Automate and streamline back-office purchasing processes
Much is expected of today’s purchasing professionals — and not just in terms of sheer workload, but in the expectation that they will play a strategic role in the organization. Lawson offers automation solutions for over-burdened purchasing departments. With these web-based applications, your internal customers can create their requisitions online, and you can automate the requisition approval process. Lawson saves your purchasing staff even more time by allowing end users to shop directly at vendor-maintained websites, reducing the demands of maintaining an internal item master.
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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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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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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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Purchase Order
- Lawson Purchase Order helps you create and issue purchase orders, maintain your own item catalog, and manage the receiving process. Purchase Order helps streamline the procurement process - from establishing vendor pricing agreements and contracts, importing and maintaining item information, creating and issuing purchase orders, to receiving goods. As a result, errors can be reduced and suppliers in the virtual supply chain are kept informed. In addition, Purchase Order helps improve the accuracy and timeliness of information flow, internally and to suppliers. All of this can translate to enhanced vendor relationships and an improved organizational image.
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Services Management
- Lawson S3 Services Management includes Services Automation, which provides professional services organizations with tools to manage work, resources, time, expenses, and finances.
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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
- Lawson supply chain solutions are designed to drive inefficiencies and hidden costs out of your back office purchasing activities. Through process automation, strengthened internal controls and increased visibility to purchasing activities, these solutions help support your goal to ensure compliance with purchasing controls. Key applications include:
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- Lawson supply chain solutions are designed to drive inefficiencies and hidden costs out of your back office purchasing activities. Through process automation, strengthened internal controls and increased visibility to purchasing activities, these solutions help support your goal to ensure compliance with purchasing controls. Key applications include:
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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 and decentralize routine tasks in a consistent and auditable way
- At Lawson, we offer a broad range of tools and resources to help you automate operational tasks.
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- Automate human resources functions
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More Effectively Maintain Compliance
- Across the globe, compliance, risk management, transparency and business intelligence have become more vital than ever. In both the public and the private sectors, organizations must comply with countless operational and financial regulations and requirements – or face severe penalties. Yet these regulations are subject to continued revision and reform. Lawson can help your organization stay up to date on the regulations that impact your operations, and help you automate your compliance processes.
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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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Experience the Lawson Difference
Talk to a sales representative to learn how Lawson solutions for financial services could benefit your organization. Contact us at 1-800-477-1357 or use our online contact form.
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