32Soft - Quickly Create Product Estimates from QAD Data

Webinar

Do proposed product structure changes create a bottleneck in your bidding process?
Do you need an easy way to elevate your bidding process and provide options for BOM pricing? Is price development slowing down your new product launches?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you’ll want to watch this helpful webinar where we are joined by the team from Walbro.

In this 20-minute interactive presentation, we show you how you can perform cost simulations using real-time data from QAD – plus, add components and costs that don’t currently exist in QAD. All without changing any BOM or product structures in QAD.

Judy Gardner and Marco Estrella from Walbro share how they met the bottleneck challenges they had in creating cost scenarios with this perfect solution.

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Questions from the webinar

	Let’s say we’ve completed a new BOM simulation on the spreadsheet. Can we upload to QAD as a new product?
When we developed this solution, we worked closely with Judy and Marco at Walbro. For security reasons, they opted not to allow this solution to be able to upload to QAD so that is the way it is configured at this point. We do have a Product Structure Data Loader that updates product structures, however it loads one level at a time (parent, component). We can develop the loading mechanism on The BOM Cost Simulation solution as well, if that is your requirement.
	Say I had done some change to the Routing but had not done my Routing Cost Roll-up. Which cost is getting downloaded? Will it show the cost from the Item Master or will it show the rolled up cost?
We show the standard cost for each component and sub-component. So, if you had not yet done your Routing Cost Roll-up, that cost would not be reflected here.
	How can I get the cost of this tool?
If you are a new customer, use the Request a Quote button at the top of this page. This will bring up a menu of questions about your environment that will help us develop a cost for you and will alert us to your need. We’ll follow up directly with you from there. If you are a current customer, you can either use the button at the top of this page or send us an email directly about your need.
	When loading data into QAD, do you run it through QAD’s business logic, or do you load directly into the database?
This particular solution does not currently load data into QAD, but for other Data Loaders that do, we run validation on the data prior to the load to make sure it is correct. If there are errors, the data does not load and the errors are highlighted in red. Once you fix the errors, you can reload. We do a CIM load in the background to load the data and make sure it is accepted into QAD. You can read more about how Data Loaders work here.
	Do you maybe have a similar tool to simulate routing costs?
No, we do not at this time, but it is a very good idea and will consider that for future development.
	Does your simulation break out variable costs and fixed costs or is the only thing there total cost?
This is the first version and so far just has the standard cost, but we can work with you to develop a way to break out variable and fixed costs to make sure it meets your needs.

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