Improve your Business Operation and Business Reporting with your Lawson M3 Enterprise Management System combined with Merit Portal.
• Merit Portal - efficient tools for simplifying and optimizing work processes
• Merit Portal - gives you easy access to your business critical data
• Increase and improve the use of M3 or Movex in your company with Merit Portal




Improved Order Management through easily deployed Portal Solution
In today’s rapidly changing and competitive marketplace, it is crucial to have efficient channels for your company’s sales management. Provide your customers or your sales resources with an efficient tool for entering and following up sales orders by combining the Lawson M3 Enterprise Management System with Merit Order.

Get competitive advantages for your business by making your product catalogues available on the internet, giving your customers instant access to your product list and related information such as product factsheets, pictures, sales prices and product availability. Reduce your administrative work by eliminating the need to enter the same information in several data sources; just do all your product information maintenance in your Lawson M3 or Movex application.

Switch from manual sales order handling or stand alone web-shop solutions to an integrated and efficient Sales Portal by implementing Merit Order together with your Lawson M3 or Movex application. Merit is focused on delivering a sales management solution that is easy to implement and administer, so you can focus on your value-adding processes.

• Merit Order is designed based on the Lawson M3 Business Process Platform, using your M3 business process definitions and settings together with the user interface and process flow configuration in Merit Order to provide an intuitive and efficient Customer Portal for your partners and employees.

• Use order templates in Customer Portal for recurring orders, or enter your campaigns as template orders, providing your customers with a simple and efficient process for placing new orders. Facilitate functionality by using Sales Order Search and Sales History to follow up the status of open orders or to make comprehensive sales history inquiries.

• Enable your customers to enter and follow up their own orders, enable your sales personnel to access their customers’ orders and give your internal sales people access to all sales information through Merit Order’s role-based user interface. Have access to Merit Order wherever you are; the only requirement is that you have Internet access. Use your PC when you are at work or at home and mobile equipment when you are on the move.

• Merit Order is integrated in real time with Lawson M3 and Movex, using standard M3 functionality. This ensures that all information in Merit Order – product information, prices, availability, credit check and order status – is up-to-date. Interactive validation of data input also ensures that information sent back to M3 or Movex from Merit Order is of good quality. Since all data available through Merit Order are real time data from M3 or Movex, no data synchronization or double data storage is needed, eliminating complex and time-consuming technical operations.

• Merit Mobile Order Management makes it possible for your customers or you together with your customers to enter sales orders using mobile handheld devices, thus eliminating manual order entry processes. This could be at your customer’s premises, or in your local store or warehouse. Mobile Order Management can also be used by your personnel to enter requisitions or distribution orders using bar-code readings, reducing manual back office operations.

• Merit Order is designed and developed by experienced M3 an Movex application engineers, which ensures that you get a robust and stabile application for your customer or sales staff’s sales interface. Merit Order is easy to deploy and maintain, providing a quick return on your investment.



Efficient Supply Chain Execution and Manufacturing Reporting made easy
Merit Logistics combined with Lawson M3 and Movex Enterprise Management System gives your business competitive advantages through more efficient supply chain execution and manufacturing reporting. Your business will achieve higher efficiency and better quality by using modern mobile technology and interactive or client-based Merit Logistic solutions. Merit Logistics is designed for distribution, manufacturing and other businesses that need flexible and robust solutions to achieve dynamic and user-friendly work processes. Through a simplified and efficient user interface, Merit Logistics includes support for executing all logistics and manufacturing reporting in Lawson M3 and Movex.

Increase your warehouse and manufacturing personnel’s productivity by eliminating manual reporting operations and paper-based routines allowing you to focus on physical value-adding tasks. Define your best practice work processes in M3 or Movex and use Merit logistics to optimize work processes.

• Merit Logistics is designed based on the Lawson M3 ERP Business Process Platform, using configured business rules in M3 together with the defined process flow in Merit Logistics to provide optimized work processes for your warehouse and manufacturing personnel.

• Real time integration makes sure that all M3, Movex and Merit Logistics users have correct up-to-date information about inventory and order status at all times. Merit Logistics uses the M3 or Movexdatabase without any need for data synchronization or double data storage in separate databases. Real time validation of data input ensures that M3 or Movex reporting is of good quality.

• Merit Logistics has scalable architecture with both an online web-based and offline client-based user interface on mobile equipment. This enables your business to run Merit Logistics through efficient and easy administrated browser solutions or to use smart client solutions for improved user experience. Merit Logistics can be used on handheld equipment such as PDAs, pocket PCs etc., or on truck terminals or regular PCs.

• Merit Logistics makes use of standard Lawson M3 or Movex functionality for integration purposes. This means that Merit Logistics is available for all M3 and Movex versions and ensures future proofing for updates. Merit Logistics supports M3’s extensive business process configuration possibilities.

• Merit Logistics uses bar-code scanning to eliminate time-consuming manual input and minimize the chances of entering data errors. By using bar-codes and touch screens on mobile equipment, your personnel can operate the system in harsh environments to perform reporting where the operations take place.

• Merit Logistics is a well-established and robust solution that has been used by companies for several years. It has been developed by experienced M3 application engineers, ensuring that your business gets the most out of your Lawson M3 or Movex applications. Merit Logistics is easily to deploy and maintain, providing your business with a fast return on your investment.



Merit Report & Analysis – for better decision making
Does your business put a lot of effort into detailed and comprehensive reporting in your Lawson M3 or Movex Enterprise Management system, but still have problems getting sufficient business decision support? Do you have complex processes or business structures and need to perform a lot of time-consuming and complicated tasks in order to produce adequate reports and key figures? Merit Report and Analysis will help you to meet your organization’s needs in a simple and efficient way. In today’s competitive and fast-paced marketplace, it is very important to make the right decisions at the right time. To have a high performing business, it is crucial to be able to uncover discrepancies instantaneously, so that corrective actions can be taken. Lack of information is not the problem today; the challenge is to find the relevant data and to provide it to the correct people to enable them to use it efficiently. Merit Report & Analysis combined with Lawson M3 or Movex Enterprise Management System gives your business competitive advantages through easy accessible decision support information that is available to all users throughout your organization. Define your key performance indicators and be able to monitor how your business is performing at all times.

• Merit Report and Analysis is deployed with standard data models and reports, ensuring fast and efficient implementation at a low cost. Merit Report and Analysis, together with data models and reports, is designed and developed by experienced M3 system architects and consultants, ensuring that you get correct information from M3 Business Performance Warehouse in the most efficient way, making Merit Report and Analysis the best choice for Lawson M3 or Movex users.

• Define roles for your Merit Report and Analysis users to meet different requirements based on their responsibilities and place in the organization. The users will only see data they have access to, providing both fast and easy access for the user as well as security for your company.

• Combine Business Scorecards and Multi Dimension Reports to allow you to easily navigate from a high level indication of discrepancy down to detailed reports and transaction level in order to uncover the cause of the discrepancy. Use graphical features to present your figures in an easy to understand manner.

• Use Merit Report and Analysis not only to analyze historical data but also to follow up the status of your business’s day-to-day operations. Do not just follow up financial and sales information but also information from your supply chain, manufacturing or maintenance operations. Through well-tested data models, you can both perform analyses and follow up the operational status of all areas in your M3 or Movex application.

• Merit Report and Analysis is available through a web-based interface that provides information to both internal and external users. Access your business decision support data via your PC while you are at work and via mobile equipment while you are on the move, or send generated reports directly to users by mail at regular intervals to ensure that everyone has the right data at the right time.
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