M3 System Foundation
The Lawson M3 System Foundation is an innovative technology approach and the starting point for a new strategy to enable Lawson’s M3 customers to extend the value of and protect their investments by simplifying and decoupling technology layers from the Lawson M3 business applications.
This product provides Lawson M3 customers with necessary functions to run and operate M3 applications, and at the same time, benefit from industry standard, open run-time environments with support for administration, monitoring, managing deployment, security and performance.
Highlights of M3 System Foundation
- Decoupled technology
- Roles based Security
- Traceability
- Web Service runtime
- Application runtime
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Among the M3 System Foundation tools are modules for managing all system output, scheduling background jobs and providing comprehensive field audit trails.
M3 System Foundation centralizes all administrative activities involved in managing the system, reducing the cost of ownership, simplifying or eliminating non-value-added maintenance tasks and optimizing the use of expensive computing resources.
The M3 System Foundation Suite provides and manages the essential applications and functions necessary to run and operate the M3 Enterprise Management System. It combines an industry-standard, open-run-time environment with the tools for managing deployment, security and performance for all M3 applications.System Foundation (M3)System Foundation (M3)
The M3 System Foundation Suite provides and manages the essential applications and functions necessary to run and operate the M3 Enterprise Management System. It combines an industry-standard, open-run-time environment with the tools for managing deployment, security and performance for all M3 applications.The La- Software
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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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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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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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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.
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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
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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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Human Resources
- Power critical HR business processes.
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Lawson Distribution Solution
- The Lawson Distribution Solution gives you the visibility and control you need to manage high volumes, thin margins and wide product assortments. It can help you to reduce costs, become more efficient and better serve your customers.
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Lawson Manufacturing Solution
- From initial forecasting, material and capacity planning through to production planning and warehouse management, the Lawson Manufacturing Solution can help you run more efficiently and profitably.
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Mashup Designer
- Mashup Designer is a tool that helps you build composite applications that combine forms, visualizations, and data from different sources by just pointing and clicking. It can help make a task or process easier and more efficient by providing a process-oriented view of your business on a single screen.
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Manufacturing Operations
- Lawson Manufacturing Management is designed to help reduce operational over-heads and support operational efficiencies in discrete, process, and mixed-mode manufacturing environments. Both simple and complex manufacturing environments can be planned, managed, and monitored with particular focus on increasingly complex regulatory control (such as traceability and shelf life).
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Mobile Solutions
- Lawson Enterprise Mobility is a set of leading edge mobility solutions for field service, sales, operations, route accounting and delivery forces. Enterprise Mobility is both tightly linked to other elements of the M3 suite and also a best-of-breed standalone solution.
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Opportunity Analyzer
- Opportunity Analyzer™ is a strategic enterprise performance management tool that enables you to set practical business performance targets and identify, in advance, quantified financial and non-financial gains before committing capital expenditure to new business process improvement projects.
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Procurement
- M3 Procurement streamlines a company’s buying activity, reducing the cost of administration and execution, increasing the opportunity for significant cost savings through more comprehensive supplier management, and providing the necessary analysis to implement valuable supplier rating mechanisms.
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QuickStep Distribution
- Specifically designed for mid-sized companies, our preconfigured distribution solution covers all the features and functionality you need to get up and running quickly. QuickStep Distribution delivers predefined but easily configurable menus, processes, templates and training. It reduces and streamlines the steps required for a customized system implementation, saving you time and money. Yet it’s flexible enough to be customized to your unique requirements. The result is an affordable solution that meets your immediate needs but also forms the basis for future growth and improvement.
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QuickStep EAM Plant Maintenance
- QuickStep for Enterprise Asset Management is specially designed and preconfigured to provide features and functions that companies need, and can address the different requirements a wide range of asset-reliant companies demand.
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QuickStep Manufacturing - our preconfigured solution
- QuickStep Manufacturing is ideal for companies who want to implement Lawson applications rapidly and easily, but envision growth ahead and need long-term scalability and continuous improvement.
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Rental Management
- Lawson Rental Management is fully integrated with the Lawson supply chain management and financial management applications, making it one of the strongest resources that rental companies can have. You can closely monitor expenses, costs, service levels, equipment failure rates and equipment utilization. You can also streamline your rental organization and create complex rental contracts.
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Service Management
- Lawson M3 Service Management handles your entire organization with one fully integrated solution, providing a foundation for building long-term partnerships with your customers. Designed for companies that operate a field service force as part of their operation. It enables you to manage, control and streamline your entire service organization, generating complex service contracts to promptly and efficiently handle service calls.
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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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Supply Chain Management
- Supply Chain Management (SCM) offers a powerful method for supporting the planning, scheduling, and fulfillment of an extended supply chain, resulting in optimum customer service levels and maximum profitability. SCM features tools that provide visibility and control over the information, material, and financial flows throughout the extended value chain. This includes planning tools that cover the extended value chain down to individual resources on a strategic as well as an operational level.
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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)
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- 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:
- 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
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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
- Constantly combat margin erosion (M3
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Find a configurable system that can adapt and scale to evolving business needs.
- As your business continues to grow, you need enterprise management systems that can grow right alongside you. And Lawson can. Our robust, web-based systems can be easily configured to meet specific operational needs without custom programming. Whether you are on the cusp of opening new branch locations, in the middle of a merger, or at the forefront of a new industry, your Lawson system can be configured over time to meet the needs of your ever-growing and evolving business needs.
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- As your business continues to grow, you need enterprise management systems that can grow right alongside you. And Lawson can. Our robust, web-based systems can be easily configured to meet specific operational needs without custom programming. Whether you are on the cusp of opening new branch locations, in the middle of a merger, or at the forefront of a new industry, your Lawson system can be configured over time to meet the needs of your ever-growing and evolving business needs.
- Gain visibility to entire supply chain (M3)
- Improve inventory management
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Improve the accuracy of retail-related data collection, analysis and reporting capabilities
- Lawson solutions can bring powerful benefits to your retail organization. Instead of maintaining three or more item files for various applications, you have a single set of information which can be shared across your entire business. Your financial system captures transactional data from every location, anywhere in the world. Your executives analyze performance data at multiple levels of detail, whether by store, product line, region or other meaningful criteria.
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- Increase efficiencies, control costs, and do more with less (M3)
- Manage hundreds of thousands of items in a flexible way with minimal administration
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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
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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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- Supply chain collaboration and optimization
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Work with a configurable system that can support integrated business processes
- No two companies’ business processes are exactly alike. The design of your business processes is critical to your success. For example, synchronizing production supply and demand across an enterprise differs vastly between the different industry segments and depends on your individual company’s specific requirements. Solutions from Lawson, based on standard application, are always configurable to meet your company’s requirements.
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