Protect my business from margin erosion (S3)
Considering the razor-thinness of profit margins, your retail enterprise needs business solutions that provide a rapid return on investment while extracting the lowest possible total cost of ownership. Moreover, you require a vendor and solutions that readily adapt to your growth, changing marketplace and new waves of technology. On all counts, Lawson strives to meet or exceed your expectations. We’ll help you improve cash flow, reduce errors and negotiate better vendor terms through automated three-way invoice matching. Plus, we’ll help you manage the entire scope of your financial operations to meet the challenge of a balanced scorecard.
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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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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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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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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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Smart Notification
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Financial Management
Lawson financial software creates the transparency that leads to improved budget management, effective cost-reduction strategies, more accurate forecasting and faster responses to emerging issues. Automate your extensive data-collection and management tasks and reduce data entry redundancies. Key applications include:
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Budget Preparation & Reporting
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Grant Management
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Compliance Control Manager
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Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable
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Financial Reporting Self-Service
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General Ledger
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- Financial Management (S3)
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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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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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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:
- Procurement
- Strategic Sourcing
- Contract Management
- Vendor Self-Service
- Mobile Supply Chain Management
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Point of Use
- Surgical Instrument Management
- Electronic Payment Connector
- Supply Chain Management (S3)
- 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:
- Acquire and manage top talent that is educated, experienced in my industry, and a good fit for my organization (S3)
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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 control costs for store space, labor expenses, and other operational issues
- Better manage and respond to peak-season demand - changeability, seasonality, inventory
- Better manage forecasting and inventory for accuracy and just-in-time product replenishment
- Gain visibility to entire supply chain to integrate and manage functions from warehousing and distribution to back office store systems (S3)
- Increase operational efficiencies, control costs, and manage spending (S3
- Manage orders for multiple outlets across multiple locations
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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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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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- More efficiently manage employee performance, training and career development
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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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- Protect net profitability
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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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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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- Use customer behavior to manage categories and promotional planning
Learn More about Lawson Software
Talk to a sales representative to learn how Lawson retail solutions can help you streamline your operations to improve your bottom line. Contact us at 1-800-477-1357 or use our online contact form.
