Presented by: Strategic Information Group and Prophix

Transitioning to what’s next for your finance team’s technology stack

Join Strategic and Prophix on June 27th at 2pm ET for an enlightening webinar to explore the integration of generative AI and platform-centric technologies to help elevate the financial and accounting processes for the Office of the CFO. We want you to think differently about how you leverage technology to support the business in a way that will provide financial insights that are not just data points, but a cohesive narrative driving your company’s growth.

We’ll discuss how AI is modernizing financial operations with specific use cases for improving FP&A processes, as well as look at the benefits of transitioning to a platform-centric technology stack to not only help streamline the number of software vendors to manage, but also simplify and streamline data integrations and security management.

During this session, we’ll uncover:

• How AI applications can supercharge your FP&A processes to set new standards for efficiency and accuracy.

• How machine learning to identify transaction anomalies is an excellent step towards mitigating risk and making more informed decisions.

• How to move beyond disjointed systems by leveraging the advantages of platform-based software that can unify business insights and streamline operations.

**Attendees of this webinar who participated in polls and survey are eligible to earn 1 hour of CPE credit**

As manufacturers and professionals involved in quality control, you’re aware of the constant pressure to cut costs and improve profit margins. Unfortunately, this sometimes leaves little budget for quality. But meeting customer demands and industry regulations while minimizing waste and avoiding product recalls demands effective quality control. These challenges present a significant hurdle for manufacturers, especially when combined with the need for faster product iterations and cost management.

Join Dave Rendel, Senior Solution Architect from Strategic Information Group, on June 13, 2024, at 2PM EDT for a webinar, Transforming Quality into a Competitive Edge With the Right QMS.  We’ll explore how implementing and leveraging the right quality strategy and quality management system (QMS) can tackle these obstacles and enable you to provide dependable and compliant products and services that consistently meet demand and delight customers.

This will lead to a significant competitive advantage for your organization. 

Gain valuable insights on:

• Reducing the risk of poor quality
  Learn how cost avoidance of poor quality results in improved revenues

• Properly allocating and reducing the cost of quality
  How to optimize operations/workflows, reduce failure costs, reduce time spent on document revisions and approvals

• Increasing customer satisfaction and brand loyalty to drive revenue
  Higher-quality products drive customer satisfaction and loyalty

• Realizing gains from continuous improvement across multiple product lines
  Bring products to market faster and deliver new revenue streams

Take this opportunity to explore how implementing effective quality processes along with the appropriate QMS can transform your organization’s performance to ensure sustained success and growth. Don’t miss out on this invaluable webinar to boost competitive advantage and help revolutionize your approach to quality control.

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Challenges such as rising inflation and interest rates, talent shortages, and a lack of real-time data can hinder business operations. Many environments today are burdened by extensive spreadsheets, leading to overwrites, deletions, lost versions, and significant confusion. Effectively addressing these challenges necessitates bringing all aspects of the business together. Creating a culture of collaboration and accountability is crucial for leveraging data to gain immediate visibility and insights.

Engage in the conversation on how a financial performance platform can help businesses be more agile through data integrations, automation, and workflows. Join Hashim Alvi and Rachel Chung from Prophix, and Walter Little from Strategic, to hear best practices for financial planning and analysis, highlighting the critical steps to process evolution, and share one manufacturer’s firsthand experience of financial transformation. Discover how you can ignite your own transformation to ensure your company is prepared to respond quickly amidst rapidly evolving economic conditions.

Webinar: Future-Proof Your Financial Performance to Guard Against Disruption   

Date: Thursday, February 22nd, 2024 

Time: 2:00 PM Eastern 

Do You Need to Optimize Operational Performance at Your Company? Benchmark Your Financial Processes With a free Financial Performance Assessment from Prophix!

A Powerful Dashboard to Boost Supplier Performance

Are your suppliers delivering goods on time and in compliance? Do you have access to the necessary information to communicate effectively with your suppliers about their performance in terms of material delivery, purchase order confirmation, invoice accuracy, and more? Are your buyers equipped with timely purchase order delivery information to prevent costly disruptions in your production processes?

If not, the iPurchase™ Buyer’s Dashboard, powered by the Phocas Business Intelligence Solution, and the Strategic Connector, can solve these challenges. This newly released tool tracks supplier performance and provides actionable information with the click of a button, to greatly improve operations and help avoid costly disruptions.

Join Andrew Weinstein, President of ISS Group; Aaron Deeter from Phocas Software; Walter Little from Strategic Information Group; and Hector Lopez from Modular Assembly Innovations (MAI) as they discuss and demonstrate how the newly released iPurchase™ Buyer’s Dashboard will replace manual spreadsheet preparation and analysis at MAI, to recover valuable hours, and provide significant savings. 

Discover how the iPurchase™ Buyer’s Dashboard can help optimize your supply chain and enhance Supplier performance.

Webinar: Actionable Analytics to Improve Supplier Performance    

Date: Thursday, January 25th, 2024 

Time: 2:00 PM Eastern 

You owe it to yourself to unwrap the gifts you may have missed in recent QAD announcements and releases. This December our webinar focuses on Extensions, Action Centers, and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), which are presents that will help you with your journey to O3.  

As usual, we have been actively implementing the most current QAD versions and assisting clients from around the globe in their pursuit of operational efficiency with ERP.

Join us to explore visions of extending your QAD application and tools to help pave the way to sugar plum functionality on your journey to QAD O3.

Improve Your EDI Solution and Significantly Reduce Costs

Strategic Information Group is Your Answer for EDI Full-Service Solutions

Webinar:  Achieving Maximum Value from EDI

You recognize the contribution EDI and QAD’s eCommerce make to a successful supply chain and manufacturing efficiency.  Keeping productivity up while keeping costs down is critical.  Strategic Information Group’s EDI solution set can help with:

• SIG EDI, a single map translation utility, allows the transference of EDI directly into QAD eCommerce to eliminate the need for a costly translation service.

• SIG EDI removes multiple layered components from a typical EDI configuration thereby reducing potential failure points and risk of interruption.

• Strategic’s EDI Service Team (eSERV), who can take the burden of EDI implementation, optimization and maintenance off your in-house team to free them for other inititives.

Webinar: Achieving Maximum Value From EDI   

Date: Thursday, September 7th, 2023 

Time: 2:00 PM Eastern 

 Improve profitability and cash flow with modern tech for QAD Finance Leaders

In a world where the pace of change is constantly accelerating, businesses need to quickly adapt to thrive, which means the finance function must evolve to meet current challenges. Adopting a modern technology solution will empower finance leaders to navigate risks quickly, move with confidence, boost profitability, and effectively control costs.

Melissa Harrell Frey from Prophix and Walter Little from Strategic explored best practices for strategic financial planning and analysis, and uncovered seven steps to process evolution.

Strategic and Prophix have partnered to offer you Prophix’s innovative Financial Performance Management (FPM) software which integrates seamlessly with QAD.   This proven platform allows business leaders to budget, plan, consolidate and report automatically for quick and effortless evaluation of profitability KPIs by facility, product line, product, project, etc.

Learn how QAD Finance Leaders can:

• Mitigate risk by developing what-if scenarios to improve decision making and reaction time

• Improve profitability by generating a forecast that reflects changing market conditions

• Facilitate a collaborative approach to departmental cash flow monitoring

• Self-serve with interactive dashboards to keep your finger on the pulse in real-time

• Gain greater visibility into how strategic plans align with operational budgets and forecasts

Webinar: Supercharge QAD with Financial Performance Automation   

Date: Thursday, June 22nd, 2023 

Time: 2:00 PM Eastern 

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A Dashboard to Improve Decision Making

Thank you for joining Strategic, ISS Group, and Phocas on April 27th at 2 PM Eastern for an in-depth webinar that features the new dashboard that has been developed to visually represent data from QAD and ISS Data-Driven approval routing technology. This dashboard has been created by utilizing Phocas Analytics and Strategic’s custom Data Adaptor. The purpose of the dashboard is to provide companies with a clear and concise view of their data, allowing them to make informed decisions and take appropriate actions.

We also heard from a customer who has worked with these solutions to design a custom dashboard. The customer shared their experience of how this solution would have saved hours over previous workflows and discuss how the dashboard helps improve decision-making processes and increase return on investment.

This presentation provides valuable insights for companies who are looking to streamline their data management processes and enhance their decision-making capabilities. It demonstrates the power of combining advanced analytics tools like Phocas with custom data adaptors to create a comprehensive data visualization solution.

Webinar: Improved Procurement Visibility with Integrated Analytics Dashboards     

Date: Thursday, April 27th, 2023 

Time: 2:00 PM Eastern 

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Achieve Next-Level Effectiveness with ERP and QMS Integration 

Work smarter, not harder. It’s the mantra of manufacturers everywhere. Who doesn’t want lower material costs, faster time-to-market, better supplier communication, and invoicing? The list goes on. So why is it that so many organizations are missing out on the opportunity to achieve next-level effectiveness through integrating a Quality Management System (QMS) with QAD? 

Thank you for joining Strategic on March 16th at 2 PM Eastern for an in-depth webinar where we discussed the benefits of integrating ETQ Reliance® QMS with QAD. Experts detailed the hidden costs of maintaining siloed systems and took a deep dive demo into Receiving Inspection integration between QAD and ETQ Reliance® that leverages QAD’s receiving functionality with ETQ’s sampling-based inspection capabilities. You saw first-hand how the process is streamlined by achieving the right level of inspection while ensuring inventory status is up to date without duplication of data entry and manual handoffs, so that non-conforming material is detected and dispositioned as early as possible. 

The right QMS not only reduces risk but also boosts your competitive advantage by achieving next-level effectiveness.  

Webinar: ERP and QMS Integration for Enhanced Collaboration, Efficiency, and Visibility  

Date: Thursday, March 16th, 2023 

Time: 2:00 PM Eastern 

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It’s that time again.  Strategic’s own Amy Vasquez and Amanda Goodson are back to bring you their favorite QAD gifts of the year with our popular holiday-themed webinar.  

Thank you to everyone who joined us on December 15 to get the scoop on the innovative new modules and major product enhancements available in the latest releases of QAD. They’re designed to deliver advanced technologies to increase efficiencies, usability, and insights to manufacturing enterprises like yours. 

Amy and Amanda’s Favorite Gifts in QAD 2022 Releases: 

• Unwrapping Action Centers and Analytics

  • Deck the halls with drill-throughs, available actions, and more to improve efficiency 

• Cozying up to Adaptive UX

  • Shining lights on continued additions and enhanced functionality 

• Jingling the Bells of QAD Digital Commerce

  • Joy to staying competitive and improving customer satisfaction 

• Rockin’ Around Lot Trace Workbench

  • Believe it – You can view the issues AND take action! 

• Our Holly Jolly Favorites from Recent Releases

  • Festive enhancements to Budgets and Financial Allocations, for instance

You owe it to yourself to find out what you have been missing in recent QAD releases. As always, we’ve been busy implementing the latest QAD versions — and pleasantly surprising clients worldwide with gifts of improved usability and operational efficiency. 

Improve accuracy and streamline operations

Mitigate the risk of production interruptions and reduce costs

Boost your bottom Line

With supply chain disruptions and rising costs causing challenges for manufacturers, the last thing you need is production downtime affecting profitability. Automating ERP operations with mobility can mitigate the risk of downtime for critical production and warehousing activities. Additionally, mobility allows you to process QAD shop floor data in real-time to improve accuracy and streamline operations.

If you have put off enhancing your ERP operations with mobility due to fear of high-cost, long-term and disruptive implementation, or complex integration processes, think again. You’ll see how easily your goals can be reached to can add more value to the business than ever.

We’ll address all your questions and concerns regarding ERP Automation Solutions and mobility. We’ll go through the steps involved, technology requirements, resources, expertise needed—and more.

We’ve partnered with mobility expert Strategic Mobility Group (SMG3) to bring you an end-to-end solution that can be implemented in weeks, not months.

You’ll come away with new knowledge of how ERP Automation Solutions and mobility can mitigate the risk of production interruptions, reduce costs, and ultimately boost your bottom line.

And you’ll learn about how the partnership between Strategic and SMG3 puts it all within reach.

Staying competitive in this new reality of constricted supply chains and rising costs is compelling manufacturers across the spectrum to deeply examine internal business processes. With the ERP being the lifeblood of manufacturing, ensuring your ERP delivers business-critical decision-making data where and when it’s needed is fundamental to success.

Putting off migrating to the Cloud may no longer be an option, as the benefits of Cloud-based ERP—increased user satisfaction, real-time analytics, access from anywhere, and lower operating costs, among others—are invaluable in today’s business environment.

But there is good news! There are more options than ever to take the leap to the Cloud, and in our Thursday, October 6 webinar, Options to Migrate Your ERP to the Cloud Now, we’ll take a look at the various approaches, and the pros and cons of each, including:

• Phased approaches that include upgrades and customizations

• ‘Lift and shift’ solutions to quickly move an application to the cloud without redesign

• Realignment versus Conversion approaches

The typical objections to moving to the cloud—lack of resources, cost, and time—can be readily overcome with a migration strategy that meets the unique needs of your business and your budget.

Whether you’re a global manufacturing enterprise or a small or mid-sized manufacturer, being tax compliant is critical to growing your business and avoiding costly penalties for non-compliance. Learn how with Avalara tax solutions and Strategic, you can achieve end-to-end tax compliance and exemption certificate management that scales with your business. 

In our Tuesday, August 23 webinar, Understanding the Complexity and Risks of Tax Compliance, you’ll see real-world tax compliance challenges that manufacturers just like you have encountered and how the right tools and solutions enabled them to achieve end-to-end tax compliance and avoid these common mistakes: 

• Failure to report consumer use tax – especially tax-exempt sales 

• Missing or expired exemption certificates and other document errors 

• Being unaware of ever-changing tax laws and tax rates, resulting in errors 

With delays in the supply chain, reduced logistics operations, and all the other manufacturing challenges you’re facing, it can be tricky to stay on top of the reporting requirements and complexities of tax compliance. That’s where our partner Avalara comes in. Together, we want to make sure you have the tools you need to always be up-to-date with changing tax compliance regulations. 

I find AvaTax, Avalara Returns, and now Avalara Consumer Use to be excellent products.

CEO, Medical Device Manufacturer

• Webinar: Understanding the Complexity and Risks of Tax Compliance

• Date: Tuesday, August 23, 2022

• Time: 2:00 PM ET

Join Strategic and ETQ on July 14 at 2PM Eastern for a discussion of how the right Quality Management System (QMS) not only reduces risk but also boosts your competitive advantage. You’ll also learn about ETQ’s phased approach to quality management that supports your business growth, beginning with easing the transition from paper-based and other manual processes. You will hear how this approach to the Quality Journey has allowed customers to thrive, achieving documented ROI at every stage. The four phases include:

• Ignite: Build a strong foundation, streamline processes and manage documents and training, mitigating the risk and waste that come with manual processes.

• Accelerate: Enable process flows between functions and systems to leverage data everywhere and produce actionable information.

• Expand and Transform: Integrate internal and external stakeholders, especially suppliers, into the quality process and extend the program. Unlock competitive advantages by becoming more proactive and focusing on strategic and consistent operational excellence.

You owe it to yourself to see how choosing the right QMS and taking the proper first steps in the Quality Journey can make all the difference in your long-term success.

Join us on May 11th for a webinar with ISS Group and Mike Gruber of TrellisWare Technologies to learn about Data-Driven Approval Routing and Workflow Solutions for QAD. We will present a Case Study on the implementation of one such solution for TrellisWare — iPurchaseTM

TrellisWare Case Study Highlights:

• Seamless Integration between iPurchase and the QAD Enterprise Asset Management module, EAM, for BI reporting

• Benefits/efficiencies achieved from Data-Driven Approval Routing and Workflow functionality

• How TrellisWare is utilizing iPurchase for MRO and Employee Expense Requisitions

• Efficiencies achieved by integrating iPurchase with SAP Concur, an employee expense management solution

Register to learn how this and other ISS Group’s Data-Driven Approval Routing and Workflow Solutions utilize QAD data points for generating Process Improvements in Purchasing, Finance, Inventory Control, Sales, and Production.

Examples of process improvements achieved by a variety of clients:

• Reduced process time and costs through process standardization

• Process approval status visibility and tracking

• Elimination of redundant data entry and paper forms

• Reduced auditing costs

**Validates to FDA standards and meets requirements for SOX Compliance!

Don’t miss this valuable event to learn how Data-Driven Approval Routing and Workflow solutions can save time and money for your organization!

Join us on March 9 at 2 PM Eastern for Strategic’s own Amy Vasquez, Senior Solutions Architect, and QAD CRM Expert. Save your seat to see a demonstration and hear how the value and benefits of this exciting new version of the QAD CRM module can help you build trust and improve customer satisfaction with 360-degree visibility into prospects and customers.

In this webinar, you’ll learn about the value of key features like:

• Easy access to customer information in one place, including quotes, invoices, receivables, sales history, and more…

• An intuitive graphical view of sales performance, funnel, and activities using pre-defined sales KPIs to measure responsiveness and close rates.

• Key integrations with MS Outlook and others to facilitate communications and track events.

• Customizable auto alerts that keep the sales cycle on track.

You owe it to yourself to see how QAD Cloud CRM can help your organization become more customer-focused—and more profitable.

And since you may have holiday PTO these days, why not refresh yourself on last year’s What’s New in 2020 while you’re preparing for the Holidays? View the 2020 Webinar Recording Here.

Then, don’t forget to click back here to register for this December 9, 2021 webinar, featuring the functional and technical expertise of Strategic’s own Amy Vasquez and Amanda Goodson!

Amy and Amanda’s Favorite Gifts in QAD 2021 Releases:

• Unwrapping Adaptive UX
  Gifts of continued additions and enhanced functionality

• Cozying up to Improved Usability
  Fun with drill-throughs, available actions, and eSignatures to improve efficiency

• Decking the Halls with Modules Now Included with QAD Core Cloud Bundle
  EAM, TAM, Configurator and more!

• Shining Lights on Our Favorite Improvements in Recent Releases
  Mobile Platform, CRM, Analytics — to name a few!

You owe it to yourself to find out what you may have been missing in recent QAD releases. For most of 2021, we’ve been busy implementing the latest QAD versions—and pleasantly surprising clients worldwide with gifts of improved usability and operational efficiency.

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Phocas’s easy-to-use business and financial analytics solution allow professionals to work securely and collaboratively across departments. It has never been easier to ditch the spreadsheets and alleviate budgeting headaches to analyze and improve financial performance.

With quick implementations, ease of use, and pre-built integrations, Strategic has partnered with Phocas to offer analytics solutions specifically engineered to enhance QAD. Drive your manufacturing business with the data analytics you need to alleviate budgeting headaches, power operations, delve into financial performance, and make quick course corrections to keep small problems small and ensure opportunities are actionable.

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Invoice processing is an area that can provide transformational benefits to manufacturers’ to lower costs. But how exactly? By automating your accounts payable processes, your organization is empowered to:

• Eliminate manual data entry

• Improve accuracy and processing speed

• Leverage the power of your ERP

To learn more, join Strategic and our partner PICs DocLib for insight into how using DocLib AP automation workflows for no-PO and PO-based invoice processing can be a smart move for your business.

You’ll hear from experts, get a demo, and hear a customer explain the dramatic real-world benefits their company achieved by adopting touchless invoice processing through AP automation.

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With the explosion of cloud adoption, some forget the business needs of companies with on premises data. Integrating cloud data with on-premise data can be a complex chore, especially to do it both safely and efficiently.

And what if you want to tap a SQL database for your QAD analytics and reporting? Or replicate your data in real time to use in the latest reporting tools? All good questions.

Join Strategic and our partners from Adaptivity for an in-depth webinar discussing the many benefits of real-time replication of your QAD and Progress OpenEdge® data to cloud-based SQL Server using AzureOE. Expert insights will help you better understand how to overcome data connectivity challenges, all while keeping pace with evolving technical-cloud and hybrid-cloud requirements.

By the end of the webinar, you’ll understand the many benefits of using AzureOE for your data replication, including:

• Assured Delivery between QAD (Progress OpenEdge) and SQL Server in the Azure® Cloud

• Safe and highly secure transactions processed in through AMQP and SAS

• Powerful performance even with heavy data loads

• Reporting options, like PowerBI, Qlik, Tableau, Excel, and more!

• Cloud benefits and easy access

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