If you are a Supply Chain or IT Professional using the QAD Enterprise Application (EA) and are responsible for setting up Items in QAD, you know the challenge that can be, especially if multiple people within your organization need to be involved in the process. You know that for certain types of Items there are…

QAD Users can now Charge a PO to multiple Cost Centers and GL Accounts Is your organization creating multiple unnecessary Purchase Orders because the PO needs to be charged to different Cost Centers and GL Accounts setup in QAD? In this recorded how-to presentation we demonstrated how your organization can use ISS Group’s iPurchase™ PO…

Why is configuring YOUR companies Business Rules within an Approval and Workflow solution important to you and your organization? – Automate Policy – Enforce Process Control – Reduce Communication Lag – Standardize Procedures Automatic routing and approval of business rules give you operational efficiency as well as an audit trail and record keeping.  Approvers can…

How can you improve Purchase Order cycle time? Each time you’re confronted with an important decision there is mental tension. This can lead to fatigue and stress. Harvard Business Review recommends the use of routines to reduce decision making. For instance, if you are a morning person, then get the difficult decisions out of the…

Workflow flexibility and agility on a global scale, knowledge work redesign, and workflow speed are the way organizations can maintain an agile workflow and survive this decade, according to Harvard Business Review. An agile business process improvement and workflow helps organizations control their business processes. For example, a company that rents equipment can avoid hidden costs due to…

The old way – business process management – moved at the speed of a caterpillar, resulting in methodically and bureaucratically slow solutions. Today’s Agile business process improvement is more like a butterfly – able to move in any direction that will produce the best and fastest results. Here’s what we know today about Agile BPI versus traditional business…

If the egg didn’t meet Peter Carol Faberge’s exacting standards, he would smash it with a mallet. Recently a Faberge egg was priced at $32 million. Imagine if someone could have retrieved one of Faberge’s rejects. No mallets are needed when your goal is to improve overall process controls. By using a web-based digitization process…

Businesses increasingly must think of purchasing and procurement activities in terms of value, efficiency, and overall return on investment (ROI). Cost savings are a given. But to be a top performer, procurement staff must generate many times the investment and cost of their supply management assets, according to SupplyManagement.com. A fast and effective way to…

By the end of 2014, eProcurement is a definite Must-Have. eProcurement has transformed enterprises, improving corporate efficiency and collaboration with just skeletal staff. Web-based solutions make deployment to hundreds of users quick and simple. Utilization is quick – leading to rapid ROI. eCommerce shopping with your major suppliers, supplier catalog management, and rules-based approval routing are…

The cost of managing paper! Companies spend more than $200 billion each year on office paper expenditures. Digitizing business processes to connect people via the Cloud, mobile devices, and social networks can improve overall corporate efficiency. There is the money saved on paper – some 10,000 pages a year per office worker. But more importantly, companies…

As the Harvard Business Review notes in a classic paper on global manufacturing strategy, the chief goal is to manage large differences at the border. Manufacturers can do this through global process standardization. Are you confident in your company’s process standardization? Collaboration with ISS and its Business Process Orientation Benchmarking Assessment is one way to…

  U.S. manufacturing continues to expand with 15 consecutive months of growth, according to the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). As one manufacturer reported, “Business is solid…Awesome!” As the manufacturing sector grows, the clear winners in the race for market share will be those with the most efficient and connected organizations. The simplest way to…

Well, it was almost instant. That was the first message sent by Morse’s telegraph system in 1844. Prior to that, communication could take months and connectivity beyond one’s town was about nonexistent. Today’s connectivity power of the Internet can put manufacturers in touch with suppliers and buyers anywhere in the world at any moment. Our…

This past summer, the University of Louisville learned the hard way what can happen with financial process controls are lax or MIA: six employees were accused with taking school money or grant funds when an audit uncovered evidence of embezzlement. In our experience, companies that have the right business process optimization can improve their financial controls,…