Digital Transformation: Process Automation and ‘Procurement’ for QAD

In today’s competitive business environment, even small and medium sized companies are investing in Digital Transformation via process automation in efforts to reduce costs, increase efficiencies, and maintain customer satisfaction. The universal directive to businesses to “do more with less” is being increasingly satisfied through the application of software. According to a 2015 report by Gartner,…

QAD Users: Digital Transformation and the Procure to Pay Process

In this new age of Digital Transformation, organizations today understand the importance of a seamless Procure to Pay process. This process governs how an organization fulfills its day to day needs from suppliers, supported by easy-to-use requisition/ordering systems, approval workflows and reimbursement systems. It ‘closes the procurement loop’ as it enhances compliance to procurement contracts…

Agile BPI / What can your organization do during an economic downturn…?

Leading organizations are rarely satisfied with sitting tight and watching the grass grow under their feet. They are continuously looking for ways to improve and increase their competitive advantage. During an economic downturn these companies, some of them your competitors, will be looking to sharpen their business processes and adopt technology based solutions such as…

Agile BPI / How do you solve business process problems in your organization?

Talk to us…! At ISS Group we recognized the need for Business Process Improvement (BPI) solutions over two decades ago, and today, ISS Group ‘specializes‘ in delivering to the QAD EA community Agile BPI solutions. Over the past few months you may have seen our posts on LinkedIn or performed a search on Google (see below), as we’ve…

Agile BPI / QAD EA: Unmanaged Spend has created a Crisis

The challenge: Unmanaged Spend The Gartner Group states that ‘Maverick Spend’, or uncontrolled spend…at times referred to as Tail Spend, often falls below the radar of enterprise procurement policies because the transactions that constitute it are relatively small. Yet, cumulatively, these maverick transactions form a substantial sum. In many cases, enterprises are spending more in…

Agile BPI / Cost Savings – A priority in today’s economy!

Prime Advantage, a buying consortium for midsized manufacturers headquartered in Chicago, with 750 member companies and more than 125 endorsed suppliers announced the findings of its 14th edition of the Purchasing and Manufacturing Survey, revealing financial projections and procurement insights from more than 750 U.S. manufacturing companies. One of their key findings of the survey:…

QAD User Organization MTF Improves Integration to Their Suppliers

    QAD User Organization MTF Improves Integration to Their Suppliers, Digitizing the Purchasing Process to Reduce Cycle Time and Improve Supplier Relationships Morristown, NJ Challenge: The Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (MTF) is a non-profit service organization dedicated to providing clinically sound, safe allograft tissue. They are comprised of a national consortium of academic medical institutions,…

Tail-Spend Management – CFO’s finding New Saving Opportunities

Understanding Tail-spend Management Introduction World-class organizations today have a good level of control over most of their cost structure. As this visibility and control increases, eventually a point is reached when the effort required to go further appears to be greater than the benefits. At this point, CFO’s looking to find new savings opportunities, such…