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.Warehouse ManagementWarehouse 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.- Software
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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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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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Average Daily Balance
- Lawson Average Daily Balance (ADB) provides visibility into cost of funds and loan yields for financial institutions. Average Daily Balance calculates average daily balances and cost of funds for your accounts. ADB amounts are used to track balances for the current period, quarter to date and year to date. Cost of funds can be calculated against the ADB amounts to report on the cost of deposits or the yield from loans.
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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 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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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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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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EDI for Supply Chain Management
- Lawson EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) for Supply Chain Management links your enterprise to its trading partners to electronically send transactions such as purchase orders, price/catalogs and invoices electronically.
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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.
Key applications include:
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Smart Notification
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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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- 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
- Become more demand-driven and agile
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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
- Better manage and respond to peak-season demand - changeability, seasonality, inventory
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Consolidate warehouse networks
- As customers demand high availability or short lead times, distributors have historically been forced to hold large inventory stocks. Distributors need tools that give a consistent view of all inventories and efficiently support all of the activities associated with storing goods. Lawson can help you organize your operations to maximize efficiency. Our solution helps expedite key orders, manage warehouse processes and resources, and ensure that orders are cost effectively and reliably delivered on time.
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- Constantly combat margin erosion (M3
- Gain visibility to entire supply chain (M3)
- Improve inventory management
- Increase efficiencies, control costs, and do more with less (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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- Manage hundreds of thousands of items in a flexible way with minimal administration
- Manage parts logistics more efficiently
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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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- Margin analysis and transparency and flexible pricing
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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
- Reduce time-to-market
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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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