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| Introducing Expandable v9.0 |
| The upcoming release of Expandable holds significant technology and feature enhancements designed to extend its usefulness and benefit users across your organization. This session previews the many new features, including user interface workflow designer, windows themes inheritance, the new version of Report Manager, C24, double-byte data elements supporting Unicode multi-languages and more. |
| Is Backflushing for Me? |
| Backflushing is a lean manufacturing technique that can be used as an alternative to creating and maintaining jobs. In this session Bob Amalfitano of Expandable presents an overview of the backflushing process while providing pros and cons to help you decide if backflushing and the just in time philosophy is a good fit for your manufacturing operation. |
| The Features and Benefits of Expandable's New Quality Module |
Expandable is readying to release its new optional module that adds a Quality tab to the system main menu. This session provides a detailed overview of the new Quality module features and functionality. Included will be setting up Quality Material Processing Control, incoming material quarantines & inspection, material review, return to vendor/supplier, destruction and quality team user rights. In support of the quality material management are new quality specific storeroom types, quality transactions, embedded quality document attachments, automatic email notifications by transaction type and three level quality control team user rights. |
| Finance and Month End Closing Roundtable |
Expandable's Jeannie Fitzgerald chairs this special interest group (SIG) discussion focusing on finance, accounting and month end close issues, including Expandable's new Real-time GL feature.
This forum is key to sharing tips and tricks with peers and identifying techniques practiced by the most experienced users. Bring your questions, comments and tips. |
| Introducing Expandable ERP Integration for AssurX CATSWeb |
AssurX’s CATSWeb® is a flexible, all-in-one software solution that automates quality management, risk & regulatory compliance related processes so issues can be globally managed—from detection to corrective action to trend analysis. It helps collect, organize, analyze and share information to better manage and improve quality and compliance performance everywhere in your enterprise.
The CATSWeb platform provides a powerful Quality Management System in addressing the government regulated Life Sciences businesses and industry self regulated quality requirements. Expandable has partnered with AssurX integrating some of the key quality functionality for regulated and self regulated businesses in bringing Medical Customer Complaint management, Manufacturing Non-Conformance, Supplier Quality and CAPA management. All functionality has choices of management Simple to full Eight Discipline (8D) approach to handling and management of issues with full traceable auditing.
This session discusses and demonstrates these functions, integration touch points and the power of the CATSWeb product in supporting both regulated and industry quality validations. |
| Using Excel with Expandable Data and SQL Server Reporting & Data Analysis Tools (part1) |
| Microsoft SQL Server is shipped with Analysis Services and Reporting Services, two powerful tools that can be used to explore and analyze your Expandable transactional data. In this session Kevin Prim of Expandable provides an overview of tools included in SQLServer with a focus on connecting to the database using Excel as your presentation layer to view, sort and examine data. Also discussed will be the concept of creating a unified data model accessible through Analysis Services that holds the potential to transform Excel into an enterprise-level data analysis tool. |
| Be a Quality Performer by Knowing Your Expandable User Resources |
| From the support hotline to user documentation to consulting services, Expandable provides a wealth of support resources to help customers get the most out of the system. In this session Jeannie Fitzgerald of Expandable provides a thorough examination of all the resources at your disposal, including the differences between the various flavors of user documentation (user guides vs support notes vs workflows, etc.), on-site and custom training, consulting options and all the documentation available on the Customer Resource Center. |
| Data Cube Analysis using OLAP, Excel and Analysis Services (part 2) |
| Kevin Prim of Expandable has created a set of data cubes that can be accessed through OLAP using Excel to view, drill into and analyze Expandable data. It’s Excel pivot tables taken to a whole new level. In this session tailored to the advanced user, Kevin employs data cubes to illustrate the power and potential of Analysis Services for doing business intelligence and data analysis using Excel with tools that ship with SQL Server. |
| Tailoring Inquiries to the Way You Work |
Expandable supplies a wealth of options for viewing information in the system. Deciding on which is the right option for the job at hand can be confusing when trying to choose between QBE, a Crystal report or an inquiry. In this session Stacy Sutton of NeoMatrix sorts out the power of QBE and inquires versus reports and shows how many of your reporting and inquiry options can be customized to present just the information you want, in the order you want it. This session is a user-to-user explanation of customizing your inquiries, including rearranging columns in inquiry grids, adding selection criteria and data elements to the inquiry grid, using inquiry results as reports and more. |
| Quality In - Quality Out |
| Doing things right the first time is a universal emblem of quality that leads to continued high levels of success and productivity. In this session, John Buller of Expandable identifies ways to use the built-in quality features in Expandable to facilitate better visibility of quality-management issues. Included will be examples of how the quality management process starts before product even gets to the dock, and an explanation of how using reason codes and setting up quality MRB and RMA processes can facilitate useful quality-related enterprise reporting. |
| Creating and Using Views with Crystal Reports |
| A view is a real-time representation of data from one or more tables and can provide a summary of the data by representing the results of sums and/or formulas instead of the actual transaction detail. In this session, Cheryl discusses in what situations a view is useful and demonstrates how to create a view and use it in a Crystal report. If you’ve ever wanted to have an easy way to put the Table Values data elements into separate tables for ease of use in reports, or if you have ever needed to join two tables in a report, but doing so creates one-to-many relationships that give inaccurate results, this session will provide the answers you need. |
| Introducing Excel-based Financial Reporting and Analysis with BizNet |
With FRx in its twilight and eventual discontinuance, Expandable has explored alternatives to financial reporting and has partnered with BizNet to integrate BizInsights, an Excel-based business reporting tool and analytics solution reporting and analysis. With BizInsights, power reporting tools are developed not only to support financial reporting on the General Ledger but also can be developed for any data reporting within the Expandable ERP database making the investment in the tool a clear win for any company.
This session discusses a brief state of FRx end of life and the Expandable General Ledger BizContent that supports the financial reporting as an alternative to FRx for financial reporting. |
| The Many Benefits of Upgrading Expandable to the Latest Version |
| Remaining current with Expandable’s software releases is a great way to get the most out of your maintenance dollar. Each release adds new features and functionality requested by customers like you to make the system faster, more powerful and easier to use. In this session Bill Humphrey of Expandable outlines the key functionality that has been added over the last three releases and offers guidance on making sure you have the right versions of software to make the leap forward. |
| Tips and Techniques for Streamlining Workflow |
| Expandable contains lots of nifty gadgets designed to help you customize workflow and reduce keystrokes. Expandable's John Buller provides a wealth of easy-to-use techniques that you can learn and share back at the office that will make everyone's job a little easier. |
| Performing a High Quality Expandable Upgrade |
| Staying current with the latest release of Expandable is a great way to get more out of your software maintenance dollars, but the thought of making time to think through and test the process can be daunting. In this session David Vandegrift of Calmont Wire and Cable shares his experience keeping Expandable up-to-date and provides an Upgrade Checklist template you can tailor to your environment. |
| Advanced Crystal Reports |
Cross-tab reports are a powerful way to create summaries of data in a spreadsheet-style format. They generate summary data in a grid where the rows and columns represent groups of data, providing users a report format that is easy to read and consumes a small area of the page. This session provides an understanding of how to use cross-tab reports by demonstrating the creation of a cross-tab report in Crystal that reviews vendor and part quality history. Label creation for QC acceptance labeling will also be covered. |
| Preparing for the Auditor — How to Dig Up all the Details Your Auditor Demands |
| Before the auditors swoop down on the accounting department for the annual audit, they often pre-deliver a laundry list of accounting items they need to have waiting for them when they arrive. A good deal of what the auditors require can be generated directly through Expandable. In this session Laura White of BioPro presents a case study that shares her latest experience with the auditors and how she went about gathering information in Expandable, including the latest working trial balance, detail general ledger, accounts payable aging and more. |
| FDA Roundtable |
| This special roundtable is specifically designed to bring a focused discussion with users in the Life Sciences industry (Medical Device, Medical Technology and Pharmaceutical) and share quality issues and solutions, FDA validation experiences and tips and other challenges in maintaining compliance and system validation in these government regulated industries. Bring your experiences and challenges to share and see and hear first hand what other Expandable users are doing for success in these areas. |
| Quality Management Roundtable |
| FDA 21 CFR part 11, part 210, part 211 and part 820, ISO 9001:2000, TL9000, ISO 13485, AS9100, ISO/TS 16949:2002…. What does it all come down to? Quality Management, these are some of the government regulated and industry regulated requirements for CGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practice) centered on quality management.This session is an open discussion focused on common quality issues and identifying techniques for using the many built-in Expandable features that can be used to help solve quality management challenges. Bring your experiences and challenges to share and see and hear firsthand what other Expandable users are doing for success in these areas. |
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