Building Materials, Hardware & Tools
When you supply the building trade, your reputation as a reliable supplier is everything. That reputation is built on getting your customers what they need, when they need it. To do this well, and to do it profitably, you need visibility across your supply chain and the flexibility to act quickly. If an item isn’t in stock, you need to source it in time, or offer an alternative.While this is important for all distributors, it’s especially vital in your sector where the supply of products may be linked to a tightly scheduled construction project.
Lawson distribution management software can help you meet customer, supplier and sourcing needs quickly and efficiently while helping you keep a sharp eye on service, costs and margins.
Key Highlights:
- Advanced order promising at point of sale, taking into account availability, lead times, capacity constraints, etc.
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Auto balancing of stock across facilities.
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Handles complex price and commercial conditions.
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Multi channel sales
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Full access to information at the trade counter
- Advanced warehouse management, route management and planning functions
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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.
Key applications include:
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Business Intelligence
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Smart Notification
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- Enterprise Performance Management
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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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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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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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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
- 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:
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Lawson System Foundation
- 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.
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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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- 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
- Gain visibility to entire supply chain (M3)
- Improve inventory management
- 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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Learn More about Lawson Software for Distribution
Talk to a sales representative to discover how Lawson distribution management software can help your organization improve supply chain visibility, better manage trading relationships, and realize opportunities to increase your customer service levels.
