Global MMOG/LE Implementation Training - Level 1

General
Begins: Nov 14 2011 - Nov 07 2012
Ends: Nov 07 2012
Venue: AIAG, Southfield, Michigan, USA

In light of global economic challenges and vehicle fluctuation and demand, it is more important than ever to focus attention on supply chain management issues including customer requirements, capacity constraints, contingency planning, sub-tier capability, resource allocation, and employee skills. This course is designed to improve materials management efficiency and effectiveness in your supply chain leveraging the Global Materials Management Operations Guideline Logistics Evaluation (MMOG/LE). MMOG/LE is the global standard for supply chain management processes that reduces costs from errors, waste, and workload for suppliers and customers. You will learn best practices to complete the MMOG/LE assessment tool, identify gaps and prepare action plans.

Registration includes an electronic copy of the Global Materials Management Operations Guideline/Logistics Evaluation (MMOG/LE Version 3).

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Installation and Administration - QAD Enterprise Edition (ILT)

Education
Begins: May 21 2012 - May 25 2012
Ends: May 25 2012
Venue: QAD Office, Schiphol-Rijk, Holland

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Description: This course is designed to provide advanced training in the installation and administration of QAD Applications : Enterprise Edition. Topics Covered: Installation Configuration and Administration Reporting Daemons Database Administration Validation and Troubleshooting.

Intended Audience: The course is intended for technical staff, particularly technical installers, technical consultants, systems administrators and database administrators.

Pre-requisites: Students are expected to have an intermediate understanding of Progress (OpenEdge 10). In addition, students will be assigned the Prerequisites: Installation and Administration Learning Path as prework for this course.

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QAD CSS for Configurable Products

Global Webinar
Begins: May 23 2012
Ends: May 23 2012
Venue: Live, Online, Global

Webinar Details: Join us as Frank Feustel, Director Product Management at QAD, shares how QAD Customer Self Service (CSS) supports configurable products in order of enabling global manufacturers to implement mass customization strategies and provide higher customer service levels at lower inventory costs.

Sepem Industries Fair

General
Begins: Jun 05 2012 - Jun 07 2012
Ends: Jun 07 2012
Venue: Parc des Expositions de Colmar, Avenue de la Foire aux Vins, Colmar, France

Meet QAD at Sepem Industries Fair!

Sepem Industries Est is focused on buyers, manufacturing sources, industrial material, machinery, and equipment. The show offers a dual opportunity for exhibitors from all sectors of our industrial community to present their products and services and for manufacturing professionals of all levels to view the exhibits. The Colmar event is the largest industrial trade show dedicated to service, equipment, process and maintenance for Eastern France.

Event will be in French

French Value Day

Value Day
Begins: Jun 12 2012
Ends: Jun 12 2012
Venue: Bois de Boulogne, Paris, France

Join our QAD French Value Day on a historical site in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, Tuesday the 12th of June from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.

To register, please email Louise Ploquin.

Hope to see you there!

This event will be presented in French.

Enterprise Financials Fundamentals - QAD Enterprise Edition (ILT)

Education
Begins: Jun 18 2012 - Jun 22 2012
Ends: Jun 22 2012
Venue: QAD Office, Schiphol-Rijk, Holland

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Description: This course is designed to teach the basic features and functions of QAD Enterprise Financials and the business requirements to consider prior to implementation. Topics include: Key concepts, setup, process flows, as well as navigating and reporting features. The scope of the course is limited to Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and General Ledger. For further topics, please check advanced classes. Topics will be presented, discussed and then practiced with hands-on exercises. On the final day of the course, students will have the opportunity to test their understanding and knowledge by working on an extended exercise covering most of the topics discussed during the class.

Intended Audience: This class is intended for accountants, controllers, financial managers and accounting clerks, as well as QAD R&D, and Services and Support, as a first step to gain understanding of the overall QAD Financials product.

Pre-requisites: Please note that this class includes pre-work to satisfy the course prerequisite. Prior to class, prior knowledge of accounting and finance best practices is important. For those students who do not have an operational accounting or finance background, completion of the QAD On Demand (Learning Portal) course "Finance for Non-Financial People: Concepts" (Course ID# fin_non_fin_people) is mandatory prior to class.

Special Instructions for Students: The course contains extensive hands-on exercises using a Web-based, virtual training environment.

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UK Explore Roadshow - Scotland

Value Day
Begins: Jun 19 2012 - Jun 21 2012
Ends: Jun 21 2012
Venue: Ramada Glasgow Airport Hotel, Abbotsinch, UK

Can't make it to Explore in Atlanta this year? Not a problem! We are bringing the highlights to you as part of our annual Explore Roadshow:

• Hear the latest product news
• Experience live demonstrations of QAD's enhanced functionality
• Network with your peers and QAD executives
• Learn how to optimise your QAD solution

Join us on at the UK 2012 Explore Roadshow in the following locations for an informative breakfast briefing delivering the key messages from Explore 2012, QAD's premier annual event, to our customers locally!

Tuesday 19th June 2012 - Chesford Grange, Warwickshire
Wednesday 20th June 2012 - Cheadle House (De Vere Hotel), Manchester
Thursday 21st June 2012 - Ramada Glasgow Airport, Glasgow

Web Warranty

Global Webinar
Begins: Jun 20 2012
Ends: Jun 20 2012
Venue: Live, Online, Global

Webinar Details: Come and join us, as Lisa Ozkan reviews new Web Warranty functionality QAD has been developing in partnership with one of our customers. This functionality will be available for early adopters later in 2012. Web Warranty allows our customers to accept and process warranty claims submitted by their distributors and third party service provides over the web. It provides comprehensive support for the web warranty business cycle which includes submittal of claims for labor/parts/other expenses related with warranty repairs, approvals, materials management, inspection reporting, all the way to payment request.

Progress Programming (Open Edge 10) - QAD 2008 Standard/Enterprise (ILT)

Education
Begins: Jun 28 2012 - Jun 29 2012
Ends: Jun 29 2012
Venue: QAD Office, Schiphol-Rijk, Holland

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Description: QAD designed this course for programmers working with QAD Enterprise Applications code. The intent of this course is to introduce basic database and programming concepts as they apply to QAD Enterprise Applications. Additionally, basic Progress Programming syntax will be covered to include custom report writing or changes to existing reporting capability. A working view of the data structures is also presented. Course includes hands-on programming to understand key concepts, as well as sample program takeaways for later reference.

Topics Covered:

• Database and Environment
• Procedural Coding
• Working with Records
• Blocks
• Transactions & Record Scoping
• Predicates, Indexes & Field Lists
• Variables, Messages & Conversions
• Validation & Help
• Frames
• Reporting & Input/Output

Intended Audience: Beginning programmers who plan to customize reports within QAD Enterprise Applications Project managers who want to understand the fundamentals of QAD Enterprise Applications as it pertains to Progress Members of QAD Enterprise Applications implementation teams.

Prerequisites: A general understanding of QAD Enterprise Applications functions and an interest in how they work. Prior programming or database admin is suggested, but not required.

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Advanced Automotive Manufacturing India 2012

General
Begins: Jun 28 2012 - Jun 29 2012
Ends: Jun 29 2012
Venue: Courtyard by Marriott, Pune, India

At the Advanced Automotive Manufacturing India Summit, automotive industry professionals will have the opportunity to debate and benchmark with their peers and develop new strategies and plans to:

• Learn how to maximize production capacity
• Identify best practices on waste management
• Understand various ways of effective inventory management
• Uncover new technologies and understand how they will benefit the manufacturing process
• Update and understand best-practice models of lowering capital expenditure and increasing overall ROI
• Understand how to manage vendors efficiently and effectively

Excellence in Customer Service for today and tomorrow with QAD

Global Webinar
Begins: Jul 11 2012
Ends: Jul 11 2012
Venue: Live, Online, Global

Webinar Details: This webinar will focus on the issues facing businesses today in the areas of After Sales Support. Stephen Dombroski (Senior Manager-Industry Strategy Manufacturing, Vertical Marketing) and Lisa Ozkan (Senior Product Manager) will address the current issues that companies face today in providing quality customer service and how the QAD Service and Support Module and related products can assist in striving for excellence. We will begin by discussing industry positioning and vertical relevance followed by an overview of the functionality of each module in the Service and Support Suite. We will outline our current development plans for the product and discuss planned future functionality. A case study of an SSM customer will be presented to highlight the benefits of the tools and how it is used in the day to day business environment.

Enterprise Financials Advanced - QAD Enterprise Edition (ILT)

Education
Begins: Jul 16 2012 - Jul 19 2012
Ends: Jul 19 2012
Venue: QAD Office, Schiphol-Rijk, Holland

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Description: This class is designed to teach advanced features and functions of QAD Financials for QAD Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Edition. Topics include: budgeting, allocations, structures reports, consolidation, Excel integration, screen customization, and ERS. For QAD Financials fundamentals (Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, General Ledger...), check the QAD Financials Fundamentals class. Lessons will include business considerations for implementation when applicable, a presentation of the topic, and an exercise in most cases. At the end of the class, an evaluation will give you the opportunity to test your newly acquired knowledge. Topics Covered: GL coding structure, daemons, Excel integration, budgeting, allocations, structured reports, report variants, consolidation, logistics accounting, ERS, GL mask, lock box, payment format file, installation, user-defined fields, screen customization.

Intended Audience: This class is intended for accountants, controllers, financial managers and accounting clerks, as well as QAD R&D, Services and Support.

Pre-requisites: An understanding of financial principles is required to get the full benefit of this class. Students must have completed the QAD Financials Fundamentals (or equivalent) class.

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Customization - QAD Enterprise Edition (ILT)

Education
Begins: Sep 10 2012 - Sep 14 2012
Ends: Sep 14 2012
Venue: QAD Office, Schiphol-Rijk, Holland

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Description: This course is presented in two parts. Part I, Customization of Component-Based QAD Applications, covers back-end and UI front-end non-intrusive customization of QAD component-based applications. The areas covered include standard component-based functions and reports. This training is for developers/designers with Progress 4GL experience, who want to learn non-intrusive customization techniques for component-based programs and functions (typically the new financials functions). Part II, Customization using QAD Applications Features and Functions, covers the .NET UI application features that can be used by non-developers to customize both component-based and non-component based applications. This training is for developers/designers with Progress 4GL experience. Topics Covered: Agenda also available bellow under Expected Outcome Part I: Overview of the architecture, and relevance for customization Configuring your system for NI customization Typical customization cases Overview of supporting tools in the system Overview of possibilities to customize reports Part II: UI design mode in financials screens Configurable screens User-defined fields Browse features Browse maintenance Saving browse settings Operational metrics Process maps Menu system maintenance Configuration of the UI client Prerequisites: Students are expected to have an intermediate understanding of Progress (OpenEdge 10). Completion of the following on-line training classes (available on the Learning Portal) is required prior to attending this class:

• Introduction to Java and Tomcat for QAD Enterprise Edition
• Introduction to Georgia Softworks Telnet Server for QAD Enterprise Edition
• Introduction to Supported Operating Systems – QAD Enterprise Edition
• Introduction to the QAD .Net UI – QAD Enterprise Edition
• Introduction to the QAD Interoperability (QXtend) – QAD Enterprise Edition
• Introduction to the QAD Interoperability (EDI eCommerce) – QAD Enterprise Edition
• QAD Application Architecture – QAD Enterprise Edition

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QXtend Fundamentals (ILT)

Education
Begins: Sep 24 2012 - Sep 27 2012
Ends: Sep 27 2012
Venue: QAD Office, Schiphol-Rijk, Holland

Education Registration and Information

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