Lawson Introduces QuickStep Healthcare

Enterprise Resource Planning / Financial
Typography
  • Smaller Small Medium Big Bigger
  • Default Helvetica Segoe Georgia Times

Lawson Software has announced the general availability of Lawson QuickStep Healthcare, a pre-configured ERP application package that delivers full-feature, rich functionality enterprise software solutions designed to help healthcare providers achieve faster business results. The application suite is configured to address the key business processes for today's hospitals, integrating human resources, finance, and supply-chain management solutions.

QuickStep Healthcare combines Lawson's healthcare-specific content with built-in business best practices based on the company's deep knowledge of the healthcare industry and its proven implementation methodology. This solution will help reduce the time, cost, and risks typically associated with an ERP software implementation by pre-configuring approximately 70û90 percent of the key business processes required by healthcare organizations. Because it is pre-configured around these core business processes, QuickStep Healthcare is suited for community hospitals, while being scalable to meet the needs of multi-facility healthcare organizations.

Lawson QuickStep Healthcare delivers greater visibility into organization-wide information and includes Lawson Business Intelligence, delivering true operational business intelligence capabilities from the start. With the inclusion of Lawson Business Intelligence, QuickStep Healthcare delivers 11 role-based dashboards that focus on key business processes to help improve management of human resources, supply chain, and finance activities.

The new solution helps Lawson customers address healthcare-specific business challenges, such as:

  • Optimizing inventory levels to help ensure supplies are available when and where they are needed while minimizing capital funds tied up in inventory
  • Processing new hires, creating HR management reports, and administering benefits and employee absence plans
  • Establishing better supply chain visibility to manage vendor agreements and provide materials managers with information to facilitate timely decision-making
  • Helping minimize time and cost needed to implement new technology so healthcare organizations can focus scarce resources on patient care
  • Keeping track of financial information to meet compliance needs
  • Establishing a single, up-to-date source of information
"In our research among community hospitals, customers and prospects told us they want healthcare-specific business applications that offer rich functionality, yet are simple to implement and use," said Steffan Haithcox, healthcare strategy director, Lawson Software. "Based on our industry expertise and best practices from past client implementations, we tailored QuickStep Healthcare to directly address those needs."

Lawson is continuing along its stated path for rolling out QuickStep applications for many of the industries the company serves. Lawson previously introduced QuickStep Food & Beverage, in November 2006, followed by QuickStep Fashion in January 2007 and QuickStep Distribution in May. Industry analyst firm ARC Advisory Group reviewed Lawson's initial QuickStep solution and identified key benefits for Lawson customers.

"The deployment of pre-packaged vertical industry solutions can be extremely cost effective and rewarding, since faster implementation also implies quicker benefits and faster payback," said Houghton LeRoy, senior analyst-enterprise software, ARC Advisory Group.

"Lawson's QuickStep solutions permit customers to rapidly implement a pre-configured ERP solution using proven best practices to manage operations and customers. Longer term optimization of these requirements can then be accomplished through a good continuous improvement strategy."

Lawson serves more than 500 healthcare industry clients representing more than 4,500 facilities, including eight of the top 10 integrated delivery networks. The company also serves managed care systems, academic medical centers, hospitals, clinics, physician group practices, home healthcare, long-term care and other health services enterprises. Lawson solutions help healthcare organizations manage their business so they can focus on their patients, automate and streamline materials management for a better bottom line, and overcome the challenges of the labor shortage.

About Lawson Software

Lawson Software provides software and service solutions to 4,000 customers in manufacturing, distribution, maintenance and service sector industries across 40 countries. Lawson's solutions include Enterprise Performance Management, Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Relationship Management, Manufacturing Resource Planning, Enterprise Asset Management and industry-tailored applications. Lawson solutions assist customers in simplifying their businesses or organizations by helping them streamline processes, reduce costs, and enhance business or operational performance. Lawson is headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., and has offices around the world.

Lawson Software (Nasdaq:LWSN) is a global provider of enterprise software. It provides business application software, maintenance and consulting to customers primarily in specific services, trade and manufacturing/distribution industries. It specializes in and target specific industries including healthcare, services, public sector, equipment service management and rental, manufacturing and distribution and consumer products industries. Software solutions include enterprise financial management, human capital management, business intelligence, asset management, enterprise performance management, supply chain management, service management, manufacturing operations, business project management and industry-tailored applications. Its applications help automate and integrate critical business processes, which enable its customers to collaborate with their partners, suppliers and employees, reduce costs and enhance business or operational performance. Lawson is headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., and has offices around the world. Visit Lawson online at www.lawson.com. For Lawson's listing on the First North exchange in Sweden, Remium AB is acting as the Certified Adviser.

 

BLOG COMMENTS POWERED BY DISQUS

LATEST COMMENTS

Support MC Press Online

$

Book Reviews

Resource Center

  •  

  • LANSA Business users want new applications now. Market and regulatory pressures require faster application updates and delivery into production. Your IBM i developers may be approaching retirement, and you see no sure way to fill their positions with experienced developers. In addition, you may be caught between maintaining your existing applications and the uncertainty of moving to something new.

  • The MC Resource Centers bring you the widest selection of white papers, trial software, and on-demand webcasts for you to choose from. >> Review the list of White Papers, Trial Software or On-Demand Webcast at the MC Press Resource Center. >> Add the items to yru Cart and complet he checkout process and submit

  • SB Profound WC 5536Join us for this hour-long webcast that will explore:

  • Fortra IT managers hoping to find new IBM i talent are discovering that the pool of experienced RPG programmers and operators or administrators with intimate knowledge of the operating system and the applications that run on it is small. This begs the question: How will you manage the platform that supports such a big part of your business? This guide offers strategies and software suggestions to help you plan IT staffing and resources and smooth the transition after your AS/400 talent retires. Read on to learn: