QuickStep Distribution
Lawson QuickStep Distribution is a solution specially designed and preconfigured to provide features and functions that mid-sized distributors and wholesalers need. For growing companies, Lawson QuickStep can deliver the value and benefits of the integrated Lawson solution faster and more cost-effectively than many full-blown implementations using traditional implementation techniques.
QuickStep addresses not only the solution requirements but also the need to get the system live in a timely and cost-sensitive fashion.
QuickStep Distribution benefits include:
- Preconfigured and customizable, Lawson QuickStep provides the features and functionality you need to get up and running quickly.
- QuickStep delivers predefined but easily configurable menus, processes, templates, and training materials, using examples specific to the needs of mid-sized wholesalers
- Comprehensive core functions to use right away without reconfiguration, along with easy to use support and training materials which make educating new users on the system fast and repeatable
- Processes are easily adjusted to meet your specific needs during the QuickStep implementation
This combination reduces and streamlines the steps required for a customized system implementation, helps you save time and money, and takes the guesswork out of deploying the Lawson M3 Enterprise Management solution for distribution companies. The result is an affordable solution that meets your immediate needs today and affords you potential for tomorrow. Not to mention a faster ROI and time to benefit measured in weeks instead of months or years.
Lawson QuickStep Distribution is a solution specially designed and preconfigured to provide features and functions that mid-sized distributors and wholesalers need.QuickStep DistributionQuickStep Distribution
Lawson QuickStep Distribution is a solution specially designed and preconfigured to provide features and functions that mid-sized distributors and wholesalers need. Lawso- Software
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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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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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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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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.
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Business Intelligence
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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
- 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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Lawson Distribution Solution
- The Lawson Distribution Solution gives you the visibility and control you need to manage high volumes, thin margins and wide product assortments. It can help you to reduce costs, become more efficient and better serve your customers.
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Manufacturing Operations
- Lawson Manufacturing Management is designed to help reduce operational over-heads and support operational efficiencies in discrete, process, and mixed-mode manufacturing environments. Both simple and complex manufacturing environments can be planned, managed, and monitored with particular focus on increasingly complex regulatory control (such as traceability and shelf life).
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Mobile Solutions
- Lawson Enterprise Mobility is a set of leading edge mobility solutions for field service, sales, operations, route accounting and delivery forces. Enterprise Mobility is both tightly linked to other elements of the M3 suite and also a best-of-breed standalone solution.
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Opportunity Analyzer
- Opportunity Analyzer™ is a strategic enterprise performance management tool that enables you to set practical business performance targets and identify, in advance, quantified financial and non-financial gains before committing capital expenditure to new business process improvement projects.
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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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QuickStep
- A pre-configured set of solutions developed on a foundation of Lawson industry-specific knowledge and industry best practices. Think of these solutions as prototypes that can speed software implementation by pre-configuring a large percentage of specific processes within the application(s).
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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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QuickStep Government
- This predefined, flexible solution provides standardized best practices that allow you to implement your government ERP software more quickly and cost effectively. At the same time, QuickStep for Government is flexible, so you can execute continuous improvement over the long term as the needs of your public sector organization change.
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QuickStep Healthcare
- QuickStep Healthcare delivers industry-specific, pre-built content you can use to rapidly address your business needs with a solid business solution, which means a short-cut to benefit.
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QuickStep Manufacturing - our preconfigured solution
- QuickStep Manufacturing is ideal for companies who want to implement Lawson applications rapidly and easily, but envision growth ahead and need long-term scalability and continuous improvement.
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QuickStep for ESM&R
- QuickStep for ESM&R is preconfigured to provide the features and functions that equipment companies need from ERP without being a cut-down version of the Lawson solution.
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QuickStep for Fashion
- Lawson QuickStep for Fashion can help deliver the value and benefits of the integrated Lawson M3 fashion solution faster and more cost-effectively than many full-blown implementations using traditional implementation techniques.
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Rental Management
- Lawson Rental Management is fully integrated with the Lawson supply chain management and financial management applications, making it one of the strongest resources that rental companies can have. You can closely monitor expenses, costs, service levels, equipment failure rates and equipment utilization. You can also streamline your rental organization and create complex rental contracts.
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Service Management
- Lawson M3 Service Management handles your entire organization with one fully integrated solution, providing a foundation for building long-term partnerships with your customers. Designed for companies that operate a field service force as part of their operation. It enables you to manage, control and streamline your entire service organization, generating complex service contracts to promptly and efficiently handle service calls.
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User interface - Lawson Smart Office
- This desktop-personalization technology allows you to customize your information workspace. Rather than wasting time logging in and out of multiple applications, Lawson Smart Office gives you a single, easy desktop interface to access all of the Lawson and non-Lawson applications you use to do your job every day.
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Supply Chain Management
- The robust Lawson supply chain solution offers automated,
exception-based replenishment with built-in forecasting intelligence.
You’ll have full confidence that warehouse inventories are being managed
to provide optimal service levels with the smallest possible carrying
costs. M3 Supply Chain copes as easily with the configuration of
increasingly complex supply chains as it does with high volumes of
simple transactions, using flexible tools to help with strategic
decision making and operational control. Key applications include:
- Supply Chain Execution (including Inventory Statistics, Warehouse Management, and Item Data Interfaces)
- Supply Chain Planning (including Forecasting, Material Planning, Global CTP, Multi-Site Planner, and Demand Planner)
- Procurement (including Purchase Delivery Schedules, Purchase Order Processing, and Supplier Evaluation & Statistics)
- e-Procurement
- Mobile Supply Chain Management
- Supply Chain Management M3
- The robust Lawson supply chain solution offers automated,
exception-based replenishment with built-in forecasting intelligence.
You’ll have full confidence that warehouse inventories are being managed
to provide optimal service levels with the smallest possible carrying
costs. M3 Supply Chain copes as easily with the configuration of
increasingly complex supply chains as it does with high volumes of
simple transactions, using flexible tools to help with strategic
decision making and operational control. Key applications include:
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Lawson System Foundation
- The M3 System Foundation Suite provides and manages the essential applications and functions necessary to run and operate the M3 Enterprise Management System. It combines an industry-standard, open-run-time environment with the tools for managing deployment, security and performance for all M3 applications.
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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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- Attract and retain a skilled workforce that has industry experience and is good fit for my organization (M3)
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Automate Manual Supply Tasks and Processes
Whether you manufacture, distribute, store, rent, or sell products, the demand for effective, efficient operations is constantly increasing. These efficiencies can be gained with automated solutions from Lawson.
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Automate Manual Tasks & Processes
- Automating business processes across disparate applications improves response time, increases efficiency, improves internal controls, and reduces costs, delivering measurable results to your bottom line. Lawson helps you automate business processes by integrating application services and users to eliminate many costly, time-consuming manual operations.
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- Automate processes like stock replenishment and stock balancing
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Better Inventory Planning and Management
To achieve operational excellence, manufacturers need increased visibility from the top floor to the shop floor with the ability to view the status of orders, inventory changes, and overall process performance. Seamlessly connecting manufacturing processes with the enterprise layer requires a tightly integrated yet flexible
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- Better manage and more efficiently respond to consumer demand
- Constantly combat margin erosion (M3
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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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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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- Gain visibility to entire supply chain (M3)
- Improve inventory management
- Increase efficiencies, control costs, and do more with less (M3)
- Manage hundreds of thousands of items in a flexible way with minimal administration
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Margin Transparency and Management
When it comes to razor thin margins and a focus on profitability, every single decision you make -- about product, pricing, staffing, or logistics – impacts costs and revenues. The right software can help position you for strong growth in today’s competitive market place. Lawson can help provide a critical edge, supporting faster decisions, more cost control, and a tighter grip on margins.
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- Margin analysis and transparency and flexible pricing
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Operational Strategy
Growth is essential for company success. In most companies, growth strategies emphasize operational improvement. To reach continuing growth goals, companies will need to make smart investments in technology that can support their growth strategies and overcome barriers. And Lawson can help.
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- Optimize use of warehouse space for optimal stock levels and maximum customer service
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Quickly set up services in times of high demand
- QuickStep from Lawson offers a series of preconfigured solutions developed on a foundation of Lawson industry-specific knowledge and industry best practices. These “prototypes” can speed software implementation by pre-configuring 70-90% of specific processes within the applications. At the same time, these applications are fully functioning – not "light" versions.
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- QuickStep from Lawson offers a series of preconfigured solutions developed on a foundation of Lawson industry-specific knowledge and industry best practices. These “prototypes” can speed software implementation by pre-configuring 70-90% of specific processes within the applications. At the same time, these applications are fully functioning – not "light" versions.
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Relationship Management
- Gaining a competitive edge in today’s competitive global market is crucial, not just to succeed, but to survive. Across the globe, everyone is pursuing the same goal: attract, convert and retain customers. A key element to a superior customer relationship strategy is developing a proactive and collaborative relationship with vendors and suppliers throughout the entire supply chain. Lawson solutions are designed to help you gain the edge in relationship management.
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- Respond to volatile energy and raw material costs
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Shorten the time to implement my ERP solution
- Why undergo a time-consuming traditional implementation, or reinvent the wheel to create content for your organization from scratch? With QuickStep, you get the same scalability and integration ease Lawson applications are known for – you can even expand your use of enterprise software at your own pace. At the same time, pre-built, optimal industry processes from QuickStep give you immediate opportunity for business improvement, which can ultimately result in a faster return on your Lawson investment.
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Streamline HR Management
- There’s no question that people are your organization’s most valuable and important asset. In today’s economy, success depends largely on making sure that employees are not just doing the best possible job, but on ensuring that each employee is the right candidate for their position. And it depends on having a solid performance management and career development path. Lawson solutions can help you optimize your workforce and help your HR department contribute to organizational excellence with solutions that directly support business operations.
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Stronger Supply Chain Management
- Realize your vision for end-to-end process efficiency, cost savings, and service excellence. Improve visibility and control throughout your lean manufacturing operations or your professional services enterprise. Whether you’re in the services, manufacturing, or distribution related sector, Lawson offers you the supply chain management software for your unique industry needs.
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