Lawson M3 Supply Chain Orders provides a powerful tool for linking the parts of an order network together. The solution is especially useful in a make-to-order environment and complements lean manufacturing strategies. Supply chain orders automate the process of making changes to order networks and provide the ability to enquire on the status of a linked order chain and whether the current delivery terms can be met. They provide customer-focused businesses the opportunity to integrate and manage their end-to-end supply chain processes.
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Lawson M3 Supply Chain Orders provides a powerful tool for linking the parts of an order network together. The solution is especially useful in a make-to-order environment and complements lean manufacturing strategies. Supply chain orders automate the process of making changes to order networks and provide the ability to enquire on the status of a linked order chain and whether the current delivery terms can be met. They provide customer-focused businesses the opportunity to integrate and manage their end-to-end supply chain processes.- 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.
- Analytics for Food & Beverage
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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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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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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
- 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Management
- The robust Lawson supply chain solution offers automated,
exception-based replenishment with built-in forecasting intelligence.
You’ll have full confidence that warehouse inventories are being managed
to provide optimal service levels with the smallest possible carrying
costs. M3 Supply Chain copes as easily with the configuration of
increasingly complex supply chains as it does with high volumes of
simple transactions, using flexible tools to help with strategic
decision making and operational control. Key applications include:
- Supply Chain Execution (including Inventory Statistics, Warehouse Management, and Item Data Interfaces)
- Supply Chain Planning (including Forecasting, Material Planning, Global CTP, Multi-Site Planner, and Demand Planner)
- Procurement (including Purchase Delivery Schedules, Purchase Order Processing, and Supplier Evaluation & Statistics)
- e-Procurement
- Mobile Supply Chain Management
- Supply Chain Management M3
- The robust Lawson supply chain solution offers automated,
exception-based replenishment with built-in forecasting intelligence.
You’ll have full confidence that warehouse inventories are being managed
to provide optimal service levels with the smallest possible carrying
costs. M3 Supply Chain copes as easily with the configuration of
increasingly complex supply chains as it does with high volumes of
simple transactions, using flexible tools to help with strategic
decision making and operational control. Key applications include:
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Transportation Management
- 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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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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Warehouse Mobility
- With Lawson Warehouse Mobility, you can quickly and easily connect your warehouse personnel to your total Lawson M3 Enterprise System. A solution designed with manufacturers and distributors in mind, it automates key processes in inbound logistics, in-store logistics, outbound logistics and inquiries.
- Warehouse Mobility
- With Lawson Warehouse Mobility, you can quickly and easily connect your warehouse personnel to your total Lawson M3 Enterprise System. A solution designed with manufacturers and distributors in mind, it automates key processes in inbound logistics, in-store logistics, outbound logistics and inquiries.
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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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