11:00 – 12:00 CONCURRENT TRACK SESSIONS

AMANDA GOODSON
Strategic Information Group

“Hakuna Matata” – Timon and Pumbaa. “No worries” we won’t just skim the surface of QAD’s AUX. In this session Amanda will be going into detail on, more than, a few of her favorite things. You will be sure to leave this session as the King of your AUX, knowing how to setup and use Favorites, Approval Routes, Configure Transaction Screens, Save Browse Views, Collaboration and more. Bring your pen and paper and come ready to learn! It’s sure to be a roaring good session.

JENNIFER PETROSKY / JESSE RAUCH – QAD, Inc.

Jennifer Petrosky, QAD’s Director of Life Sciences, will provide an update on the industry including regulatory issues as well including FDA validation, UDI, EUMDR, DSCSA (Drug Supply Chain Security Act) updates and more.

THOMAS REITER – QAD, Inc.

Don’t miss this opportunity to gain insights into QAD SRM and learn how to streamline the process for onboarding suppliers and managing sourcing events. Join us and discover the path to better supplier management in today’s always changing complex supply chain.

CLIFF OMAN / ANDREW HALL
Logan Consulting

Developing an IT Roadmap that supports your business strategy can be challenging. In today’s uncertain economic  and geopolitical world, more flexibility is required when accounting for the additional risks. This panel discussion will provide participants with insights into the various ways companies maximize their ERP investment while at the same time minimizing risk. What technology projects offer the biggest opportunity to increase cash flow/EBITDA?

1:30 – 2:30pm CONCURRENT TRACK SESSIONS

DON LINDSEY – 32 Soft Inc.

Getting the best price for your product or service is a complex balancing act. Your “best” price is based not just on cost but on the market, sometimes the region, and always the customer. The best price should be high enough to help you make a profit but low enough to be attractive to customers to build sales volume. QAD has many tools to help you set, manipulate, and maintain your best price, from the standard customer price list to Service and Support, supplier, specialty volume discount, and RMA Returns pricing. In this session, Don will overview these pricing options, talk about setting up price lists and analyst codes in QAD, and show you best practices for getting the most out of QAD’s pricing functionality so that it fits into your business strategy.

WALTER LITTLE – Strategic Information Grp
HASHIM ALVI – Prophix
NAVRAJ CHANNE – RefleXion

Disruptions can upend a plan. Successfully managing this challenge will require bringing all sides of the business together. Building a culture of collaboration and accountability is paramount to putting your data to work for instant visibility and insight. Join in the discussion which will include best practices for financial planning & analysis, key steps to process evolution, and one manufacturer’s story of financial transformation. Learn how to spark your own transformation to help your company be ready to react when, not if, disruption happens.

CHARLIE MARGE – QAD, Inc.

STEPHEN ROSENTHAL – PICS DocLib

DocLib has been focused on providing people-driven software solutions for companies of all sizes since its establishment in 1995. Seamlessly integrating with QAD, DocLib simplifies the accounts payable process so that you can focus on what you do best and automate the rest. 

3:00 – 4:00pm   CONCURRENT TRACK SESSIONS

JEFF STEELE – QAD, Inc.

Learn how QAD customers will benefit from continuous improvement actions and value creation backed by process mining, monitoring and predictive modeling. Customers will benefit from QAD’s global presence, 24/7 support, and portfolio of ERP and supply chain solutions. The combination of QAD’s Process Intelligence with QAD’s Adaptive Applications will deliver additional capability to enable the Adaptive Supply Chain and Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprise.

SCOTT GAINES – RxSight, Inc.

Discover the art of leveraging PowerBI for dynamic business operations in this illuminating learning session. Witness how a QAD Customer harnesses PowerBI to orchestrate real-time, agile, decision-making. Uncover the synergy as PowerBI seamlessly integrates with a spectrum of Microsoft tools, while establishing pivotal connections to QAD and other vital business datasets. The allure lies in its remarkable cost-effectiveness, user-friendly interface to empower both frontline warriors and C-suite leaders in streamlining processes and adapting strategies on the fly, ensuring a profoundly efficient ownership experience. This session emerges as an imperative for all functions aspiring to transcend their data insights and metamorphose critical information into tangible value.

JERRY PECK – QAD, Inc.

If you’re a manufacturer that imports raw materials/components to produce your finished goods, you’ll want to understand the Trade programs that are designed to allow you to reduce, defer or even completely avoid import duty & tax, together with best practice sourcing and logistics strategies. This presentation will cover four key programs & strategies – supported with real life examples from our trade practitioners – to show you how QAD’s Global Trade & Transportation Execution (“GTTE”) solutions support savvy trade-dependent companies in generating competitive advantages from their Trade operations.  

TOM OLDHAM – Cyberscience
JEREMY HELLER – Acutus Medical

Cyberquery will present a Customer Case Study showing actual usage in a real time QAD EE environment.  Also, Version 9.20 is out along with Discovery Center included – a brand new browser-based interface that provides a simple entry point into Full Cyberquery and much more. Discovery Center is a brand new way to organize your reports/dashboards, search effortlessly to find any query that you have and a light-weight Dashboard Designer that is very easy to use.

4:00 – 6:00  Sunset Reception (hosted by QAD)

8:30 – 9:30am   CONCURRENT TRACK SESSIONS

JEFF STEELE – QAD, Inc.

You’ve been running QAD for a lo-o-ong time and know the insides and infrastructure like the back of your hand. QAD’s AUX is the next generation of user interface and looks like it offers some pretty interesting things. But how does it really work?  Yes, it’s cloud-based which means less work for you, but you’ll still need to understand how everything fits together so you can explain it to the rest of your company. In this session, Jeff Steele will lift the covers on AUX to show you how things have transitioned from Net UI to AUX… what’s new, what’s important, where the moving parts are, and how it all fits together. He’ll also point out some of the new features you should plan on taking advantage of. You’ll leave this session with a better understanding of what your life will be like with when you upgrade to AUX.

ROBERT McNEW – Olli Salumeria
DOUG STRACH – California Natural Products
BRYAN HOFFMAN – Straus Family Creamery
WALID BOUSTANI – Diamond Wipes
Moderator: MATT CRABTREE (QAD Redzone)

As the #1 connected workforce solution in manufacturing, QAD Redzone enables frontline teams to contribute their full potential, elevating the frontline with new technology to achieve company goals around productivity and throughput. Join us for a panel discussion with our customers to learn what the QAD Redzone customer journey entails and see how these manufacturers have transformed their shop floor productivity and culture, achieving miraculous results in just 90 days!

MADDI KREIGER – QAD, Inc.

Don’t miss this opportunity to gain insights into FTZs and learn how to unlock their full potential for your business. Join us and discover the path to increased competitiveness, streamlined operations, and significant cost savings.

WALTER LITTLE – Strategic Information Group
ANDREW WEINSTEIN – ISS Group
AARON DEETER – Phocas Software
HECTOR LOPEZ – Modular Assemblies

In this presentation you’ll hear about a Buyers’ Dashboard that will pull together all of the necessary data and presented it in a clear, actionable format. Listen to how MAI uses the solution to effectively automate a process that previously took up to 40 hours per month resulting in a real-time window into their entire supplier ecosystem, with key metrics and insights at their fingertips allowing a more proactive approach to supply chain management and improved supplier performance. And because they no longer spend so much time on manual data gathering and manipulation, they are able to focus on more strategic initiatives to drive operational improvements down the road!

10:00 – 11:00am   CONCURRENT TRACK SESSIONS

“If you Build It, They Will Come!” – Field of Dreams. Are you tired of working for your data and want your data to work for you? Concerns about data accuracy or human error in your reporting? Let QAD be your one point of truth, so you can spend less time building reports and spend more time making better business decisions based on the data. Step up to the plate and join Amanda as she shows you how to build Visualizations and an Action Center of your dreams. Strategic Information Group wants to help you knock it out of the park!

Portable, mobile data collection is critical to ensuring that transactions are reported to QAD accurately in real-time. Material identification with labeling is essential for internal tracking and satisfying customer requirements. In this session, we will discuss the necessary data collection hardware, software, implementation and deployment strategies to ensure success with these technologies. We will discuss data collection project metrics and lessons learned from an Eagle/QAD implementation at iRhythm Technologies.

STEPHANIE MURRAY
ERIC WILSON
Institute of Business Forecasting

The evolving landscape of demand planning, business forecasting, and supply chain planning. Gain practical strategies and learn from real-world examples to enhance your forecasting capabilities. Explore the concepts of Demand and Business Forecasting Reset and learn how to leverage predictive analytics to drive strategic decision-making.

BRUCE LeBEL – ProStar Software
ADRIENNE MAURER – Superior Essex

Savings, integration, and compliance. Our focus in this case study with Superior Essex will be on educating QAD users on the payment card acceptance process, and where there are hidden costs (like interchange optimization for B2B.) We will also touch upon the importance of PCI DSS compliance and the rollout of 4.0 requirements. Learn about money that most businesses are leaving on the table and how payment processing costs have been substantially reduced with CCI+EC and support from ProStar.

11:30 – 12:30pm   CONCURRENT TRACK SESSIONS

In an integrated system like QAD, every piece of data touches and impacts something else. But what gets touched, and what’s the impact if you change something? In this session Tanya will take a look at how data integrity impacts your daily operations and look at the impacts of bad data on MRP, operations, inventory levels, and the rest of your supply chain. Special attention will be paid to MRP planning and input data including min/max/multi order quantities, safety stock and time, lead times, and more.

KHOA TO
Systemize Partners

Learn about the emerging trend in Manufacturing replacing the traditional MRP status quo that is embedded in every ERP system available on the market today. This technical educational presentation is intended to provide you with an overview of Factory Physics which has been adopted by companies around the globe. This session is for the Manufacturing management, Supply Chain, and engineering professionals to prepare them on the future manufacturing and materials planning trends.

MICHAEL TEW – QAD Precision

In today’s business climate, supply chain solutions need to help companies respond to change, delivering fit over time by rapidly supporting new business requirements. The QAD ELEVATE Program embodies agility by enabling an upgrade to the latest versions of all QAD cloud solutions through a rapid, low-cost, automation-powered approach. Pre-packaged migration tools and a remote delivery model refined and validated during the pandemic make conventional cost and timeline concerns negligible compared to QAD Supply Chain solution’s proven ROI. The QAD ELEVATE Program is a value-driven approach to quickly achieve the benefits of QAD Supply Chain solutions. Advisory services, automation, on-demand training and dedicated global teams minimize the implementation timeline and effort while maximizing the gains of working with advanced technology. Join our session to learn more!

WALTER LITTLE – Strategic Information Group
MARK PENSERINI – CorPay

Strategic’s Enterprise Banking Solution (EBS) infuses QAD with a myriad of high-efficiency features to expedite banking interactions and automate financials such as accounts payable, powered by Corpay. You’ll see how many EBS users have generated significant ROI by eliminating manual banking processes, including AP, to maximize working capital while gaining financial processing efficiency and productivity.

12:30   Closing Luncheon / Raffle & Prize Giveaways

QAD Redzone Plant Tour: Olli Salumeria (1:30pm)
WECUG attendees are invited on a private Plant Tour to see what QAD Redzone looks like in action. During this event, you will take a private tour of the Olli Salumeria plant and see how they are delivering ‘Productivity NOW’.  Spend the afternoon with your peers and see how QAD Redzone’s connected workforce solution, together with a focused coaching program, transformed the shop floor productivity AND culture at Olli Salumeria.

Transportation will be provided from the Seabird Resort.
To RSVP / for additional information, please contact Carolyn Arndt: [email protected]