Lawson Strategic Ledger

The Lawson Strategic Ledger is a business performance management application that captures strategic business information for analysis and reporting using OLAP (online analytical processing) technology. This information can help you make informed business decisions in areas such as cost management, customer and vendor management, and revenue and profitability analysis.

Strategic Ledger stores transactions that originate in Lawson or non-Lawson applications. You can select and summarize transactions into strategic ledgers, which are transformed into multi-dimensional databases. Using an OLAP tool such as Lawson Scorecard, managers and decision makers can analyze data quickly and easily by reporting dimensions such as product, service, channel, contract or market.

This diagram depicts the flow of data through Strategic Ledger:

Diagram: Strategic Ledger data flow

Business example

To help demonstrate the power and benefits of Strategic Ledger, we use a business example throughout the Strategic Ledger User Guide.

Moose Wood Outfitters (MWO), sells camping and outdoor sporting equipment and clothing. Moose Wood earns revenues from retail stores and distribution methods, such as catalogs. MWO wants to analyze financial information for sales promotions and future growth.

These are the Moose Wood Outfitters characteristics:

  • Multi-million dollar company

  • Two stores in different states

  • Conducts business in the United States and Canada

  • Uses many distribution methods and sales channels.

Moose Wood Outfitters sells these items:

  • Children, men, and women outdoor clothing

  • Camping equipment

  • Books

  • Maps

  • Travel services

  • Outdoor sports equipment

    • Canoes

    • Kayaks

    • Hiking gear

    • Mountain climbing gear

    • Ski equipment

Moose Wood conducts routine sales promotions and has plans to expand and construct additional stores in new states.

MWO needs a user-defined attribute to track Quality Brackets to help determine if expansion is geared towards economy, moderately prices, or expensive high quality goods.

MWO will use a transaction attribute to help analyze vendor activity related to Accounts Payable transactions.