M3 Advanced Production Planner (APP) is a powerful decision support tool for production planning and the scheduling of manufacturing orders. It takes into consideration finite capacity constraints and material flow from raw materials to finished products. It can help you increase your resource utilization and reduce inventory, work-in-process as well as lead times. Whether you have a simple or complex production, M3 APP can provides you with an integrated production scheduling system in order to provide crucial visibility for determining customer order delivery consequences.
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M3 Advanced Production Planner (APP) is a powerful decision support tool for production planning and the scheduling of manufacturing orders. It takes into consideration finite capacity constraints and material flow from raw materials to finished products. It can help you increase your resource utilization and reduce inventory, work-in-process as well as lead times. Whether you have a simple or complex production, M3 APP can provides you with an integrated production scheduling system in order to provide crucial visibility for determining customer order delivery consequences.- Software
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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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Capacity Requirements Planning
- Lawson M3 Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP) is the center of the capacity hub. By setting the scene and rules for capacity, it enables the user to utilize planning and analysis tools in Lawson M3, thus saving both time and money in the planning process. With CRP users can process resource requirements and load for either planned or released manufacturing or maintenance orders. CRP also interacts with Lawson M3 Advanced Production Planner (APP) and Multi- Site Planner (MSP), which facilitates powerful planning for finite capacity scheduling as well as synchronization of resources and load across several facilities.
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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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Engineering Change Management
- Lawson M3 Engineering Change Management (ECM) includes the necessary functions for the entry, distribution, authorization, final approval, and implementation of a company’s product changes.
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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
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- 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 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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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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Manufacturing Execution
- The Manufacturing Execution application delivers broad and deep functionality, superior flexibility, and an ability to execute so customers can reach their full potential in planning, executing, and controlling production in different environments. It supports a wide range of different manufacturing environments and strategies.
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Manufacturing Order Processing
- Lawson M3 Manufacturing Order Processing (MOP) enables users to customize their production planning and execution according to their specific needs. MOP focuses on all aspects of production activity control, whether you use discrete manufacturing orders or kanban / orderless approaches. The comprehensive configuration possibilities allow you to scale the system to fit any company size and adapt it to changes in the manufacturing environment. MOP has extensive functionality for the specific needs of traceability, laboratory inspection and approval, document management, in-process reporting, sequencing, by-product and co-product management, potency, and capacity planning.
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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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Planning Workbench for Food & Beverage
- Designed for food and beverage companies in need of better planning and better inventory visibility, the Lawson M3 Planning Workbench for Food & Beverage helps you visualize overall inventory together with resource utilization information, so you can make better short-term planning decisions.
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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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Product Data Management
- The Lawson M3 Product Data Management application is for product-centric businesses that need to maintain, store, and use large amounts of product-related data across various administrative processes.
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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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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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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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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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Improve product production while reducing operational costs
- Set order priorities, capacity constraints, and sequencing rules to schedule production orders. Optimize production schedules to make the most efficient use of resources. Improve collaboration between planning, purchasing, production and sales. Lawson provides a single, integrated system for production scheduling that delivers crucial visibility and coherence to help you increase your product production efficiently and cost-effectively.
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