Lawson delivers best bang for buck in mid range manufacturing

Aberdeen provides several outputs from its overall study, and this result is specifically based on the 645 middle manufacturers in its survey – those with annual revenues between $50 million and $1 billion. The report says that Lawson delivers more measurable business improvement than QAD, Epicor, SAP, Oracle and Infor in this specific domain, given the same investment in software and associated professional services. Lawson delivered an average 22.9% improvement in manufacturing process performance – including an average 25% reduction in inventory costs, 28.8% improvement in delivery performance, and 18.1% reduction in operational costs. In contrast, in this category, Oracle averaged a 13.2% improvement in performance and SAP a 15.6% improvement. Moreover, each percentage point improvement in performance cost Lawson’s mid market customers $516 per user, versus SAP’s cost of $969 per user and Oracle’s of $1,791 per user. And Aberdeen also found Lawson significantly less expensive than the other two ERP vendors. What’s more, Aberdeen found that Lawson delivered an average 21.4% reduction in administrative costs and a 21.3% reduction in manufacturing schedule compliance, both significantly better than the other vendors studied. “These results prove that Lawson is not only cost-effective for mid-market manufacturers, but also delivers tremendous business benefits,” says Harry Debes, president and CEO of Lawson. “Aberdeen’s report validates what we have been saying since our merger with the former Intentia, that simpler really is better.”