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Eroding margins require tight cost controls. With Lawson solutions, your organization can improve your inventory, sales planning, and order management processes to reduce inventory and increase sales and margins. We’ll help you achieve that delicate balance between managing labor costs, product quality, and delivery and production lead time, not to mention managing contractors that can respond quickly to market changes, which can make the difference in maintaining profit margins and customer satisfaction.
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Budgeting
- Lawson M3 Budgeting (BUD) plays a major role in helping you reach strategic, tactical, and operational goals. A broad range of features is provided for defining performance objectives and supporting asset focus. Budgeting offers flexibility in budget creation, roll-ups, inquiry, and reporting. Other features include comprehensive budget analysis, multiple budget views, budget integration, and expense control.
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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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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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Customer Order Processing
- Lawson M3 Customer Order Processing (COP) customizes the ordering process to meet each business channel and its customers' unique requirements. COP offers an order process that is available both for an internal proactive contact center and via the Web, EDI, and portable devices. All the methods use the same business components, ensuring that all products, prices and conditions are available at one’s fingertips at all times.
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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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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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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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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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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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Pricing and Conditions
- Lawson M3 Pricing and Conditions (COS) supports the most simple as well as the most complex pricing structures. This includes managing the flow from planning and calculating prices and agreements through following up on results in sales statistics. COS supports a highly automated process that minimizes manual input and costs of order entry, billing, and credit note handling.
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QuickStep Distribution
- Specifically designed for mid-sized companies, our preconfigured distribution solution covers all the features and functionality you need to get up and running quickly. QuickStep Distribution delivers predefined but easily configurable menus, processes, templates and training. It reduces and streamlines the steps required for a customized system implementation, saving you time and money. Yet it’s flexible enough to be customized to your unique requirements. The result is an affordable solution that meets your immediate needs but also forms the basis for future growth and improvement.
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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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Risk Management
- Lawson M3 Risk Management (RIS) is a sophisticated tool that helps you protect your organization's assets. A broad range of features provides for defining, identifying, analyzing, and protecting corporate assets and transactions. As an advanced tool for all aspects of risk management, including trading, currency and customer risks, RIS offers flexibility when tracking, monitoring, and enforcing an organization’s risk management policies.
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Sales Management
- Lawson M3 Sales Management brings a common view to your commercial and logistical activities by connecting your planning, pricing, promotions, bonus and commission, statistics and follow-up to your fulfillment processes. It supports all aspects of your sales processes and is uniquely tailored to each channel and business area.
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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
- Efficient item maintenance
- 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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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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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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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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- Supply chain collaboration and optimization
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