Optimal Solutions
| Type of Partnership: | Product |
| Partner in: | United States |
| Industries: | Food and Beverage - main, Manufacturing - main, Equipment Dealers - main, Distribution - main, Equipment Rental - main, Retail - main, Equipment OEMs - main, Fashion - main, Transportation - main |
| Specialties: | Resource Planning |
| Product Line: | M3 |
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| Partner Web Site: | www.optimalsolutions.se |
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Optimal Solutions acts in a niche in the software/system market that supplies "intelligent software". Based on optimization, Optimal Solutions supplies high-quality solutions to complex planning and scheduling problems, and thus helps customers improve their businesses and achieve substantial savings. Intentia's Lawson M3 and Optimal Solutions' Laps Service together form a unique system that handles advanced daily planning and dispatching for companies with field service organizations. The system automatically gives you the optimal solution where the right person with the right skills provides the right service at the right time. | |
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Business Process Management
- Lawson's Business Process Management products provide companies the means with which to connect, configure and customize their Lawson solution.
- Business Process Management
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Sales & Customer Relationship Management
- This complete suite of CRM software is designed specifically to give
medium-sized enterprises complete 360-degree management of your
customers, with the specific goal of maximizing both your revenues and
your margins. Our customer sales and service software enables efficient
management of customer marketing intelligence, opportunity information,
and sales force automation. Plus, it offers an information platform for
all sales planning, marketing and customer-facing activities. Key
applications include:
- Sales Management
- Maintenance Order Management
- e-sales: B2B and B2C
- Sales & Marketing Automation
- Service Management
- Project Management
- Customer Relationship Management
- This complete suite of CRM software is designed specifically to give
medium-sized enterprises complete 360-degree management of your
customers, with the specific goal of maximizing both your revenues and
your margins. Our customer sales and service software enables efficient
management of customer marketing intelligence, opportunity information,
and sales force automation. Plus, it offers an information platform for
all sales planning, marketing and customer-facing activities. Key
applications include:
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Enterprise Asset Management
- Specifically designed for organizations whose asset reliability and availability is crucial to the success of their business, enterprise asset management software from Lawson is a preconfigured, best-of-breed maintenance management solution that helps ensure your assets remain available, and reliable. Key applications include:
- Diagnostics Management
- Equipment & Component Control
- Maintenance Performance & Costing
- Work Order Processing
- Enterprise Asset Management
- Specifically designed for organizations whose asset reliability and availability is crucial to the success of their business, enterprise asset management software from Lawson is a preconfigured, best-of-breed maintenance management solution that helps ensure your assets remain available, and reliable. Key applications include:
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Enterprise Performance Management
Lawson performance management solutions offer simple yet sophisticated software that helps you consolidate valuable information and create views of enterprise data at any level of detail, even across disparate applications. Plus, you can locate and leverage your organization's existing intellectual capital and set up a system of automatic notifications for timely delivery of important information.
Key applications include:
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Business Intelligence
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ProcessFlow
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Smart Notification
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- Enterprise Performance Management
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Financial Management
- The Lawson M3 Financial Management suite helps you capture, analyze and
manage all financial information related to your company’s operations.
Designed to offer you more effective cost-reduction strategies and more
accurate forecasting and costing models, Lawson financial integrates
with the other M3 suites and enables you to respond more quickly to
emerging trends and issues. Key applications include:
- Budgeting & Cash Flow Management
- Product Costing
- Multiple Unit Coordination
- Risk Management
- Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable
- General Ledger
- Report Generator
- Tax Management
- Financial Management (M3)
- The Lawson M3 Financial Management suite helps you capture, analyze and
manage all financial information related to your company’s operations.
Designed to offer you more effective cost-reduction strategies and more
accurate forecasting and costing models, Lawson financial integrates
with the other M3 suites and enables you to respond more quickly to
emerging trends and issues. Key applications include:
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Graphical Lot Tracker
- Lawson M3 Graphical Lot Tracker was developed for companies using lot control that need to track and trace the links between different lots in their supply chain. Retailers are increasingly demanding that recall information is supplied almost immediately and Graphical Lot Tracker helps ensure that you can deliver. Graphical Lot Tracker improves quality and reduces the cost of performing traceability compliance audits with external auditors. It also helps forward-thinking companies prove the source of raw materials from licensed or approved sources and ethical suppliers. By being easy to implement and affordable to own Graphical Lot Tracker offers you short time to benefit.
- Graphical Lot Tracker
- Lawson M3 Graphical Lot Tracker was developed for companies using lot control that need to track and trace the links between different lots in their supply chain. Retailers are increasingly demanding that recall information is supplied almost immediately and Graphical Lot Tracker helps ensure that you can deliver. Graphical Lot Tracker improves quality and reduces the cost of performing traceability compliance audits with external auditors. It also helps forward-thinking companies prove the source of raw materials from licensed or approved sources and ethical suppliers. By being easy to implement and affordable to own Graphical Lot Tracker offers you short time to benefit.
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Lawson for Fashion
- Lawson for Fashion is a comprehensive enterprise software system, specially designed for those in the fashion industry to give you the tools you need to improve profits and combat chargebacks.
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Lawson for Food & Beverage
- Lawson for Food and Beverage is designed to help you increase your margins, manage risk and provide better customer service. It covers food industry issues such as shelf life, catch weight, variable attributes and more — and with full supply chain traceability, Lawson M3 software enables you to build confidence and trust in your brand.
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Manufacturing Operations
- Lawson Manufacturing Management is designed to help reduce operational over-heads and support operational efficiencies in discrete, process, and mixed-mode manufacturing environments. Both simple and complex manufacturing environments can be planned, managed, and monitored with particular focus on increasingly complex regulatory control (such as traceability and shelf life).
- Manufacturing Management
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QuickStep Demand Planner
- QuickStep for Demand Planner (QSDMP) helps you to implement M3 Demand
Planner faster, at lower cost and with a better end-result for your
demand planning process.
- QuickStep Demand Planner
- QuickStep for Demand Planner (QSDMP) helps you to implement M3 Demand
Planner faster, at lower cost and with a better end-result for your
demand planning process.
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QuickStep Distribution
- Specifically designed for mid-sized companies, our preconfigured distribution solution covers all the features and functionality you need to get up and running quickly. QuickStep Distribution delivers predefined but easily configurable menus, processes, templates and training. It reduces and streamlines the steps required for a customized system implementation, saving you time and money. Yet it’s flexible enough to be customized to your unique requirements. The result is an affordable solution that meets your immediate needs but also forms the basis for future growth and improvement.
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Service Management
- Lawson M3 Service Management handles your entire organization with one fully integrated solution, providing a foundation for building long-term partnerships with your customers. Designed for companies that operate a field service force as part of their operation. It enables you to manage, control and streamline your entire service organization, generating complex service contracts to promptly and efficiently handle service calls.
- Service Management (M3)
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Warehouse Management
- Lawson M3 Warehouse Management (WHM) addresses the activities required inside warehouses and distribution centers. It offers best-of-breed functionality that helps speed up the flow of goods, from goods receipt to shipping. Tools such as the task manager create more efficient utilization of warehouse personnel and equipment. Fully configurable work flows help provide greater accuracy and precision in vital processes. In goods receipt and put away, operations such as container management, sampling tests, intelligent location selection and cross-dock routings can be set up individually for products and supply channels.
- Warehouse Management
- Acquire and manage top talent that is educated, experienced in my industry, and a good fit for my organization (S3)
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Asset Management
- When you operate in an asset intensive industry, where asset management failure can have a dramatic effect on your profitability, you need enterprise software that you can depend on to get the job done. That’s why Lawson offers tailored solutions that meet your complex asset demands.
- Asset-Management
- Attract and retain a skilled workforce that has industry experience and is good fit for my organization (M3)
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Automate Manual Supply Tasks and Processes
Whether you manufacture, distribute, store, rent, or sell products, the demand for effective, efficient operations is constantly increasing. These efficiencies can be gained with automated solutions from Lawson.
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Automate Manual Tasks & Processes
- Automating business processes across disparate applications improves response time, increases efficiency, improves internal controls, and reduces costs, delivering measurable results to your bottom line. Lawson helps you automate business processes by integrating application services and users to eliminate many costly, time-consuming manual operations.
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- Automate processes like stock replenishment and stock balancing
- Become more demand-driven and agile
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Better Inventory Planning and Management
To achieve operational excellence, manufacturers need increased visibility from the top floor to the shop floor with the ability to view the status of orders, inventory changes, and overall process performance. Seamlessly connecting manufacturing processes with the enterprise layer requires a tightly integrated yet flexible
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- Better manage and control costs for store space, labor expenses, and other operational issues
- Better manage and more efficiently respond to consumer demand
- Better manage and respond to peak-season demand - changeability, seasonality, inventory
- Better manage forecasting and inventory for accuracy and just-in-time product replenishment
- Constantly combat margin erosion (M3
- Gain visibility to entire supply chain (M3)
- Gain visibility to entire supply chain to integrate and manage functions from warehousing and distribution to back office store systems (S3)
- Improve inventory management
- Increase efficiencies, control costs, and do more with less (M3)
- Increase operational efficiencies, control costs, and manage spending (S3
- Manage field service operations, sales force and service technicians more effectively with mobility solutions
- Manage orders for multiple outlets across multiple locations
- Manage parts logistics more efficiently
- Manage the flow of your rental units
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Margin Transparency and Management
When it comes to razor thin margins and a focus on profitability, every single decision you make -- about product, pricing, staffing, or logistics – impacts costs and revenues. The right software can help position you for strong growth in today’s competitive market place. Lawson can help provide a critical edge, supporting faster decisions, more cost control, and a tighter grip on margins.
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- Margin analysis and transparency and flexible pricing
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More Effectively Maintain Compliance
- Across the globe, compliance, risk management, transparency and business intelligence have become more vital than ever. In both the public and the private sectors, organizations must comply with countless operational and financial regulations and requirements – or face severe penalties. Yet these regulations are subject to continued revision and reform. Lawson can help your organization stay up to date on the regulations that impact your operations, and help you automate your compliance processes.
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