Building and Extending ERP Systems

Enterprise Resource Planning An organization benefits from the integration of their ERP systems by the elimination of stand-alone applications that isolate business processes to certain departments and operations. The result is straight-through-processing, application consolidation and reduced maintenance, which results in improved employee productivity, business process efficiency and operational effectiveness.

ERP systems are omnipresent in the marketplace, having been deployed over the past 25 years. They have become the core of many businesses and are now mission-critical. However, technology has progressed at such a rate that these systems now need to interoperate with newer systems and applications.

Over the past 20 years, to meet these new integration challenges, LANSA has been used by thousands of organizations to extend, modernize or replace their existing ERP system. Our customers have worked with more than 50 different ERP systems including BPCS, Friedman, IMAS, JD Edwards, MAPICS, Movex, PRMS, System 21, SAP and Navision.

The most popular LANSA-based extensions to ERP systems are eCommerce, Web Enablement, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Global Data Synchronization (GDS), online payment processing and business process transformation.

The LANSA ERP Frameworks is a fully
integrated suite of modules designed to
help manage most aspects of your business

In addition, LANSA also offers the LANSA ERP Frameworks that provides organizations with the opportunity to rapidly implement cost effective ERP systems, without the risk associated with ground-up custom development projects. They are proven business solutions built with LANSA technology and are much less costly than comparable packaged software and can be customized to satisfy your unique business requirements. The LANSA ERP Frameworks comprise a fully integrated suite of modules designed to help manage most every aspect of your business.

Financial Framework – General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Cash Management, Multi-Currency, Currency Translation
Distribution Framework – Order Entry, Customer Quotes, Inventory Management, Shipping, Billing, Purchasing, Cost Accounting, Sales Analysis
Manufacturing Framework – Production Data Management, Production Control, Material Planning, Forecasting, Cost Accounting

Customers who have implemented ERP solutions using LANSA

Carlisle FoodService Products, in Oklahoma, USA, is a leading manufacturer of professional grade tools and tableware for the foodservice industry. Carlisle sells over 50,000 products via a network of over 10,000 distributors to restaurants, hotels and hospitals worldwide. Since 1995, Carlisle has used LANSA to streamline procedures and increase ROI in virtually every area of its business. Manufacturing plants and distribution centers use LANSA ERP Framework and Carlisle's distributors have Web access using a LANSA site.
Read the Carlisle FoodService Case Study

Exploit Technology Co Ltd, Taiwan’s leading electronics manufacturer of LCD back light module diffusion sheets, reflector sheets and hybrid optical films, has replaced its obsolete and outdated IT systems, with Innatech’s Visual LANSA-based ARTS ERP system and IBM’s System i520 server. The new system’s accuracy, scalability and integrated modules have paved the way for public listing initiatives for this rapidly expanding company, as well as having streamlined its daily operations. The project took a mere eight months from the kick-off meeting to the system launch date. Innatech’s solution was selected after an extensive evaluation, as the company stood out for its ability to meet Exploit Technology’s tight implementation schedule, with experts skilled in IT technology and relevant industry experience.
Read the Exploit Technology Case Study

REHAU AG+Co in Germany is one of the largest polymer processing companies in the world, manufacturing components for the construction, automotive and medical sectors and for virtually every other industry. REHAU's small development team used Visual LANSA to develop its ERP system, deployed on 21 iSeries machines in 23 languages and used by staff at 170 locations worldwide. The system contains 1,500 physical files and 9,500 programs. Business partners have Web access and LANSA Integrator supports Web Services and XML transactions with third-party systems and SAP Financials.
Read the Rehau Case Study

LANSA solutions for building and extending ERP systems

LANSA ERP Frameworks is a fully integrated suite of ERP modules that offers one comprehensive, enterprise-wide ERP solution for distributors, manufacturers, and service providers alike. It enables companies to provide better customer service, drive increased efficiency, improve performance, and build competitive advantage.

LANSA Commerce Edition is an eCommerce framework that is designed to help you grow your business relationships with customers and trading partners online. Comprised of a suite of (B2B) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C) components that are built on LANSA's powerful application development platform and tools. These components allow you to rapidly generate eBusiness applications that integrate existing Windows or System i (iSeries and AS/400) RPG and COBOL applications with the Web and Wireless world. There is simply no faster way to effectively extend your applications to the Web.

LANSA Data Sync Direct is a scalable, easy-to implement solution that provides all the required GDSN compliant messaging for supply and demand side transactions and functionality. Manage your GTIN activity behind your firewall with workflow and a browser interface. Update product data within your organization as well as with trading partners.

Visual LANSA is the only Integrated Development Environment (IDE) you will ever need. You can easily add functionality to your existing core applications or build new innovative applications. Visual LANSA is a development tool tightly focused on just one thing – rapidly creating high quality commercial applications. But it is not simply a more productive IDE, Visual LANSA’s platform independent meta data repository and high-level business-focused 4GL lets you develop 5250, Web and Windows rich client programs – from a single code base.

RAMP from LANSA – the Rapid Application Modernization Process – is the fastest and most certain way to modernize and web-enable your existing System i applications. RAMP is a single integrated solution that addresses both your immediate and strategic modernization requirements. What's unique about RAMP is it's a "reengineering" product that lets you rapidly consolidate your applications into a graphic application framework and then incrementally replace your legacy programs with new reengineered components – in a timeframe that makes sense to your organization.

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LANSA gives us enormous productivity. Using templates, we can develop consistent programs in minutes that used to take us days in Cobol. With a team of six developers and one trainee, we developed and maintain a huge ERP system that is rolled out to over 20 System i machines worldwide in 23 languages.

Thomas Luckner, team leader System i development at REHAU

LANSA Commerce Edition for BPCS has considerably improved our service to the customer and streamlined our operations. We have basically taken away the reasons to make a phone call. Almost all the information our customers need is now available online. I expect a 75% reduction of inquiry phone calls to our call center and a significant reduction in phone and fax orders as well.

Frank Fedeli, Information Technology Manager for P.L. Porter

LANSA is the perfect solutions partner for Bigelow. The LANSA tools complement our existing software, BPCS and System i infrastructure. In times when hiring additional staff is just not feasible, LANSA's tools are proving to be productive, flexible and easy-to-use for my current staff.

Bob Dupree, IT director at R.C. Bigelow

LANSA is the power behind our core distribution system and the glue between our logistic systems. We can accept EDI, fax, phone and Web orders directly in our LANSA-based distribution system. And using LANSA Integrator we can exchange XML transactions with external systems that use WebMethods or Ariba. LANSA's development environment has given us the stability and the capabilities to develop our core ERP application. LANSA keeps evolving. We still view its technology as very up-to-date.

Rudi Deschilder, Manager eBusiness at Becton Dickinson