South Jersey Healthcare Expands Lawson System with Multi-Suite Contract
Regional health system will use the new applications to consolidate business processes and simplify organization-wide reporting
ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 12, 2008--Lawson Software (Nasdaq: LWSN) today announced that South Jersey Healthcare licensed the Lawson Human Resource Management Suite, along with the Lawson S3 Enterprise Financial Management and Business Intelligence Suites. The organization will use the Lawson enterprise solutions to help simplify workforce management, improve financial transparency and create a single, unified business system. The contract was signed during Lawson's fourth quarter of fiscal 2008, which ended May 31, 2008.
South Jersey Healthcare is a nonprofit health system with 3,000 employees. It serves a population of 370,000 in the southern New Jersey area and operates SJH Elmer Hospital, SJH Regional Medical Center and SJH Bridgeton Health Center.
An existing Lawson S3 Supply Chain Management Suite customer, South Jersey Healthcare sought to create a unified business system to help simplify management of all core administrative processes.
"We chose to consolidate our business systems on Lawson based on its proven ability to help organizations reduce operational costs," said Thomas Pacek, chief information officer and vice president of information systems, South Jersey Healthcare. "The unified Lawson system can help us support growth by standardizing financial and workforce management processes and giving managers the information they need to improve decision-making."
South Jersey Healthcare will use the Lawson system to help simplify financial, workforce management and reporting processes organization-wide. For example, the Lawson S3 Human Capital Management Suite is designed to help the health system automate benefits administration and payroll.
The health system will also use Lawson Business Intelligence to promote more effective decision-making throughout the organization. For example, proactive notifications automatically created by the application can alert managers - via email, pager or PDA - to specific situations or business issues, such as a potential supply shortage, in time to take action.
"As patient volumes grow and reimbursements decline, healthcare providers need business systems designed to help them reduce costs and boost employee productivity," said Jim Catalino, senior vice president, Healthcare, Lawson. "Lawson helps hospitals improve workforce efficiency and better manage their supplies and financial resources with software designed to be simple to own, implement and use."
Lawson serves more than 500 healthcare industry customers representing more than 4,500 facilities, including eight of the top 10 integrated delivery networks. The company also serves managed care systems, academic medical centers, hospitals, clinics, physician group practices, home healthcare, long-term care and other health services enterprises. Lawson solutions help healthcare organizations manage their business so they can focus on their patients, automate and streamline materials management for a better bottom line, and overcome the challenges of the labor shortage.
About Lawson Software
Lawson Software 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, Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Relationship Management, Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Asset Management and industry-tailored applications. Lawson solutions assist customers in simplifying their businesses or organizations by helping them streamline processes, reduce costs and enhance business or operational performance. Lawson is headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., and has offices around the world. Visit Lawson online at www.lawson.com.
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