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Thought-Provoking Commentary for the Lawson Software Community
Welcome to the latest issue of The LawsonGuru Letter, a free newsletter providing provocative commentary on issues important to the Lawson Software community. The LawsonGuru Letter is published by--and is solely the opinion of--John Henley of Decision Analytics.
Quote of the Issue
"When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest."
-- William Hazlitt
Trending Topics
Allow Transaction During Month Close
At month end, our inventory locations switch over to manual/paper processes for issues and other transactions. And then the next day they enter in all the transactions that were done manually. This causes problems such as orders not being generating the next day because SOH levels are inaccurate, and staff having to do extra work the next day to input all transactions. Is there are way to allow transactions to occur as normal, while keeping our inventory valuation consistent with GL? Read More
AR575 vs AR580
We have been using AR575 for a while, but the AR580 file format is much simpler. It seems that AR575 contains a lot of parameters in the input file, while AR580 uses a lot of these as job parameters. What are the differences, if any, in using AR580 for cash application vs AR575? Read More
New Payroll GL interface to Lawson Financials
Could use some guidance and reference points on best practices and lessons learned re' integrating a payroll solution to Lawson financials. Anyone have advice or sample file specs, etc. they would share? Read More
Interface with Insurance Carriers
Has anyone successfully accomplished exporting data from Lawson and importing into an insurance carrier portal? We would like to find a solution that will replace entering in Lawson and then entering the same information on each insurance carriers website. Read More
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John Henley
Decision Analytics
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