Lawson Case Studies
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Surety Systems Helps Bed Manufacturer Rest Easy with Its Lawson AP Automation Project
OVERVIEW When you suddenly lose a key project lead on a strategic Lawson project, it can keep you up nights wondering how to keep that project moving forward. For one of the world’s largest bedding manufacturers, they can now rest easy knowing that its business-critical Lawson Accounts Payable (AP) Automation project can continue on despite the loss of its project lead, thanks ...
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Surety Systems Helps Manage Lawson/Oracle Upgrade for Maryland School System
OVERVIEW For schools to be successful, in addition to having quality and experienced teachers, they need an up-to-date IT and ERP infrastructure to manage and support the success of their staff and students. For a Maryland school system, upgrading its Lawson/Oracle ERP system for the first time in nearly three years was critical for continuing to manage and support its growing number of facilities, students, and ...
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Surety Systems Helps Regional Healthcare Provider Conduct Comprehensive Lawson System Audit
OVERVIEW To get the most from one’s ERP system, detailed, top-to-bottom audits can help organizations optimize their systems for future success. Recently, Surety Systems was called in to conduct a comprehensive review of a regional healthcare provider’s Lawson finance and supply chain applications, and endorse actionable recommendations on how best to optimize those applications across several hospitals. CHALLENGE The healthcare provider has been using Lawson technology ...
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Regional Supermarket Chain Partners With Surety Systems to Convert Business-Critical Reports to the Lawson Business Intelligence Platform
OVERVIEW In today’s world of information overload, accessing the critical information needed to make quick, informed business decisions can mean the difference between the success and failure of any organization. For many businesses, the Lawson Business Intelligence model is the answer to helping deliver business-critical information quickly to the people who need it to run their business effectively time and time again. ...
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Surety Systems Helps Global Women’s Apparel Company Protect Data
OVERVIEW When it comes to implementing an IT security platform across an enterprise, the lack of proper upfront planning, design and analysis by an inexperienced team can be the recipe for disaster. Just ask the women’s apparel company whose initial foray into using the Lawson Security platform created a major "hole" in their system that allowed unauthorized and unlimited access to any and all ...
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Lawson 9.01 Application Upgrade Case Study
Project: Lawson 8.0.3 to 9.0.1 Application Upgrade Industry: Manufacturing Business Challenges: This manufacturing client was upgrading from 8.0.3 and 9.0.1 and needed to update custom programs written in MF Cobol for the 9.0.1 application upgrade. Business Solution: Become familiar with the client's change management system to ensure SOX and J-SOX policies are followed. Provide analysis and implement modified source code where required for assigned Lawson Custom Modules for Lawson System Codes ...
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Lawson Absence Management Implementation Case Study
Project: Time Accrual to Absence Management Migration Industry: Retail Business Challenges: Our retail client utilized Lawson Time Accrual for many years and issues were arising due to Time Accrual’s limited capabilities. Therefore, they decided to upgrade to Absence Management. As an employer with multiple unions, one of the biggest challenges was to bring Union Human Resources into the fold. The union contracts needed interpretation and buy-in from multiple ...
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Lawson AR Implementation Case Study
Project: Convert their miscellaneous Accounts Receivable from a variety of Excel spreadsheets to the Lawson Account Receivable module. Industry: Energy Business Challenges: Our energy client has a variety of Accounts Receivable that are ancillary to their doing business as an electricity service provider. These receivables were being billed and maintained using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and Word mail merge applications. Payments received were posted to a paid column for ...
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Lawson HR / Kronos Re-Implementation Case Study
Client: University of Mississippi Medical Center Project: Re-Implementation Assessment for Lawson Human Resource Suite and Kronos Time & Attendance Systems Industry: Healthcare Business Challenges: University of Mississippi Medical Center had implemented Lawson Human Resources and Payroll approximately six years ago. The implementation was not complete and the utilization of functionality was below standards. In conjunction with the implementation of Lawson’s Financial and Materials Management suites, UMMC was looking to understand how ...
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Lawson Payroll Performance Tune-Up Case Study
Project: Increase Payroll Performance after Lawson Environment Upgrade Industry: Healthcare Business Challenges: After a major environment upgrade, this healthcare organization was faced with payroll performance issues which included long run times on large payroll jobs and slow database performance. High Level Business Solution: Created and facilitated a list of configuration changes that ultimately decreased large payroll job runtimes by 75% and increased ORACLE database performance overall. Business/Technical Solution Details: Configuration files were put into ...
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Peoplesoft HR to Lawson HR Conversion Case Study
Project: Peoplesoft HR to Lawson Conversion and a Lawson to Lawson Company consolidation Industry: Healthcare Business Challenges: Convert Health Network Labs from a Company Level to a Process Level in the HR suite. Convert and update all existing security. High Level Business Solution: Used multiple tools like Access, Lawson add-ins and Lawson conversion file layouts to extract, convert and upload data from one system to another. Convert all HR security classes to ...
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Lawson Application Upgrade from 8.1.3 to 9.0.1 Case Study
Project: Application Upgrade from 8.1.3 to 9.0.1 Industry: Healthcare Business Challenges: This healthcare client decided to upgrade their Lawson applications from 8.1.3 to 9.0.1. The driving factor behind the upgrade was to migrate from the Time Accrual (TA) module to Absence Management. For this to be a successful upgrade, it required all of their cloned and modified Lawson programs to be migrated to the next application version. ...
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