Lawson Introduces New Online Tool for Apparel Brands
Lawson Software, the St. Paul, Minn.–based provider of software and service solutions, has announced the debut of the Lawson M3 Supplier Portal, a new Web-based application designed to help apparel brands and manufacturers better collaborate with their suppliers when purchasing goods.
“Lawson Supplier Portal offers exciting new possibilities for meaningful improvements in efficiency and data accuracy,” said Freacute;deacute;ric Champalbert, Lawson’s general manager of fashion, in a statement. “Supplier Portal works directly with our full Lawson for Fashion business software system, helping to reduce the cost of deployment and long-term cost of ownership.”
According to the company, the tool offers online access to key information, including order tracking and delivery data, and helps improve collaboration between a fashion company and its suppliers by allowing those on both sides of a transaction to view and update the same data. “This functionality helps eliminate time lags, duplicate work and the risk of errors,” a release from Lawson said. “The system also helps reduce manual activities and streamline processes by creating automatic confirmation of order quantities, dates and prices. In addition, it can create delivery notes, which also helps to reduce manual processes such as faxing, e-mailing and managing multiple spreadsheets.”
Lawson is offering the new solution as a module with a cost-per-user license and no additional charge for individual transactions.—Erin Barajas
