Maintain more efficient planning and scheduling operations

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

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.
Assortment and Replenishment 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.
Demand Planner

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 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 Purchase Delivery Schedules (PDS) simplifies the purchase process in repetitive delivery environments with close supplier relationships. Delivery schedules replace individual purchase orders and can be published or sent to suppliers with optional frequency.
Purchase Delivery Schedules

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 Supply Chain Planner (SCP) is a powerful decision support tool for supply chain planning on tactical and strategic levels. SCP consists of an advanced optimizer that calculates ideal material flow and interactive decision support functionality with easy-to-use graphic displays, including a Scoreboard, load profiles and geo-graphical mapping. The Planner enables users to quickly drill down and locate key details, make decisions, and run "what if" scenarios.
Supply Chain Planner