Process Manufacturing (ERP):Lawson Software Lawson M3 for Process Manufacturing

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Lawson M3 for Process Manufacturing Overview

Lawson M3 for Process Manufacturing
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Lawson Software (Nasdaq: LWSN) provides software and service solutions to 4,000 customers in manufacturing, distribution, maintenance, and service sector industries across 40 countries. Lawson’s solutions include enterprise performance management, supply chain management (SCM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), manufacturing resource planning (MRP), and enterprise asset management (EAM). Headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota (US), Lawson has forty offices worldwide.

Lawson provides open, standards-based software solutions that fundamentally improve customers’ business performance. The open architecture of Lawson’s solutions gives customers superior quality, a low total cost of ownership and a path to a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Lawson’s technology platform--Lawson System Foundation 9--combines Lawson's newest technology with world-class middleware from IBM for a high-performance solution that delivers comprehensive security, scalability, and usability. It also preserves customers' choice of hardware platform while providing a foundation for next-generation Lawson applications designed for use within SOA environments.

Lawson is building its next-generation applications using its Landmark technology environment, which dramatically reduces the amount of source code and produces virtually error-free, consistent Java code. This Java-based code delivers interoperability that protects and extends Lawson customers’ existing IT investments while ensuring compatibility with future applications and technologies.

Lawson’s industry focus and flexible product design enables fast and easy deployment. The company’s expertise within its target markets allows its services teams to radically simplify the process of deploying Lawson applications. As a result, customers save time, effort, and expense in implementing, maintaining, and using Lawson applications. In addition, Lawson’s professional services organization provides industry-specific implementation advice focused on best practices and value delivery.

Any process manufacturing company can achieve full value-chain collaboration with Lawson Process Manufacturing, a fully integrated suite of software components that can be implemented individually or as a complete package. The solution supports total supply chain management and optimization, and efficient collaboration with suppliers, customers, and other partners. Lawson M3 for Process Manufacturing integrates all the activities in the enterprise and quickly leads to increased resource utilization, improved inventory management, and an improved bottom line.

Lawson M3 for Process Manufacturing enables effective, enterprise-wide collaboration by seamlessly integrating applications for enterprise management, CRM, SCM (manufacturing operations and enterprise asset management), operational business performance measurement, value chain collaboration, and e-business.

When users select Lawson, they have the freedom to implement precisely those applications that make business sense, and to add additional components only as they become necessary. Organizations will experience a surge of enhanced integration as each new application is added, because the power of Lawson M3 Solutions for the process manufacturing industry is not only in the individual applications, but also in the collaboration between them.

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