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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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).- 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 Manufacturing
- M3 Analytics for Manufacturing offers your organization over 70 predetermined, manufacturing specific KPIs and more than 50 scorecard templates, which speed up time-to-value. Based on common good practice, M3 Analytics for Manufacturing removes the guesswork from deciding which KPIs you should monitor and enables you to track multiple KPIs by individual product, customer, account manager, and more.
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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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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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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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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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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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Multiple Unit Coordination
- Lawson M3 Multiple Unit Coordination (MUC) allows you to use and configure Lawson M3 in a multi-site organization. The solution also enables enterprises collaborating in the supply chain to operate simultaneously within the same Lawson M3 environment. By administering organizations in different locations and countries as a single unit, Multiple Unit Coordination simplifies planning, logistics, and accounting for inter-company transactions originating in the group.
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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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Receiving & Delivery
- Lawson Receiving and Delivery (RAD), a component of Lawson Supply Chain Management, can help you transform a full range of package management processes, starting at the receiving dock and extending to the end user. Besides helping to increase overall efficiency, you'll improve the promptness and accuracy of supply delivery to clinicians and other internal customers, allowing them to devote more time to patient care.
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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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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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Yield Optimizer
- Based on forecast demand and existing and arriving inventory, Lawson Yield Optimizer generates an optimized production plan that indicates what quantity of each grade to process in each different way to most effectively meet demand. It dramatically reduces the planning effort and increases yields, which in turn improves revenues and margins, and maximizes profitability.
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e-Procurement
Lawson M3 e-Procurement is a sophisticated, yet simple-to-use, web-based application that automates and integrates and thereby simplifies many of the administrative tasks related to indirect procurement. Lawson M3 e-Procurement is not available in the US.
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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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- Maintain more efficient planning and scheduling operations
- Manage hundreds of thousands of items in a flexible way with minimal administration
- Optimize use of warehouse space for optimal stock levels and maximum customer service
- Respond to volatile energy and raw material costs
