QAD Wins the Stratus Award for Cloud Company of the Year
QAD just won the 2016 Stratus Award for Cloud Company of the Year. If you're not familiar with this award, the Stratus Awards recognize companies and individuals innovating in the cloud...
Getting the Most Out of Trade Activity Management and Promotions
Trade Activity Management is Critical for Manufacturers with Retail Distribution Channels
Targeting consumers with promotions is a practice that is essential in competing in today's marketplace for manufacturers that sell products through...
Five Considerations to Address Supply Chain Risk
Now that the automotive industry has requirements for risk-based thinking (the upcoming ISO/TS 16949 due out at year-end) and risk management (MMOG/LE v4) how does your organization begin to tackle ensuring...
QAD Graduate Development: A Fast Track to Success
As you may have read in a previous post about working here is that QAD invests in its employees. Whether it’s through education, training events, mentoring or attending conferences — QAD wants to make...
BI Helps Decor Transform Raw Data to Valuable Information
Who is Decor?
Headquartered just outside of Melbourne, Australia, Decor has been manufacturing kitchenware, picnicware, gardenware, brushware and baby-care products for more than 55 years. They distribute about 450 products to major...
How Risk-Based Thinking Improves Quality in the Automotive Industry
The Importance of Quality in the Automotive Industry
With assembly lines often times running 24/7, defective parts or variations in assembly can result in lost money, production down time, decreased customer satisfaction...
MMOG/LE: The Best Plans for the Worst Case Scenario
MMOG/LE can help your company reduce inventory and freight costs and increase customer satisfaction.
Customer Showcase: A few of the best-in-class
At this past Explore in early May, we debuted four new customer showcases, each very unique in what they do, where they do it, and how they achieve success.
Medical Devices: An Industry in Transition
As we look to the future, the medical device industry faces a world of opportunity.
The Cat in the Hat and the Internet of Thing 1 and Thing 2...
It is hard to imagine anything getting more buzz in the manufacturing world than the Internet of Things (IoT). There are blogs upon blogs and articles upon articles about connecting to smart machines and devices. This connection will foster the harvesting of extreme amounts of data that will allow us to garner unparalleled understanding and push towards unprecedented benefits. IoT is the “bit of fun” that has arrived to brighten the dull manufacturing floor.