Lawson M3 Lot and Allocation Control (WLA) is a complete suite of features and functions that enables the disposal and tracing of inventory balances. It is fully configurable and can handle even the most complex situations. Allocation priorities consider conditions such as payment history, credit status, and customer loyalty. Built-in fair-share mechanisms can handle shortage situations. In addition, WLA can handle trade embargoes and other restrictions, as well as particular customer requirements such as quality and shelf-life specifications.
Lot & Allocation ControlLot & Allocation Control
Lawson M3 Lot and Allocation Control (WLA) is a complete suite of features and functions that enables the disposal and tracing of inventory balances. It is fully configurable and can handle even the most complex situations. Allocation priorities consider conditions such as payment history, credit status, and customer loyalty. Built-in fair-share mechanisms can handle shortage situations. In addition, WLA can handle trade embargoes and other restrictions, as well as particular customer requirements such as quality and shelf-life specifications.- 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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Analytics for Food & Beverage
- Lawson M3 Analytics for Food & Beverage provides fast, easy-to-use business intelligence. With KPIs and scorecard templates designed specifically for the food and beverage industry, it supplies integrated information that helps you manage your business more strategically.
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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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Attribute Control
- Lawson M3 Attribute Control (ATC) enables companies to use attributes as a complement to item numbers. ATC is the optimal solution for all environments with graded products. It supports the grading process from supply, through warehouse activities, to order fulfillment. Since ATC supports attribute-based stock and statistics, it is also a natural complement to the Lawson M3 Product Configurator, which mainly supports the dynamic design of a product structure.
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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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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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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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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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Graphical Lot Tracker
- Lawson M3 Graphical Lot Tracker was developed for companies using lot control that need to track and trace the links between different lots in their supply chain. Retailers are increasingly demanding that recall information is supplied almost immediately and Graphical Lot Tracker helps ensure that you can deliver. Graphical Lot Tracker improves quality and reduces the cost of performing traceability compliance audits with external auditors. It also helps forward-thinking companies prove the source of raw materials from licensed or approved sources and ethical suppliers. By being easy to implement and affordable to own Graphical Lot Tracker offers you short time to benefit.
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- Lawson M3 Graphical Lot Tracker was developed for companies using lot control that need to track and trace the links between different lots in their supply chain. Retailers are increasingly demanding that recall information is supplied almost immediately and Graphical Lot Tracker helps ensure that you can deliver. Graphical Lot Tracker improves quality and reduces the cost of performing traceability compliance audits with external auditors. It also helps forward-thinking companies prove the source of raw materials from licensed or approved sources and ethical suppliers. By being easy to implement and affordable to own Graphical Lot Tracker offers you short time to benefit.
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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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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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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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Procurement
- Lawson Procurement is an integrated application that seamlessly connects finance and purchasing to drive best practices in procurement operations.
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Product Configurator
Lawson M3 Product Configurator allows you to take sales orders for customized products and produce unique products for your customer. Tight integration between product definition and sales processes enables you to offer the right product to the right customer, assure customer-specific sales prices and supply a lead time for each specific order. You can also distribute unique variants of complex products throughout the supply chain without having to create a unique item for each configured order line.
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Purchase Delivery Schedules
- 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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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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QuickStep for Food & Beverage
- Lawson QuickStep Food and Beverage is an integrated solution focusing on making key information visible across the organization, and aiming to eliminate the "islands of information" that frequently occur in food and beverage companies.
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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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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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Stock Build Optimizer
- Lawson M3 Stock Build Optimizer considers forecast demand and product data such as shelf life, current inventory, production capability, production costs, resource capacity and alternative processes. The result is a feasible, mathematically optimized stock build plan that enables you to meet seasonal peaks and promotion spikes with less stock and at minimum cost.
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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 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:
