Stay Ahead of Your Competitors
Lawson Furniture is an integrated, multinational solution that is easily tailored to meet the requirements of any enterprise.
One of the most advanced systems on the market, Lawson Furniture has been specially designed to improve the performance of furniture production and distribution companies, from small local firms to multinational groups, by optimizing their business processes.
Our industry experts understand the specific demands and challenges of the furniture industry and have built Lawson M3 Furniture to simplify as much of the complexity as possible.
Particular attention has been given to address the needs of furniture companies that work in the global market.
Improved Business Performance
Lawson Furniture improves business performance in several critical areas. It simplifies planning, improves production control, distribution routines and cost control, and makes procurement more effective.
Lawson Furniture handles all types of products and processes in the furniture industry, provides support for total supply chain management and accommodates make-to-stock, design-to-order and assembly-to-order production. It generates the most cost-effective logistics process with a minimum of intervention. In addition, it helps you synchronize demand and production throughout your enterprise.
Dynamic Product Configuration
Lawson Furniture contains an integrated, comprehensive and flexible product configurator that can handle all kinds of configured products: stocked variants, products that are strictly configured to order, and standard variants that are configured to order. Standards can be based on valid, required combinations entered into the system and user-defined standard options such as those that depend on type of customer or country.
Using options, matrices or formulas, specifications entered in the product configurator during order entry or work order release determine the selection of operation, operation hours, material and material requirements. Material requirements, lead times and costs are then calculated automatically based on the specifications entered.
Broad and Deep Functionality
A standard system designed with client/server technology, Lawson Furniture is easy both to implement and to use, providing functionality in areas such as logistics, production, finance, sales, after-sales and personnel administration.
The industry-specific functionality in Lawson Furniture enables:
- Superior planning for raw materials, semi-finished products, production and inventory, and multiple warehouses and locations
- Integrated order flow between sales offices, distribution units and production facilities
- Optimized planning with comprehensive and efficient work order scheduling
- Dynamic product configurator with integrated functionality to handle products configured to order, or stocked variants
- Flexible pricing for discounts, internal transfer prices and product cost calculations, as well as comprehensive ABC functionality for product costing
- Efficient distribution planning with transportation resource planning, route planning and extensive document handling
- Multiple unit control for business units such as production, distribution, sales and warehouses in the same system environment.
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