Lawson M3 ERP Enterprise

Lawson M3 ERP Enterprise industry-specific solutions

• Lawson Distribution Solution: gives you the visibility and control you need to manage high volumes, thin margins and wide product assortments. It can reduce costs, become more efficient and better serve your customers.
• Lawson for Equipment Service Management & Rental: enterprise-wide solutions to link your sales, service, warranty, finance and rental departments with a single, scalable business system. You'll be able to manage your remote branches and field personnel with greater ease and efficiency.
• Lawson for Fashion: a comprehensive enterprise software system, specially designed for those in the fashion industry to give you the tools you need to improve profits and combat chargebacks.
• Lawson for Food & Beverage: designed to 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.
• 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.

What does Lawson M3 ERP Enterprise

Lawson M3 ERP Enterprise system manages and improves all the core and supporting processes in your make-move-or-maintain business:

• Customer Sales and Service
• Supply Chain Management
• Finance Management
• Enterprise Asset Management
• Manufacturing Operations

Developed over the course of 30+ years, Lawson M3 ERP Enterprise features integrated industry-specific functionality and a commitment to open standards, for greater flexibility and lower cost of ownership than competing systems.

With the full set of Lawson M3 applications, you can monitor transactions throughout your organization, including manufacturing operations, supply chain activities, customer and supplier relationships, warehouse and distribution processes and, of course, financial management.

Support for market development, sales and after-sales service processes. Working with single- and multi- channel sales environments, Lawson M3 Customer Sales and Service allows you to manage everything from simple discrete products to complex configured products and kits, make-to-order or make-to-stock, telesales and EDI. In addition, you can manage your sales channels using the same availability, pricing and fulfillment controls whether they are office or field based.

Synchronize maintenance with production plans to maximize efficiency, effectiveness and utilization. Lawson M3 EAM is a best-of-breed maintenance solution that provides asset data management, preventive maintenance, work order control, diagnostics management, and statistical analysis. An advanced service and preventive management system, along with easy-to-use work requests integrated into skills management and graphical scheduling, provides the basis for flexible, online work management features.

Control and optimize information, material and financial flows throughout the organization. Lawson M3 Supply Chain Management offers a powerful method for supporting the planning, scheduling, and fulfillment of an extended supply chain, resulting in optimum customer service levels and maximum efficiency and profitability. The Lawson M3 SCM software includes functionality for: demand planning; supply chain planning; plant scheduling; global available-to-promise; capable-to-promise; and procurement/e-Procurement.

Manage traceability, change control, configured products, product attributes, laboratory inspection, co-products and byproducts in discrete, process and mixed mode manufacturing environments. Lawson's M3 Manufacturing Operations enables organizations to centrally manage product definition for the entire integrated Lawson M3 Enterprise System. In doing so, it manages complex, configured, and attribute-controlled products and directly supports costing, planning, and execution. Further advanced functions support such best practices as Lean Manufacturing without sacrificing regulatory control or product complexities.

Capture, manage, control and analyze your business operations including the ability to quickly model critical trends. Lawson M3 Financial Management handles your accounting, budgeting, consolidation and reporting requirements. True multi-country, multi-company, and intra-company capabilities also allow you to manage multiple operational units even when they operate under different regulatory controls.

Lawson M3 ERP Enterprise is a multi-lingual, multi-company, multi-site solution with the flexibility to adapt to your changing needs. The result? A simpler solution, lower cost of ownership, and more business value from your investment.