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.
Advanced Production Planner

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.
Attribute Control

Lawson M3 Distributions Requirements Planning (DRP) provides you with the necessary support to integrate your physical distribution needs into one system. DRP calculation setups enable you to receive a constantly updated and stable material plan that matches your business need. Whether it is one calculation per day or a continuous calculation of DRP, the setup per item/warehouse function is the answer to your requirements. DRP also includes a number of instruments to help control the order flow and proposals generated by the system.
Distribution Requirements Planning

Lawson M3 Engineering Change Management (ECM) includes the necessary functions for the entry, distribution, authorization, final approval, and implementation of a company’s product changes.
Engineering Change Management

Lawson M3 Laboratory & Inspection Control (LIC) is used to administer the inspection of items. These can be either manufactured in-house or purchased. The first step is to define the basis for laboratory analyses and inspections in so-called laboratory and inspection (LI) specifications. Each item that is controlled by the LI process has an LI specification connected to it.
Laboratory and Inspection Control

The Manufacturing Execution application delivers broad and deep functionality, superior flexibility, and an ability to execute so customers can reach their full potential in planning, executing, and controlling production in different environments. It supports a wide range of different manufacturing environments and strategies.
Manufacturing Execution

Lawson M3 Manufacturing Order Processing (MOP) enables users to customize their production planning and execution according to their specific needs. MOP focuses on all aspects of production activity control, whether you use discrete manufacturing orders or kanban / orderless approaches. The comprehensive configuration possibilities allow you to scale the system to fit any company size and adapt it to changes in the manufacturing environment. MOP has extensive functionality for the specific needs of traceability, laboratory inspection and approval, document management, in-process reporting, sequencing, by-product and co-product management, potency, and capacity planning.
Manufacturing Order Processing

Lawson M3 Master Production Scheduling (MPS) gives maximum support to a master planner. With MPS, companies get a full set of tools that enable them to simulate any plan before implementing it in a live environment. MPS contains all the functionality found in a classic material requirements planning environment. In addition, Materials Management and Resource Management have extensive functionality for available-to-promise and capable-to-promise order entry, while still respecting the rules for planning and demand time fences. Safety stock functions, including stock build-up during high seasons, are also part of the framework that supports the master scheduler’s job.
Master Production Scheduling

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).
Material Planning

Lawson M3 Product Configurator allows you to take sales orders for customized products and produce unique products for your customer. Tight integration between product definition and sales processes enables you to offer the right product to the right customer, assure customer-specific sales prices and supply a lead time for each specific order. You can also distribute unique variants of complex products throughout the supply chain without having to create a unique item for each configured order line.
Product Configurator

The Lawson M3 Product Data Management application is for product-centric businesses that need to maintain, store, and use large amounts of product-related data across various administrative processes.
Product Data Management

Lawson for Fashion Product Lifecycle Management (Fashion PLM) is a comprehensive product lifecycle management tool that enables you to innovate faster, with more accuracy and with greater input from both your internal and external partners.
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

Lawson M3 Production Statistics (PST) is updated as a result of completed manufacturing orders. All reports made against manufacturing orders become input for the production statistics. The different factors that can be analyzed by PST include cost variances, resource utilization, scrap and quality measures, lead time, and operation efficiency. Inquiries include summarized and detailed analyses along with average statistics on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. Production statistics can be displayed as absolute numbers, variances, and percentage of planned production.
Production Statistics

Lawson M3 Rough-Cut Capacity Planning (RCP) enables the user to calculate capacity needs and usage on aggregated and SKU levels. RCP helps users identify potential bottlenecks that can disrupt a schedule. You can also use it as a basis for planning long-range resources and production capacity. Planning can be based on forecasts, master demand schedules and production schedules with manufacturing orders. The rough-cut capacity planning (RCCP) engine can consider several different bases as input for creating a plan such as forecast, forecast consumption, the material plan, or the master demand schedule.
Rough-Cut Capacity Planning

Lawson M3 Technical Document Management (TDO) provides extensive options that can be used to define technical documents using numerous coding and identification features. Within TDO, a technical document may include manufacturers’ manuals, drawings, parts lists, and so on. Technical documents can be linked to various areas of Lawson M3 including equipment, positions, and service definitions. Revision control along with the ability to control the location of and references to documents throughout an organization minimizes the risk of damaged or lost documents.
Technical Document Management