Lawson M3 Multiple Unit Coordination (MUC) allows you to use and configure Lawson M3 in a multi-site organization. The solution also enables enterprises collaborating in the supply chain to operate simultaneously within the same Lawson M3 environment. By administering organizations in different locations and countries as a single unit, Multiple Unit Coordination simplifies planning, logistics, and accounting for inter-company transactions originating in the group.
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Lawson M3 Multiple Unit Coordination (MUC) allows you to use and configure Lawson M3 in a multi-site organization. The solution also enables enterprises collaborating in the supply chain to operate simultaneously within the same Lawson M3 environment. By administering organizations in different locations and countries as a single unit, Multiple Unit Coordination simplifies planning, logistics, and accounting for inter-company transactions originating in the group.- Software
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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 Intelligence
- 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.
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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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Diagnostics Management
- Lawson M3 Diagnostics Management (DIM) provides tools designed to support a reliability improvement program. DIM allows a detailed breakdown of an equipment's structure, which is used to identify potential failure points within equipment or other operational unit and its associated components and subassemblies. The potential failures can then be linked to maintenance routines designed to avoid an actual failure. Criticality rating and consequence analysis systems, together with user-definable statistics, help support the diagnostics decision process.
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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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Equipment and Component Control
- Lawson M3 Equipment and Component Control (ICC) gives operational personnel direct access to data, quickly and easily. The user navigates through a Windows-like site structure to access all the important equipment details from a single inquiry point. In addition to core equipment information such as manufacturer, supplier, warranty and purchase details, the user can review textual information, documents and drawings, technical datasheets, diagnostics, service details, work orders, requests, spare parts information, history, and statistics.
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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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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
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Maintenance Performance & Costing
- Lawson M3 Maintenance Performance & Costing (MCM) provides a suite of standard and user-definable analytical tools for processing maintenance data. Statistics include mean time between failure (MTBF), mean time to repair (MTTR), and resource-based analysis such as available hours versus planned hours and used hours. Much of the statistical information is summarized upwards to the higher levels of the equipment structure, which provides the opportunity to analyze information at, for example, equipment, line and factory levels.
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Maintenance Planning Board
- Lawson Maintenance Planning Board is an advanced planning function that displays work orders on a graphical Gantt chart. Using drag-and-drop capabilities, work orders can be rescheduled or reallocated to different teams or employees. The graphical planning board also provides access to related Lawson functions.
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Material Planning
- Lawson M3 Material Planning (MAP) is the collective term that describes the ways and means of calculating and proposing quantities and lead-times for items ordered from production, suppliers or warehouses. Since this is time-phased, proposals are also made for re-planning existing firm planned or released orders. The user is able to control all of the actions through settings such as planning method, lead time, safety lead time, upstream or downstream dampening, order quantity, calendar checks, and so on. To achieve the best possible coordination, Material Planning supports various types of acquisition methods including Lawson M3 Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP), Master Production Scheduling (MPS), Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and Reorder Point (ROP).
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Multi-book Ledger
- Multi-book Ledger allows you to maintain many sets of parallel books in one Lawson General Ledger, perfect for consolidating subsidiaries. In addition, it enables you to capture net-change accounting entries that define the differences between local and corporate reporting.
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Preventive Maintenance
- Lawson M3 Preventive Maintenance (PRM) is an important tool that can be used in producing the right maintenance program. Its features assist in the management of all forms of maintenance pro-grams, including inspections such as lubrication and functional checks as well as restorations and overhauls. Fast, single-screen entry provides the starting point for each service or inspection. Linked to an item, equipment, or area, the service definition contains all the details needed to complete the service successfully.
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Procurement
- M3 Procurement streamlines a company’s buying activity, reducing the cost of administration and execution, increasing the opportunity for significant cost savings through more comprehensive supplier management, and providing the necessary analysis to implement valuable supplier rating mechanisms.
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Supply Chain Management
- Supply Chain Management (SCM) offers a powerful method for supporting the planning, scheduling, and fulfillment of an extended supply chain, resulting in optimum customer service levels and maximum profitability. SCM features tools that provide visibility and control over the information, material, and financial flows throughout the extended value chain. This includes planning tools that cover the extended value chain down to individual resources on a strategic as well as an operational level.
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System Foundation
- The middleware layer that insulates Lawson applications from the underlying operating systems and databases.
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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.
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Warehouse Management Interfaces
- Lawson M3 Warehouse Management Interfaces (WHI) is designed to give smaller warehouses as well as larger distribution centers a flexible warehouse operations solution. The M3 Supply Chain Execution (SCE) solution offers best-of-breed functions in areas such as wave picking, packing, cross-docking, pick resource planning and intelligent put-away. WHI offers several interface points to operational warehouse equipment such as conveyers, radio frequency terminals, bar code readers and more. Local presence and support are crucial for the operational warehouse equipment, and Warehouse Management Interfaces provides the necessary flexibility to choose the best solution in each situation.
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Work Order Processing
- Lawson M3 Work Order Processing (WOP) consists of generated requests that originate from predefined services or user requirements. These requests can be automatically released to become work orders, as in the case of many predefined services and breakdown requests. They can also be directed for approval or for further estimation and planning. At the work order stage, WOP features a variety of options to manage and re-plan work. Other Lawson M3 applications interact extensively with work orders in areas such as spare parts and purchase management. Once completed, the job details are reported, approved and the work order is closed. The details are then available for historical and statistical inquiries.
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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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Consolidate the infrastructure of multiple locations of my organization
- Whether you have multiple branches across a single country or multiple locations across the world, Lawson can help you consolidate your organization’s infrastructure into a unified whole. System consolidation and automation can streamline core business processes, allowing your organization to experience increased flexibility, more efficient decision-making processes, more accurate financial and operational data on which to base more informed decisions, and better visibility into budgeting, finances, and consumer trends.
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Consolidate warehouse networks
- As customers demand high availability or short lead times, distributors have historically been forced to hold large inventory stocks. Distributors need tools that give a consistent view of all inventories and efficiently support all of the activities associated with storing goods. Lawson can help you organize your operations to maximize efficiency. Our solution helps expedite key orders, manage warehouse processes and resources, and ensure that orders are cost effectively and reliably delivered on time.
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Control multi-operations in different locations with multiple currencies and languages
- By helping you administer organizations in different locations and countries as a single unit, Lawson solutions simplify planning, logistics and accounting for intercompany transactions originating within your group of companies. 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.
- Control-multi-operations-in-different-locations
- By helping you administer organizations in different locations and countries as a single unit, Lawson solutions simplify planning, logistics and accounting for intercompany transactions originating within your group of companies. 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.
- Manage orders for multiple outlets across multiple locations
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Maximize visibility to spending throughout organization
- For most organizations, having a solid understanding of past spending is critical to planning the future direction of the enterprise. Lawson solutions give you visibility into the metrics and analytics that drive things like cost savings, process efficiencies, supply chain performance, and overall governance and compliance.
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- Optimize use of warehouse space for optimal stock levels and maximum customer service
