How Inventory Control interfaces with other Lawson applications
This section explains how the Lawson Inventory Control application interfaces with other Lawson applications.
General Ledger
The Lawson General Ledger application receives journal entry information from Inventory Control for each period you define. The journal entry information includes journal transactions of each issue, transfer, receipt, and adjustment of an inventory item. Currency information is not used directly in the Inventory Control application, but it is used on journal entry information passed to the General Ledger application.
Accounts Payable
The Lawson Accounts Payable application can work with the Inventory Control application to send vendor information.
Requisitions
The Lawson Requisitions application sends information about requestors and requesting locations to Inventory Control.
Purchase Order
The Lawson Purchase Order application receives order information from the Inventory Control application in order to automatically create purchase orders.
Billing
The Lawson Billing application makes use of items defined in the Inventory Control application.
Project Accounting
The Lawson Project Accounting application receives activity information from Inventory Control. This information is used, along with budgets, to collect and report on costs and revenues.
Tax
The Lawson Tax application sends tax codes, tax tables, and tax rates to Inventory Control to calculate tax on items.
Strategic Ledger
The Lawson Strategic Ledger application receives information from the Inventory Control application.
Order Entry
The Lawson Order Entry application sends item information to and receives item information from the Inventory Control application in order to manage customer orders.
Franchise Management
The Lawson Franchise Management application makes use of unit of measure data maintained in the Inventory Control application.
Production Order
The Lawson Production Order application receives item information from the Inventory Control application.
Warehouse
The Lawson Warehouse application sends item information to the Inventory Control application.
Non-Lawson General Ledger
The Inventory Control application lets you send journal entries to a non-Lawson general ledger through a custom interface. In addition, Inventory Control is also able to receive inventory records from non-Lawson applications through a custom interface.