Project Accounting integration with other Lawson applications
This section explains how Project Accounting interfaces with other Lawson applications. The integration symbol indicates where integration with other Lawson applications occurs.
Non-Lawson applications
Project Accounting allows you to send data to a non-Lawson application. Project Accounting can also receive information from non-Lawson applications, such as point-of-sale or patient billing systems, through standard upload processes or custom interfaces.
Attribute Matrix
The Lawson Attribute matrix application provides attributes to Project Accounting. You can use attributes to track custom information in activities, then use the attributes for selecting activities in processing and reporting.
Payroll
The Lawson Payroll application provides employee and payroll information to Project Accounting. Payroll interfaces payroll amounts and labor hours to Project Accounting. In Project Accounting, you can assign employees to activities as resources.
Requisitions
The Lawson Requisitions application interfaces released requisitions to Project Accounting for commitment tracking. This allows you to see requisition cost commitments in individual activities. Cost commitments can be used in budget enforcement controls, and to post encumbrances to the General Ledger.
Inventory Control
The Lawson Inventory Control application transfers inventory information to Project Accounting.
Purchase Order
The Lawson Purchase Order application interfaces released purchase orders to Project Accounting for commitment tracking. This allows you to see purchase order commitments in individual activities. Purchase order commitments can be used in budget enforcement controls, and to post encumbrances to the General Ledger.
Accounts Payable
The Lawson Accounts Payable application interfaces released invoice amounts to Project Accounting. You can also assign vendors to activities as resources.
Asset Management
Project Accounting transfers capital project costs to the Asset Management application. You can update Asset Management with asset repair costs tracked in Project Accounting. You can also post depreciation from Asset Management to Project Accounting. In addition, you can assign assets to activities as resources.
Billing and Revenue Management
The Lawson Billing and Revenue Management application is an additional application you can use when your activities generate revenue. This application requires Project Accounting structures (activity groups, activities, account categories, etc.). You can also use Project Accounting budgets, allocations, and reporting.
Order Entry
The Lawson Order Entry application interfaces released orders to Project Accounting for tracking revenue commitments. Order Entry also transfers returns to Project Accounting.
General Ledger
The Lawson General Ledger application can update Project Accounting from journal entries and allocation transactions. Project Accounting creates capitalization, allocation, and activity journal transactions that interface to General Ledger. You can use additional General Ledger options to set posting controls, such as whether activities are required when transactions are posted to certain accounts or whether Project Accounting should be closed prior to closing General Ledger.
Strategic Ledger
Project Accounting passes transactions with user analysis values to the Strategic Ledger application for analysis and reporting on organizational profitability.
Grant Management Billing / Grant Management
The Lawson Grant Management application works in conjunction with Lawson Financials, Procurement, and Human Resources to provide a solution that integrates planning, payroll, purchasing, and accounting processes for the administration, tracking, and reporting of sponsored projects. The Grant Management Billing feature provides the ability to track the sources and uses of project funding for multiple funding sources on a single project contract.