Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) for Fashion
Lawson for Fashion Product Lifecycle Management (Fashion PLM) is a comprehensive tool for retailers and manufacturers of apparel, footwear, home textiles and accessories. This flexible, collaborative, web-based suite of applications facilitates the management of products, from design all the way through to production. It will enable you to innovate faster, but with more accuracy and with greater input from both your internal and external partners.
Fashion PLM has deep industry-specific functionality and contains over 300 out-of-the-box forms that can be easily configured without additional coding. Using a common interface and standardized features across applications, this suite is designed to help you manage complex processes more effectively.
Because Fashion PLM enables collaboration between internal and external business partners, different elements of a style or raw material can be owned by different users. It enables better vendor collaboration through the customization of roles. And because Lawson for Fashion can handle comments, samples and costing requests, you’ll find that true collaboration with your business partners is achieved more easily.
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) for FashionProduct 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. LawsoFabric & TrimFabric & Trim
Fabric and Trim is a one-stop checkpoint for material specifications, sampling and costing. It facilitates collaboration with textile and trim suppliers on raw materials. With its deep specification, testing and lab dip functionality, Fabric and Trim manages all aspects of materials development and helps achieve economies of scale across brands, divisions and categories.Line OptimizerLine Optimizer
Line Optimizer provides merchandisers with financial planning and attribute planning tools and visibility of the design process that they need in order to merchandise new collections at the beginning of each season. You can associate the attributes, planned selling price and estimated units for each new style developed by the designers in Storyboard, or directly in Line Optimizer’s line plan. The attributes and estimated buys on the line plan styles automatically roll up to the collection and division levels to compare with the financial and attribute plans. Current line financials and attributes can be analyzed against last year's and future financial and attribute plans.Product ManagerProduct Manager
Product Manager comes with an extensive list of best practice, out-of-the-box forms that can be customized and adapted to complex business processes. You can create products from scratch, from templates, from existing products or shared from Storyboard. A product can contain multiple size categories, and multiple digital files can be attached to each of its forms. The multi-level variations allow you to create parent, children and grandchildren relationships within the same product. You can also source your products from multiple vendors and create product sets.SourceSource
Source provides advanced costing functionality by size and color, with fully configurable costing scenarios and comparisons. You can even add different elements of calculations in order to map to complex costing processes. Costing quotes can be requested from different vendors and compared for optimal costing scenario approval.StoryboardStoryboard
Storyboard takes the offline process online by allowing your designers and merchants to rapidly develop themes, brand concepts and assortment lines boards and share internally and externally. Using templates from the library or by uploading images, you can create product, fabric, trim, embroidery, label, color, palette, print and pattern, construction method and silhouette assets. Assets used in a board can also be added to the library. Basic data can be entered on each asset.WorkflowWorkflow
Workflow provides simple and effective time and action calendars to track progress through the product lifecycle. It is a configurable tool that allows the creation of critical path activities. Tasks are associated to the different activities and are duration-based. Activities and tasks can be associated to styles for calendar management. You can assign tasks to status fields within the product, which can be automatically updated as the product goes through its lifecycle. Tasks can be set to repeat for a pre-defined number of times.- Software
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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.
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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.
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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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Average Daily Balance
- Lawson Average Daily Balance (ADB) provides visibility into cost of funds and loan yields for financial institutions. Average Daily Balance calculates average daily balances and cost of funds for your accounts. ADB amounts are used to track balances for the current period, quarter to date and year to date. Cost of funds can be calculated against the ADB amounts to report on the cost of deposits or the yield from loans.
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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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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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Cost Accounting
- Lawson M3 Cost Accounting (CAC) is an essential tool for integrating and analyzing manufacturing operations. It provides the checkpoint and gateway for all manufacturing and distribution-related financial information, and generates all logistical and production-related financial entries for Lawson M3. It supports cost breakdown and analysis and can distinguish between internal and external transactions, allowing you to view results from varying perspectives. Sophisticated cost analysis models indicate costs based on actual levels of production or activity. The system can take into account the activity level for a certain period and adjust budget values accordingly.
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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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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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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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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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Fabric & Trim
- Fabric and Trim is a one-stop checkpoint for material specifications, sampling and costing. It facilitates collaboration with textile and trim suppliers on raw materials. With its deep specification, testing and lab dip functionality, Fabric and Trim manages all aspects of materials development and helps achieve economies of scale across brands, divisions and categories.
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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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Inventory Control
- The Lawson Inventory Control application helps efficiently monitor and manage inventory throughout your organization. With Inventory Control, you record and track product movement to ensure that the right product, the right quantity and the right price is delivered on time to the right location. Inventory Control helps facilitate supply distribution and inventory replenishment.
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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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Lawson M3 Supplier Portal for Fashion
- Lawson M3 Supplier Portal for Fashion is an application that helps fashion companies to collaborate more effectively with their suppliers. It’s a web-based application, which means it’s easy to deploy and easy to access. It helps to reduce manual work, improve data accuracy and reduce the risk of errors.
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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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Line Optimizer
- Line Optimizer provides merchandisers with financial planning and attribute planning tools and visibility of the design process that they need in order to merchandise new collections at the beginning of each season. You can associate the attributes, planned selling price and estimated units for each new style developed by the designers in Storyboard, or directly in Line Optimizer’s line plan. The attributes and estimated buys on the line plan styles automatically roll up to the collection and division levels to compare with the financial and attribute plans. Current line financials and attributes can be analyzed against last year's and future financial and attribute plans.
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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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- Become more demand-driven and agile
- Better manage and more efficiently respond to consumer demand
- Better manage and respond to peak-season demand - changeability, seasonality, inventory
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Control design all the way through production
- Lawson offers a collaborative, web-based suite of applications to facilitate the management of products, from design all the way through to production. It will enable you to innovate faster, but with more accuracy and with greater input from both your internal and external partners.
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Current system lacks fashion-specific functionality to support business
- If you’re looking for industry-specific solutions, look no further than Lawson. Lawson Fashion is specifically designed for the fashion industry and offers much built-in functionality to handle the industry challenges of short-life-cycle style-based products, high volumes of SKUs, complex supply chains and volatile demand patterns.. With Lawson for Fashion you can manage non-style products, operate in a multi-language, multi-site, multi-currency environment, and simplify your global supply chain operations. Plus, we have a network of industry-experienced consultants, who are on hand to provide global implementation support.
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Find a scalable business platform that can adapt to and evolve with my business
- Can your current business platform support business growth while helping you maximize both sales and margins? Lawson solutions can. Built with state-of-the-art, Java-based technology, our enterprise management software offers high scalability, complete platform independence and the ability to run on any major operating platform. We’ll help you keep pace with rapidly changing customer and industry demands and help you quickly execute against that demand, all while offering you the flexibility to achieve sustainable business growth.
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- Can your current business platform support business growth while helping you maximize both sales and margins? Lawson solutions can. Built with state-of-the-art, Java-based technology, our enterprise management software offers high scalability, complete platform independence and the ability to run on any major operating platform. We’ll help you keep pace with rapidly changing customer and industry demands and help you quickly execute against that demand, all while offering you the flexibility to achieve sustainable business growth.
- Margin analysis and transparency and flexible pricing
- Reduce time-to-market
- Shorten supply lead times
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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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