Demand Planner
Lawson M3 Demand Planner (DMP) is a powerful tool for accurately consolidating and managing demand. It enables you to decide how best to use the company’s resources to maximize customer service levels, sales revenues and profitability. DMP uses client-server architecture to support a collaborative workflow, for a decentralized review and input of customer demand information. Dynamic grouping and data aggregation enables forecasters to view and adjust forecast and sales budgets. In addition, DMP contains extensive interactive decision support functionality with easy-to-use graphic displays.Demand PlannerDemand Planner
Lawson M3 Demand Planner (DMP) is a powerful tool for accurately consolidating and managing demand. It enables you to decide how best to use the company’s resources to maximize customer service levels, sales revenues and profitability. DMP uses client-server architecture to support a collaborative workflow, for a decentralized review and input of customer demand information. Dynamic grouping and data aggregation enables forecasters to view and adjust forecast and sales budgets. In addition, DMP contains extensive interactive decision support functionality with easy-to-use graphic displays.- 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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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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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
- Lawson Financial software creates the enterprise transparency you need to simplify complex financial management, track budgets to make your numbers, and prepare for top-line growth. Designed to offer you more effective cost-reduction strategies and more accurate forecasting, Lawson Financials enables you to respond more quickly to emerging trends and issues.
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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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Lawson for Food & Beverage
- Lawson for Food and Beverage is designed to help you increase your margins, manage risk and provide better customer service. It covers food industry issues such as shelf life, catch weight, variable attributes and more — and with full supply chain traceability, Lawson M3 software enables you to build confidence and trust in your brand.
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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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- Automate processes like stock replenishment and stock balancing
- Become more demand-driven and agile
- Better manage and more efficiently respond to consumer demand
- Constantly combat margin erosion (M3
- Maintain more efficient planning and scheduling operations
- Manage orders for multiple outlets across multiple locations
- Margin analysis and transparency and flexible pricing
- Shorten supply lead times
