Technology and Beyond
CIBER’s Lawson Software practice provides services that go beyond simply implementing and upgrading applications. We provide a full range of application, technical and project-related solutions to meet the diverse requirements of distribution companies.
CIBER meets the diverse requirements of manufacturers and distributors with:
- Software implementations, upgrades and interfaces
- Data conversions and migrations
- General maintenance and support
- Application and technical services
- Project management and change management
- Knowledge transfer programs
- Hardware and infrastructure technology
Lawson Wholesale Distribution Solutions
“Our biggest challenge is to retain our customer base and increase the average revenue per customer. To meet this challenge, we need to be responsive, competitive and easy to do business with”.
“Our business systems are old, difficult to work with and integrate to. This is impeding our opportunity to grow through acquisition and gain the advantages of scale we need to compete and remain successful.”
Do you need to become even more agile and customer-centric, while protecting your margins? CIBER can help. Through our partnership with Lawson Software, we are able to deliver complete business solutions perfectly aligned with the needs of the wholesale distributor. You’ve gotten where you are through years of hard work, attention to detail, and focus on to your customer. But unless you’ve upgraded your business information systems as you’ve grown, you probably see them getting in the way more than helping you grow. An integrated set of business systems driven by state of the art technology, and specifically configured for the wholesale distributor, can provide the advantage you need.
Why CIBER?
CIBER is a worldwide systems integration company with a vertical focus in every major market. Because we are focused by industry, we are big enough to deliver globally, but small enough to care locally. CIBER is dedicated to delivering successful implementations of market leading business software packages to our customers. Our definition of “success” includes business success for our clients, not just a good technical implementation.
As a long time partner of Lawson Software, we have provided hundreds of customers with successful business systems implementations utilizing Lawson’s S3 financial and human capital management software solutions. Our credentials also include broad experience in implementing supply chain solutions for warehouse and transportation management across many different markets. Through the merger of Lawson and Intentia, CIBER is now able to deliver successful, integrated business solutions for the wholesale distributor based on the M3 product line.
Total Solution for Distributors
CIBER’s extensive partnerships mean that we are able to deliver a complete, sourced and implemented business solution tailored to the specific needs of distributors. This total solution includes the hardware infrastructure to ensure your business applications operate at peak efficiency. It also means that we can support your business efficiency through the implementation and integration of mobility solutions including:
- bar code and RFID data collection
- voice picking technology
- remote data entry for both sales and delivery
Service Offerings
“We are unable to monitor changing demand patterns, and thus have too many out of stock, and overstock situations. This puts us in jeopardy of losing customers.”
“Our customers are placing more, smaller orders, overwhelming our ability to react in a timely manner. This is beginning to overwhelm our employees and our business systems.”
CIBER offers complete business solutions that help wholesale distributors meet their business challenges head on. We understand that success is more than installing and implementing software and related technology. Success includes helping a business absorb and leverage software and technology, and embrace change to improve its business processes, efficiency and effectiveness, both in the terms of the marketplace and in financial performance.
More than Technology
CIBER’s services and solutions for wholesale distributors include not only technology services, but also services to help your organization adopt, develop and grow with the technology.
Competitive Improvement Analysis
No organization wants to undertake a major technology implementation without an understanding that the time, money and effort spent will improve its competitive position and financial performance. CIBER’s Competitive Improvement Analysis, (CIA) can help you develop the solid justification you need to ensure investment success.
Due to our experience with working with hundreds of clients large and small across many different markets, we have the ability and knowledge to assess an organization’s processes, and identify opportunities for measurable improvement. From the front office to the shipping dock, we can identify and quantify ways in which improved technology, coupled with enhanced business process, can significantly contribute to improving your enterprise performance.
Implementation Services
CIBER can assist you with the implementation of an integrated M3 solution. All business components, from product procurement through warehousing, value added services, to order process and delivery can be implemented in a totally integrated environment. Our strong project management experience and proven implementation approach and methodologies ensure project stays on target, both on time and at cost.
Change Management and Quality Assurance
CIBER leverages the strength of your company and our expertise in providing change management and leadership through our proven CAFE (Change Acceptance through Facilitated Effort) program. Using our CIBER CAFÉ program with our structured and objective Quality Assurance Review process, eliminates project delays and overruns to ensure a successful completion of your project.
Integration Services
CIBER can help you integrate M3 with your current legacy applications, EDI systems, mobile devices, and connect to your trading partners through digital marketplaces. Our experience spans various common hardware and software environments, and we bring that experience to make the process fast and effective.
Business Process Improvement
CIBER’s Business Process Calibration (BPC) services provide structured assistance with a proven methodology for improving business processes and gaining maximum performance advantage through effective application of relevant software functionality. Unlike other approaches to business process improvement which can cause major disruption, BPC brings the organization together in pursuit of shared business objectives along with a sense of accomplishment.
Knowledge Transfer
CIBER offers complete services for documentation and training of your employees. Too many business system projects short-change this critical step, and as a result they pay the price. With our proven methodology and pre-developed templates, we provide documentation that serves not only to get the project launched effectively, but also to provide the basis for on-going employee training and development.
Look to CIBER as your Lawson partner for distribution services and solutions to help answer your business and operational challenges.
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