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.
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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.- Software
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Advanced Production Planner
- 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.
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Assortment & Replenishment 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.
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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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Distribution Requirements Planning
- 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.
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Distribution Order Processing
- Lawson M3 Distribution Order Processing (DOP) is specially designed diversified environment and is therefore highly configurable. It enables users to control the flow of material across their entire hierarchy of distribution warehouses, such as to and from central warehouses, subcontractors, and other manufacturing companies. It also handles financial and statistical transactions automatically as an integral part of the process.
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Lot and Allocation Control
- Lawson M3 Lot and Allocation Control helps you automatically manage the complex problems in ensuring the right product and material meets each specific demand. You can handle all types of products, from simple stock-keeping units, to lot- or shelf-life controlled items, to individually serialized products.
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Master Production Scheduling
- 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.
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Material Planning
- 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).
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Purchase Order Processing
- Lawson M3 Purchase Order Processing (POP) supports all purchasing activities including identifying what to buy, requisitioning, supplier selection, pricing, ordering, monitoring, shipment advice, transport notification, goods receipt, quality inspection, put-away, invoice control, and claim handling. Each purchase activity is individually configurable, offering flexibility for customization and automation of purchase processes. Extensive monitoring features ensure total control over all purchase activities and supplier delivery performance.
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Request for Quotations
- Lawson M3 Request for Quotations (POQ) is a strategic purchasing tool that sets the scene for the logistics execution of delivery schedules, e-procurement, discrete purchase-order processing, and purchase requisitions. Within POQ, requests for quotations are easily created for the purpose of agreement renewal or price inquiries for a range of products to one or several potential suppliers.
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Rough-Cut Capacity Planning
- 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.
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Supplier Evaluation & Statistics
- Lawson M3 Supplier Evaluation and Statistics (PSS) is an online analytical tool that measures supplier performance and evaluates the purchase order flow. Besides supplier evaluation information, detailed purchase statistics and summarized supplier statistics are also available. PSS helps users evaluate and rate their suppliers using combined performance indicators where important factors such as delivery accuracy, product quality and invoice quality are considered. From PSS it is possible to create displays and make printouts of the statistics to suit common needs.
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Supply Chain Orders
- The supply chain order automates the process of making a change to an order network and provides the ability to inquire on the status of the linked order chain and whether the current delivery terms can be met. Supply chain orders are especially useful in make-to-order and buy-to-order environments and can complement material requirements planning, advanced planning and scheduling, and lean manufacturing strategies.
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Supply Chain Planner
- 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.
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Transportation Management
- Lawson M3 Transportation Management (TPL) supports the activities in the distribution process. It supports both proactive and reactive planning and addresses your total transportation needs, accounting for weight and volume capacity considerations. It supports activities in the transportation process including document production for both domestic and international delivery. The route setup enables users to schedule deliveries on specific days of the week down to the exact departure time. Both point-to-point based routes and ring routes, including several unloading locations, are supported; users can even determine the order of the stops to be made at the unloading locations.
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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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e-Procurement
Lawson M3 e-Procurement is a sophisticated, yet simple-to-use, web-based application that automates and integrates and thereby simplifies many of the administrative tasks related to indirect procurement. Lawson M3 e-Procurement is not available in the US.
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- Gain visibility to entire supply chain (M3)
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Strengthen vendor management capabilities
- Using a secure Internet connection and standard web browser, vendors can satisfy their need to know the status of invoices, receipts, payments, inventory levels, and shipment receipt, anytime it’s convenient for them. The easy-to-navigate portal also provides a conduit for vendors to update their address and contact information.
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