Lawson M3 Product Configurator (PCR) enables you to respond to the demands of the market. Configuration rules for products are established in an interactive question and answer environment when the products are defined. These definitions are used in order entry and quotations. All input is validated against the predefined rules for each product. Sales prices are calculated dynamically and lead times are displayed. Through simulations, different configurations can be compared and evaluated.
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Lawson M3 Product Configurator (PCR) enables you to respond to the demands of the market. Configuration rules for products are established in an interactive question and answer environment when the products are defined. These definitions are used in order entry and quotations. All input is validated against the predefined rules for each product. Sales prices are calculated dynamically and lead times are displayed. Through simulations, different configurations can be compared and evaluated.- Software
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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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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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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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Capacity Requirements Planning
- Lawson M3 Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP) is the center of the capacity hub. By setting the scene and rules for capacity, it enables the user to utilize planning and analysis tools in Lawson M3, thus saving both time and money in the planning process. With CRP users can process resource requirements and load for either planned or released manufacturing or maintenance orders. CRP also interacts with Lawson M3 Advanced Production Planner (APP) and Multi- Site Planner (MSP), which facilitates powerful planning for finite capacity scheduling as well as synchronization of resources and load across several facilities.
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Customer Delivery Schedules
- Lawson M3 Customer Delivery Schedules (CDS) make it possible for you to receive or manually enter you customer's different demands, such as consolidated forecasts, sales or production forecasts, call-offs and just-in-time (JIT) call-offs, sales reports, or sales statistics, via EDI or XML. The process is highly automated and deviation-oriented with multi-channeled alerts. You can monitor the customer's active and non-active demands separately as well as the consolidated demand for the current products.
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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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Distribution Requirements Planning
- 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.
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Engineering Change Management
- 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.
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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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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
- 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
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- 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.
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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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Inventory Statistics
- Lawson M3 Inventory Statistics provides relevant and up-to-date information on all your inventory and warehouse activities. It delivers comprehensive support for a variety of classification techniques such as ABC by frequency, contribution and volume. It improves logistics handling for reduced lead times, and ultimately balances inventory to satisfy demand while avoiding obsolescence.
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Laboratory and Inspection Control
- 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.
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Lot and Allocation Control
- Lawson M3 Lot and Allocation Control helps you automatically manage the complex problems in ensuring the right product and material meets each specific demand. You can handle all types of products, from simple stock-keeping units, to lot- or shelf-life controlled items, to individually serialized products.
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Manufacturing Execution
- 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.
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Manufacturing Order Processing
- 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.
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Master Production Scheduling
- 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.
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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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Planning Workbench for Food & Beverage
- Designed for food and beverage companies in need of better planning and better inventory visibility, the Lawson M3 Planning Workbench for Food & Beverage helps you visualize overall inventory together with resource utilization information, so you can make better short-term planning decisions.
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Product Data Management
- 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.
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Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) for Fashion
- 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.
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Production Statistics
- 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.
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QuickStep for Food & Beverage
- Lawson QuickStep Food and Beverage is an integrated solution focusing on making key information visible across the organization, and aiming to eliminate the "islands of information" that frequently occur in food and beverage companies.
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Improve product production while reducing operational costs
- Set order priorities, capacity constraints, and sequencing rules to schedule production orders. Optimize production schedules to make the most efficient use of resources. Improve collaboration between planning, purchasing, production and sales. Lawson provides a single, integrated system for production scheduling that delivers crucial visibility and coherence to help you increase your product production efficiently and cost-effectively.
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Improve the customer experience
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Retailers and other high-volume industries are aggressively evaluating technologies to obtain a deeper understanding of consumer behavior and enable timely responses to their needs. To profitably grow in this challenging market, many organizations are investing in technologies that directly impact the customer experience.
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Streamline and support manufacturing processes, including customer-specific product configuration
- Gain more visibility and decision making capability over manufacturing processes across the whole supply network. Better manage planning and quote development throughout design and customized configuration, manufacturing and after-sales service. With increased visibility you can maintain high-quality products while improving delivery times, labor costs and overall efficiency.
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