Coping with Growing Supply Chain Complexity
With all of the changes experienced by the consumer products industry over the last several years, older methods for matching supply to demand are no longer as effective as they used...
Manufacturing Food: Do You Know How Pet Food and Treats are Made?
Have you ever seen the show, "How It's Made?" It's a fun look at the manufacturing process of many of the products we use every day. In my role, as manager...
Are Self-Driving Cars and Ride-Sharing the Future? The Consumer Will Decide
The one constant that is actually gleaned from marketing insight is that ultimately it's the consumer who will decide what they will consume, and, just as importantly, how they will consume...
IATF 16949:2016: All the Resources You Need in One Place
I take risk in the supply chain very seriously, so if you’re an automotive manufacturer, I want to keep you up to date on upcoming changes. On October 3, 2016, IATF...
Make Sure the “I” in KPI Indicates “Impact”
Every manufacturer has instituted key performance indicator (KPIs) metrics intended to establish baseline performance levels and monitor efforts for improvements. Individual KPIs are often championed by one segment of the organization...
Career Education: QADer for a Day
We recently hosted a group of students from the Santa Barbara High School Computer Science (SBHS CS) Academy at our corporate headquarters for a day of career education. Our leaders have...
DIFOT: The Key to Positive Customer Relationships
Stephen Covey, author of "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," once wrote about the concept of the "Emotional Bank Account." It's the idea that everything you say or do to...
Customer Success in Action
This marks the fourth year in a row that we’ve featured customer showcase videos at Explore. As customer success marketing manager, it’s one of my favorite — and most rewarding —...
Comvita’s Sweet Success with Channel Islands
Comvita is a well-known producer of manuka honey based in New Zealand, a long-term QAD customer and now a QAD Channel Islands early adopter. Channel Islands, QAD’s next generation user experience,...
Could You be a Contract Manufacturing Jedi?
What if I told you you had the potential to be a Jedi, if you could only learn to tap into the full capacity of your mind? Well, you can't because...