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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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.- Software
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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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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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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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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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Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) for Fashion
- Lawson for Fashion Product Lifecycle Management (Fashion PLM) is a comprehensive product lifecycle management tool that enables you to innovate faster, with more accuracy and with greater input from both your internal and external partners.
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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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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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Sales & Marketing Automation
- Lawson M3 Sales and Marketing Automation help you manage revenue and profit generation initiatives more effectively, enabling you to hold on to your existing customers as well as acquire new ones. It can also help you improve sales efficiency and implement sales strategies to suit different markets, customers and prospects.
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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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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 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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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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- Automate processes like stock replenishment and stock balancing
- Gain visibility to entire supply chain (M3)
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Introduce new products to market
- Getting a new product on the market is more of a challenge than ever. Not only do you have to ensure that consumers will want it. You also have to consider all of the behind-the-scenes costs: building it into your inventory; reserving warehouse space; setting up inventory tracking systems to account for the new product; marketing that product to your consumers; and reporting on its success. Lawson solutions are designed to help improve sales efficiency and implement sales and marketing strategies to suit different markets, customers and prospects.
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