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Tuesday | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM |  | GEN 201 - Inventory Roundtable |  | This interactive discussion will focus on inventory closeout procedures, troubleshooting inventory issues, transferring inventory, using inventory reports and anything else encompassing inventory. You’ll have the opportunity to discuss any inventory-related activities, so come prepared to share your stories and ask your questions.
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|  | PROD 201 - Lean Manufacturing | | A Different Kind of Lean Manufacturing
This session will be a case study of a TMM user. The company leaned out its operations by expanding the use of the ERP system. You will learn how to gain advantages by:
- Automating the Shift Reporting process
- Using Bar Coding to manage inventories
- Adopting Master Scheduling to gain factory efficiencies
- Looking for opportunities to make minor modifications
By the end of this session you will be able to understand how an actual user was able to:
- Get big results from small projects
- Re-task employees hours to more value added activities
- Expand plant capacity without a capital investment
- Introduce more discipline into operations
You should come prepared with: questions about the process of “thinking” lean; and questions about the human and capital investment required.
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| 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM | | GEN 202 - Managing Preventive Maintenance | | This session will focus on the integration of maintenance activities into TMM. The coordination of these activities with scheduling, inventory and accounting will be explored. By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Gain an understanding of the application.
- Create and maintain all assets for which maintenance is required.
- Create maintenance procedures and service plans.
- Schedule maintenance activities to occur in the future.
**Prerequisite for this session is a knowledge of maintenance activities within your company.
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| | PROD 202 - For the Keeper of the Books | | This interactive discussion will focus on a broad spectrum of things relating to accounting, customer service and shipping-oriented tasks. You will have the opportunity to discuss all things related to these areas, so come prepared with your questions and ideas for enhancements.
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| 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM | | GEN 103 - DTR State of the Product and Roadmap | | This session will provide an overview of what’s been happening with the DTR product line over the past 18 months, as well as where the product is headed in the coming years. You’ll learn what we are planning for upcoming product releases and be able to provide your feedback. Topics will include:
- Product strategy and direction.
- Recent DTR product developments.
- DTR product roadmap.
- DTR professional services outlook.
** This session is intended for all DTR customers.
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| 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM | | GEN 104 - Manufacturing Data Flow Roundtable | | This session will focus on various transactional data and it’s possible uses and integration throughout the manufacturing side of TMM. This session will provide you with an opportunity to share ideas with your fellow users as well as offer input on the direction of your product through discussions led by our DTR staff.
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| | PROD 104 - Bar Coding and Pseudo-Serialized Inventory | | This session will explore a bar-coding technique that has the power of serialization without all of the internal TMM overhead. By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Determine if a bar-coding system can help your company improve speed and accuracy in your inventory systems.
- Decide if a serialized inventory is required or if a pseudo-serial system will meet your traceability requirements.
**Prerequisites for this session are a basic understanding of TMM and the need to improve speed and accuracy in your inventory control processes.
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| 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM | | GEN 205 - Feature Team | | This session is your opportunity to participate in the product development process for our next release of TMM. This will be a highly-interactive roundtable session during which we will discuss planned new features and solicit your feedback. You will:
- Learn more about new features being considered for TMM 10.0.
- Voice your opinion and give input on product direction and feature designs.
** This session is intended for experienced TMM users who wish to help steer the direction of the product.
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| | PROD 205 - Forecasting Facets within TMM | | This session will focus on Forecasting’s impact with scheduling, budgeting and rough-cut capacity plans. By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Have an awareness of the minimal setup required to use Forecasting.
- Basic understanding of creating carious types of forecasts.
- Review the benefits and possible integration with scheduling.
- Develop rough-cut capacity, review various budgeting aspects.
**Prerequisite for this session is a basic understanding of scheduling.
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Wednesday | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM | | GEN 106 - CorVu on 5.2 | | This session will provide a basic understanding of the newest features available to you in version 5.2 of CorVuDuring this session, you will:
- See the new user interface and icon images.
- See the new query design screen.
- View the newest graphics and charts available.
- Learn how to copy, paste and export pivot tables.
- Learn how to prompt for data validation, and much more.
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| | PROD 206 - The Ins and Outs of TMM Costs | | This session will focus on various methods of obtaining and setting different cost information throughout TMM. By the end of this session, you will:
- Understand the flow and uses of standard costs.
- Learn how costs flow to and from the various activities within TMM.
- Learn about the utilities available to help manage various costs.
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| 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM | | GEN 207 - KPIs for the Plastics Industry Customer Panel | | This customer panel will focus on the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that are utilized by executives and senior management at typical plastics manufacturers. Our goal is to identify what kinds of metrics a C-level executive needs to see in an execute dashboard to help gage and steer the performance of the organization. In addition to discussing metrics, we will also touch on TMM’s various reporting tools and how they can be utilized to provide this kind of information. This session will provide an opportunity for you to share ideas with your fellow users as well as offer input on the direction of your product through discussions led by our DTR staff.
** This session is intended for any TMM customer who is either a consumer or provider of performance metrics.
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| | PROD 207 - Managing Your World | | During this session, we will review a list of items that don’t typically get the attention they deserve after your initial hardware install and implementation. It will include a series of topics around your network and business systems. By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Review your current systems and determine if any of the new tools can help in the management of your IT infrastructure.
- Decide if you are using the best-in-class solutions to integrate TMM with the other systems and equipment that run your business.
**Prerequisite for this session is a basic understanding of TMM and your network.
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| 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM |  | MYC 108 - How to Know When to Let Go of Your Data | | How to Know When to Let Go of Your Data is a roundtable that will focus on data retention for the various areas of TMM. This session will be interactive as the attendees share and discuss their current retention plan, learn more efficient ways to moving records to history and/or purging data to help speed up reports. We will also be asking for your feedback on the purge utility, PURU10, to ensure the changes that are currently being made by development will give the user more controls when purging data. By the end of the session, you will
- Have a better plan for retaining data should one not currently exist
- Know how to move data to history
- Know how to purge data
- Help design the current Purge Utility (PURU10)
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| | PROD 208 - Scheduling Roundtable | | This interactive discussion will focus on scheduling processes in both Traditional Scheduling and Master Scheduling. This session will provide an opportunity to discuss various methods of scheduling with other users. Users will also share success stories in using scheduling to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
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| 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM | | GEN 109 - Process Monitoring Roundtable | | This interactive discussion will provide you with an opportunity to hear how other customers have implemented process monitoring in their facility, and how they made the decision on which one to use. If you currently use a process monitoring software that is implemented with TMM, come share your success story with others. If you aren’t currently using a process monitoring software but would like more information on it, come gather information from other users to aid in your decision-making process.
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| | PROD 109 - Introduction to Quote Manager | | This session will focus on the new v9.3 feature, Quote Manager. By the end of this session, you will:
- Understand the core concept and general design of Quote Manager.
- Have knowledge of the module’s basic workflow and how you might use it on a day-to-day basis.
**Prerequisite for this session is a basic understanding of TMM and your internal quote process.
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| | PROD 309 - Database Tuning with OE 10 and App Server | | Who wouldn’t want to make their system faster without buying new hardware? Database Tuning With OE 10 & App Server will be part how-to and part customer panel. The customer panel will discuss success stories of how we helped them tune their database and what improvements they achieved. It will also give the audience an opportunity to discuss best practices when using OpenEdge 10 and AppServer. This session is perfect for attendees with these job roles: power user, report writer and/or database administrator. By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Understand what tuning parameters are available in your version of OpenEdge (Progress).
- Optimize these settings.
- Know what reports to run to determine if a dump and load is necessary.
- Prepare your users for a successful database-tuning experience.
** Prerequisites for this session: A strong understanding of the AXIS, DTR or Encompix application, as well as an understanding of OpenEdge. Database experience is also helpful.
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Thursday | 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM | | PROD 110 - Beginner’s Advanced Reporting | | This session will provide a first look at, and walkthrough of, the Advanced Reporting add-on. By the end of this session, you will:
- Understand how Advanced Reporting works and how it integrates with TMM.
- Know how to write basic reports from the Advanced Reporting spheres that encompass various areas (e.g., accounting, purchasing) within TMM.
- Understand the basic differences between Advanced Reporting and CorVu, and how Advanced Reporting might benefit you even if you already use CorVu.
**Prerequisite for this session is a basic understanding of TMM.
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| | PROD 310 - Disaster Recovery With Progress | | Are you prepared for your next unscheduled outage? This session will be part how-to and part customer experiences. We will discuss best practices as well as how to secure your database, application, and hardware from failure. We will also review backup procedures online, offline and incrementally. Finally, we’ll take a close look at what block device backups do and why they are okay to “snapshot” your database (as opposed to typical OS backups that require you to shut down the database). This session is perfect for attendees who are systems and/or database administrators. By the end of this session, you will:
- Understand what the online backup process backs up and how to increase the frequency of the backup, if necessary.
- Learn about AI and why you should implement it.
- Learn about Replication and why you should have a duplicate system offsite, if you choose to implement it.
- Have participated in an open discussion about business continuity plans.
** Prerequisites for this session include a strong understanding of the AXIS, TMM or Encompix application, as well as an understanding of OpenEdge. Database experience is also helpful.
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| 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM | | MYC 111 - Feature Team: Streamlining Processes and Reducing Data Entry | | This Feature Team session on Streamlining Processes and Reducing Data Entry will give the users a chance to share their ideas on how TMM can minimize the redundant data entry and how to streamline processes such as month end and year end closeout. This session will rely on user participation so come prepared to share your ideas on how we can incorporate these changes in TMM10.0 and beyond. By the end of the session, you will
- Have helped cultivate ideas for future changes to the software as it pertains to data entry and monthly/yearly processes
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| | PROD 211 - Analyzing Production Data | | In this session, we will focus on the various ways of analyzing different phases of your manufacturing processes. This session will also provide an opportunity for users to share some best practices on the various ways they analyze aspects of their manufacturing processes. By the end of this session, you will:
- Have a basic understanding of the standard manufacturing analysis reports available within TMM.
- Explore other, non-standard, ways of analyzing unique processes.
- Gain knowledge from fellow users about how they analyze manufacturing data.
**Prerequisite for this session is a basic understanding of BOM structures and manufacturing processes.
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| 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM |  | ADVT 312 - CorVu 5.2 Advanced Technical Workshop | | Why rush to the airport when you can spend more quality time with us by signing up for the post conference session and getting hands-on experience with the new CorVu 5.2. During this session, a CorVu consultant will present all the new and exciting things that CorVu v5.2 has to offer. This session will take a deeper dive into many areas, but a few of the highlights include: viewing the new and improved complex query interface; discussing enhanced functions; working with automatic conditional crosstabs; showing off the new graphing enhancements; and, of course, getting a better look at the improved user interface and all the tools it has to offer. There is no better way to wrap up the conference than by spending time with one of CorVu’s own consultants, as well as your favorite DTR personnel. Space for this session is limited, so make sure you sign up early. We hope to see you there!
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