How Contract Management works together with other applications

Lawson Contract Management is closely coupled with other Lawson applications, including Infor Lawson Enterprise Applications such as Purchase Order (PO), Inventory Control (IC), and Accounts Payable (AP). For example, a vendor agreement can be created from the Purchase Order application or from a contract within Contract Management. In another example, an item or a vendor item can be created in the Purchase Order and Inventory Control applications or from Contract Management.

Procurement data is easily interfaced from Contract Management to the Lawson Supply Chain Management application suite, including: vendors and vendor locations, diversity codes and manufacturer codes, vendor agreements, items, UNSPSC codes, and purchase classes.

In addition, rebates can be received in any of four ways: through Accounts Receivable as a check; through Accounts Payable as a credit memo; through Cash Management as a cash receipt; or entered directly in to Contract Management.

Contract Management also shares suppliers, events, and a pool of reusable information for events and contracts (such as terms, questions, contacts, categories/subcategories, and suppliers) with Lawson Strategic Sourcing. Strategic Sourcing is used to set up, maintain, and analyze complex bidding events. Contracts and contract lines can create Strategic Sourcing events and sourcing lines. Strategic Sourcing events and lines can create contracts and contract lines within Contract Management. For more information about Strategic Sourcing, see the Strategic Sourcing User Guide.

The following illustration provides a high-level overview of the Lawson applications Contract Management is closely coupled with.