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May 2025
 
Thought-Provoking Commentary for the Lawson Software Community
 
Welcome to the latest issue of The LawsonGuru Letter, a free newsletter providing provocative commentary on issues important to the Lawson Software community. The LawsonGuru Letter is published by--and is solely the opinion of--John Henley of Decision Analytics.
Quote of the Issue

“A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.”

-- Princess Diana
Trending Topics

Landmark APIA

Has anybody recently installed Lawson's APIA module and can share their experience with the application install/setup? Read More

Applying credits to open AP invoices

I am new to the Lawson system and after running a AP230 open invoices report I have some old invoices and credits that could clear each other out but I do not know to apply the credits to the invoices to take both off the Released status? Read More

Closing / Clearing Processes for Invoiced Goods

The local Accounting group has just taken over from another business unit, and recently begun to use the Invoice Goods Not Received (IGNR) functionality in the A/P system. We now have a debit balance building in our Invoiced Goods Not Received (IGNR) A/P clearing account and an apparent off-setting credit balance building in the Goods Received Not Invoiced (GRNI) A/P clearing account. Trying to make sure we've got the process steps down and understand if there is there a specific matching or closing process we should be running to clear the receipts against the IGNR in the G/L? It doesn’t seem to be affecting the matching/payment of the invoices. Read More

Interim Assignments

Curious how different groups on GHR are tracking interim assignments? We go live in October and plan to have supervisor structure tied to position. Our leaning is to give individuals additional work assignments and flag them as interim so they can assume the direct report structure tied to the position. Other suggestions were possibly using delegate functionality. Read More
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When a cyberattack strikes, security leaders must go beyond the incident response plan to ensure holistic preparation, effective collaboration, and strong leadership under fire.

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CIO, February 25, 2025

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Information Week, December 4, 2024

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John Henley

Decision Analytics

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