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Welcome to
St George’s Park
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Graham Maxfield
General Manager
09:00 – 09:30
Strategy / Room 1
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Members
ABP
Acco Brands
Actelion Pharmaceuticals
Adams Foods
ANZCO Foods
Arjo HuntLeigh
ATC Lasham
Autobar
BDR Therma
Bison International
Briggs Equipment
Chemring Countermeasures
Dawn Meats
Dorel
Finning UK
Fletchers Bakeries
Fraikin
Hallis Hudson
Hallite Seals
H L Hutchinson
Horseware Products
IKEA
Irish Dairy Board
J Barbour & Sons
KWP Interiors
PHS Group
Polyflor
Pork Farms
Rexel UK
Scott Bader & Co
Sellafield
Toyota Material Handling
WD Irwin & Sons
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Green badges
Sponsors
Anthesis
APSU
BEC (Systems Integration)
CIBER
CLS Performance Systems
Essist Group
Excelogy
Hamilton Bradshaw VP
ICCG
KPIT
Load Systems
Logility
Meridian IT
Merit
Infor
Jacob, Joseph & Associates
Lincoln Ladies FC
MRC
Spacetec
Systems & Methods
Totalamber
Tribex
Utilities 400
Vision Solutions
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Red badges
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 3 full streams – Strategy (1), Finance (2), Technology (3)
 Common first 2 sessions (09:00 – 09:30) LUA Welcome & Update
(09:30 – 10:00) Toyota Case Study
 Coffee breaks
 Buffet Lunch
(10:30 – 11:00)
(14:30 – 15:00)
(12:00 – 13:00)
 Common final session
(15:30 – 17:00) – Business & Product Update (Infor)
 Prize Draws & Conference Close (17:00)
See back of Conference Brochure for details / timings
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LUA Mission Statement:
“The User Association is formed to look after the interest of its
members with regard to the benefits provided by their
association with Lawson Software and to encourage
information exchange between its members”
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2012 Annual General Meeting
Election of Committee Members
 Changes to Constitution
 Change to Association’s name
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LUA - 2012 Annual General Meeting
4 items for you to cast your votes: Re-election of Graham Maxfield as General Manager
 Committee Members
 Changes to the LUA Constitution
 Change / keep the name Lawson User Association
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LUA - Committee
The LUA Constitution allows for up to 12 Committee members
Members wishing to be on the Committee:Graham Maxfield
Jane Lawton
Kathryn Mclean
Mercedes Larrea
Patrick Verlee
Richard Davison
Rick Filipowski
Robin Irvine
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LUA
Briggs Equipment
Scott Bader
Infor
Victaulic (BE)
Sellafield
Polyflor
ABP
Hence there are 4 vacancies. Anyone wishing to stand please let me know
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Amendment to LUA Constitution
Other than in the name of the Association, the vendor name of “Lawson” or
“Lawson Software” shall be replaced with the name of “Infor”
Example – Mission Statement
“The User Association is formed to look after the interest of its members with
regard to the benefits provided by their association with Lawson Software and
to encourage information exchange between its members”
becomes:“The User Association is formed to look after the interest of its members with
regard to the benefits provided by their association with Infor and to encourage
information exchange between its members”
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Name of the Association
Options:Infor M3 User Association
Lawson User Association
M3 User Association
Movex User Association
M3 / Movex User Association
Movex / M3 User Association
Not:-
Infor User Association
Cast your vote for your first choice (1), then second choice (2), third, etc
Unless a first choice received 50% of the votes cast, we will eliminate the least
choice and re-allocate those to your second choice, etc until 50% is achieved.
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GAM3 PRIORITIES 2012
- Communication
- Partner Network
- Professional Services
- Support
- Product Enhancement
“Meet” via teleconference / Webex
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Xtreme Portal
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Strong, positive involvement from GAM3 & LGUG
Virtually continuous involvement since 18 July until post go-live
Weekly Meeting
User Testing
Environmental Profiles
CASEs
Knowledge Base
Documentation
Re-load Data
Fixes / Modifications
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Xtreme Portal
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Strong, positive involvement from GAM3 & LGUG
Virtually continuous involvement since 18 July until post go-live
Meta Data Publisher (lite version) is now again free of charge to
use within Xtreme, as used in Lawson CASE tool.
(Full MDP version remains chargeable)
Presentation
10:00 – 10:30
Technology / Room 3
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Product Enhancement Process
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PEP is run once a year
Only GAM3 members can submit Requests
Description, Reason, Benefit of Request.
Correlated into a single simple Spreadsheet
All M3 customers can Vote (November – December)
Each company has 100 points, but can allocate only 10 points
maximum to any Request
In January, votes are sent to Infor
In April (at Inforum), Infor provides feedback / commitment
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PRODUCT ENHANCEMENT PROCESS (2011)
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454 new enhancement requests (453 in 2010)
ALL user groups associated with GAM3 provided an input
Excel format
100 points to be allocated per Maintenance paying customer
Voting - 1 Nov – 31 Dec 2011
Only 74 companies voted (93 in 2010)
Full feedback at Inforum– (23rd April 2012)
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PRODUCT ENHANCEMENT PROCESS (2011)
2011 Initial Feedback – 23rd April 2012
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Planned (Awaiting Resources)
Completed (in next major release)
Under Development
Partially or fully solved (in M3 10.1)
Total
35
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84
166
39%
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PRODUCT ENHANCEMENT PROCESS
Changes for 2012
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Investigated potential new process with Infor
Some fundamental flaws in idea
No voting capability – No external focus – Open to all
No GAM3 control.
So ....... 2012 will use old Excel based system
But.......
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PRODUCT ENHANCEMENT PROCESS
Changes for 2012
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Investigated potential new process with Infor
Some fundamental flaws in idea
No voting capability – No external focus – Open to all
No GAM3 control.
So ....... 2012 will use old Excel based system
But.......
Companies which are members of multiple M3 User Groups
will be entitled to vote for each “fee paying” membership
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GAM3 – SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS
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International Operating Companies (IOC)
- meets quarterly
- Finance Roadmap – Product Enhancement Process
- Logistics Roadmap
Aviation Group
- Product Enhancement Process
Potential Other Groups
- Food ?
- Fashion ?
- ESM&R ?
- Manufacturing & Distribution ?
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Infor Ambassador Programme
Lynn Watts (Infor) in Vendor Gallery
Infor on the Road
Meeting Charles Philips & other Infor Executives
London, 25th October 2012
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09:30 – 10:00
Strategy / Room 1
When “Good Enough” is just NOT good enough