Lawson Business Intelligence (LBI)
Lawson Business Intelligence (LBI) is a suite that provides organization-wide reporting and analysis via role-based dashboards, helping to deliver the right information to the right people at the right time.
Cross-functional data, both structured and unstructured from Lawson as well as other operational systems, comes together to provide sharply focused views comprising, financials, customers, internal processes and human capital. Users can navigate smoothly from alerts to interactive analysis down to detailed reports and even to the transactions with, all while maintaining the context that’s critical to root cause analysis. Lawson Drill Around® is available for Lawson S3 clients.
Lawson Business Intelligence (LBI) is a set of applications and technology that is highly integrated with the Lawson business applications. LBI collects, stores, and analyzes data from Lawson or other systems and makes that data available as lists, graphs, reports, scorecards, alarms, and more – bridging the gap between transactional and “intelligence” systems.
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Lawson Business Intelligence (LBI) is a set of applications and technology that is highly integrated with the Lawson business applications. LBI collects, stores, and analyzes data from Lawson or other systems and makes that data available as lists, graphs, reports, scorecards, alarms, and more – bridging the gap between transactional and “intelligence” systems.
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Absence Management
- Facilitate the administration of complex plan eligibility requirements.
- Absence Management
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Accounts Payable
- Lawson M3 Accounts Payable (APL) is a complete solution for processing invoices and payments. The solution enables customers to focus on important activities such as cash management, internal control, and partner relationships.
- Accounts Payable (M3)
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Accounts Receivable
- Lawson M3 Accounts Receivable (ARL) provides complete administration, monitoring and control of customer invoices, credit, and collections. The solution handles complex transactions quickly and automatically, minimizing the need for manual processing. Flexible options allow you to configure Accounts Receivable to match your organization’s processes and procedures.
- Accounts Receivable (M3)
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Advanced Production Planner
- Lawson M3 Advanced Production Planner provides a single, integrated system for production scheduling that delivers crucial visibility and coherence. It assists you in quickly identifying potential problems in advance and helps you make the right decisions. The output is a realistic schedule with down-to-the-minute start and finish times for orders and processes.
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Analytics for Food & Beverage
- Lawson M3 Analytics for Food & Beverage provides fast, easy-to-use business intelligence. With KPIs and scorecard templates designed specifically for the food and beverage industry, it supplies integrated information that helps you manage your business more strategically.
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Asset Management
- Lawson Asset Management gives you access to key asset information such as book value, location of assets, inventory costs, lease costs and depreciation values. Configure asset definitions by department, cost center or location while complying with current accounting standards and reporting requirements.
- Asset Management
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Assortment & Replenishment Planner
- Assortment and Replenishment Planner (ARP) is an application that supports Private Brand Retailers in planning their assortments. ARP supports different phases in the planning process, from defining and creating the collection, creating the assortment plans, buy- and push plans to replenishment planning and final push. ARP can inform your Planners when changes occur in the execution of the plans.
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Attribute Control
- Lawson M3 Attribute Control (ATC) enables companies to use attributes as a complement to item numbers. ATC is the optimal solution for all environments with graded products. It supports the grading process from supply, through warehouse activities, to order fulfillment. Since ATC supports attribute-based stock and statistics, it is also a natural complement to the Lawson M3 Product Configurator, which mainly supports the dynamic design of a product structure.
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Budgeting & Planning
- Lawson Budgeting and Planning can help your organization achieve and maintain accurate visibility and control over your forward-looking financial picture, which is critical to achieving profitability objectives.
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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.
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Cash Flow Management
- Lawson M3 Cash Flow Management (CFM) is a sophisticated forecasting and planning tool. CFM helps you manage and control your global cash position, and provides the integration and information necessary for planning and constantly monitoring cash sources and requirements, both short-term and long-term. You can optimize cash, minimize exposure and better manage day-to-day cash activities. The strong integration of Cash Flow Management with other Lawson M3 components ensures an accurate and comprehensive view of your current cash situation.
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Contract Management
- Lawson Contract Management provides an enterprise contract management system that can be used by organizations to manage the creation of contracts by areas outside of legal, following approved, standardized guidelines.
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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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Demand Planner
- Lawson M3 Demand Planner enables account managers, product managers and your key customers to collaborate in the demand-planning process. By moving forecasting closer to the end user, you can more accurately predict demand and remove excessive inventory that ties up capital and increases storage costs.
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EDI for Supply Chain Management
- Lawson EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) for Supply Chain Management links your enterprise to its trading partners to electronically send transactions such as purchase orders, price/catalogs and invoices electronically.
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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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Search Tool - Lawson Enterprise Search
- Similar to a search feature, Lawson Enterprise Search lets you conduct free-form searches across multiple data sources and get secure search results that include descriptions, form keys and actionable links.
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Financial Management
- Lawson Financial software creates the enterprise transparency you need to simplify complex financial management, track budgets to make your numbers, and prepare for top-line growth. Designed to offer you more effective cost-reduction strategies and more accurate forecasting, Lawson Financials enables you to respond more quickly to emerging trends and issues.
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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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Financial Management
Lawson financial software creates the transparency that leads to improved budget management, effective cost-reduction strategies, more accurate forecasting and faster responses to emerging issues. Automate your extensive data-collection and management tasks and reduce data entry redundancies. Key applications include:
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Budget Preparation & Reporting
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Grant Management
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Compliance Control Manager
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Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable
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Financial Reporting Self-Service
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General Ledger
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- Financial Management (S3)
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Financials
- The Lawson S3 Financials application is designed to help you reduce costs by simplifying, streamlining, automating and standardizing key business processes.It includes a series of core functions necessary to help run your business.
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Grant Management
- Lawson Grant Management helps you optimize the business side of your research program by reducing costs, automating system-wide grant processes, eliminating redundant systems and tasks, delivering real-time role-based information and ensuring regulatory compliance.
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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.
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- 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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Human Capital Management
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The Lawson Human Capital Management Suite can help you manage the most important asset of most organizations – your people. Our solutions help you utilize technology to gain as much knowledge as possible on your current workforce to more effectively manage recruitment and on-going staff training, development and retention efforts. Better align your organization to put top performers into more strategic roles and enhance the performance of people across the organization. Reduce waste, gain access to accurate/timely data, and eliminate redundant data entry by modernizing HR activities. And proactively address an aging workforce.
Key applications include:
- Talent Acquisition
- Compensation Management
- Performance Management
- Employee/Manager Self-Service
- Payroll Automation
- Time Management
- Teacher Contract Administration
- Absence Management
- TimeOff Planner
- Human Capital Management
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Automate my ability to maintain compliance and keep up with regulatory changes/updates
- With Lawson, our automated system allows you to channel information to the right places, validate and record that information, and produce the high-value analytics necessary to make timely and accurate business decisions. System-based controls, paperless activities, and electronic approvals promote repeatable and sustainable actions and help you seamlessly monitor key transactions and events, while enabling simpler audit trails and reducing risk.
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Automate report development
- Reduce errors and replace inefficient and costly paper-based report development with automated reporting solutions from Lawson. Our powerful reporting applications extend and consolidate data generated by both Lawson and non-Lawson systems and use pre-built information models to automate reporting for everything from accounting and budget management to business process analytics, employee data, enterprise performance indicators and more.
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Balance the complexities of state and federal requirements, compliance rules, and regulations with the need for flexibility as requirements change
- The flexible, integrated information systems from Lawson help boost performance and support more effective governance and full regulatory compliance. Your organization can more effectively and efficiently manage regulatory requirements and stay on top of changes over time.
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Comply with extensive government regulations
- Organizations across the globe are navigating a complex path of new standards and stakeholder expectations and are challenged to do so in a way that supports performance objectives and sustains value. The Lawson solution can work with many financial systems and connect enterprise-wide data, leveraging your company’s ability to understand and adopt best practices for meeting compliance requirements.
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Comply with regulations such as FDA 21 CFR Part 11 and 21 CFR 820.70(i)
- Based upon properly established internal control frameworks, Lawson provides the technology foundation to help your company prove it is compliant, trustworthy, and has credible operations. Build in traceability and compliance across your organization through system control and security, audit trails, electronic signatures and validation during project implementation.
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Consolidate disparate systems resulting from mergers and acquisitions
- Mergers and acquisitions are headline-grabbing events and are an important means of growth. Yet companies can find themselves stretched too thin if they fail to build an integrated business with a strong operating vision and the discipline to impose that vision on the entire organization. At Lawson, we are confident that our solutions can make this complicated challenge simpler. As well as offering multi-language and multi-currency functionality, we provide users with a dashboard representation of the state of the business, as well as the tools needed to simplify the process of integrating disparate and/or legacy IT systems.
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Cope with and manage through changing business models
- These days, business models change at a rapid pace. Back-end systems must keep pace with new ideas quickly and effectively. They must ensure better resource utilization and cost control while remaining flexible enough to allow requirements changes on extremely short notice. Lawson offers quality solutions that address these needs. Our software integrates real-time financial and operational information across your entire supply chain, for greater visibility and increased flexibility for your business.
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Develop new sales channels
- Are you developing new sales channels, such as e-Sales or a new retail division? The Lawson solution helps you strategically exploit sales opportunities by offering a range of tools to help know your customer better and to build more profitable relationships. We’ll help you store, analyze and utilize information about your customers—their preferences, their current needs, their previous buying patterns and so on. Plus, we’ll help make it easier for your customers to do business with you via internet capabilities including web shops and self-service facilities.
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Efficiently meet and report on annual budgeting, financial management, and encumbrance / fund accounting requirements
- Information delivery is the cornerstone of your Lawson system — not only what’s presented, but how it’s presented. Lawson provides many convenient reporting features, tailored to the roles of your decision makers and the task at hand. Once a report is created, it can easily be broadcast or published to your organization’s portal, available for viewing by others, with information tailored to each user’s role and security clearance.
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Efficiently meet stringent state and federal reporting and oversight requirements
- Lawson solutions can help relieve the burden of data collection, form maintenance and compliance challenges associated with managing federal, state and local reporting and oversight requirements. Our cost-effective applications are helping many companies automate and improve their compliance process, and decrease the costs and inefficiencies associated with compliance requirements. Your organization can benefit too.
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Ensure more accurate data collection, analysis and reporting capabilities
- Unlock the value of important operational data. Increase data accuracy and analysis capabilities. And get fast, easy-to-use business intelligence from across your organization. The centralized data collection and analytics applications from Lawson supply your company with integrated information that helps you manage your business more strategically.
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Find a configurable system that can adapt and scale to evolving business needs.
- As your business continues to grow, you need enterprise management systems that can grow right alongside you. And Lawson can. Our robust, web-based systems can be easily configured to meet specific operational needs without custom programming. Whether you are on the cusp of opening new branch locations, in the middle of a merger, or at the forefront of a new industry, your Lawson system can be configured over time to meet the needs of your ever-growing and evolving business needs.
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- As your business continues to grow, you need enterprise management systems that can grow right alongside you. And Lawson can. Our robust, web-based systems can be easily configured to meet specific operational needs without custom programming. Whether you are on the cusp of opening new branch locations, in the middle of a merger, or at the forefront of a new industry, your Lawson system can be configured over time to meet the needs of your ever-growing and evolving business needs.
- Gain administrative efficiencies, transparency, and accountability through best practices, integrated business processes and systems, and access to information
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Gain transparency within the business, and eliminate many manual procedures
- To improve the supply chain, all the elements that make up the chain must work closely, including retailers, wholesalers, distributors, manufacturers and growers/vendors.
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Get an enterprise-wide view of key financial and other data in a single source across the organization
- In your fast-paced world, business intelligence must be actionable - and Lawson can help you put information to work on behalf of your organization. Our solutions consolidate information from across the enterprise, then present reliable sets of financial data to your decision makers.
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Improve access to data and data sharing across my entire ogranization
- Lawson reporting solutions enable cross-departmental data sharing through a single centralized system. They provide many convenient reporting features, tailored to the roles of your decision makers.
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Improve the accuracy of retail-related data collection, analysis and reporting capabilities
- Lawson solutions can bring powerful benefits to your retail organization. Instead of maintaining three or more item files for various applications, you have a single set of information which can be shared across your entire business. Your financial system captures transactional data from every location, anywhere in the world. Your executives analyze performance data at multiple levels of detail, whether by store, product line, region or other meaningful criteria.
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Increase employee productivity and workforce efficiencies
- Get the analytic and management information you need to continuously monitor and improve your organization.
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- Manage orders for multiple outlets across multiple locations
- Manage the flow of your rental units
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Maximize visibility into and across my entire organization, even across states and/or countries
- Lawson combines essential business intelligence tools into one tightly knit solution that gives you clear visibility across your enterprises with drill-down paths to the details they need to drive corporate performance, governance and compliance.
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Meet the heightened regulatory pressures of SOX
- Meeting Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) financial auditing and reporting requirements is a major challenge for publicly traded companies in the United States. Similar legislation introduced by the European Union adds to the challenge for multinational businesses. Lawson Software suggests a framework for putting the SOX compliance challenge into perspective and simplifying and streamlining the process by leveraging the power of ERP, workflow automation, and automated SOX control management activities.
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More effectively manage and distribute information throughout the organization
- Information delivery is the cornerstone of your Lawson system. Once a report is created, it can easily be broadcast or published to your organization’s portal, available for viewing by others, with information tailored to each user’s role and security clearance.
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- Protect my business from margin erosion (S3)
- Protect net profitability
