Wood & Furniture

Furniture houses & Today's installers face countless new complexities in business. Product demand spans a wide range – from commodity to highly customized products. Customer needs are always changing - while competitive pressure for low prices is increasing. Brand differentiation depends more than ever on customer service and sales effectiveness. To stay ahead and grow in a tough market requires businesses to rely more than ever on understanding customer needs and delivering products and services to meet them. SAP can help meet these challenges. SAP for Mill Products is a comprehensive suite of solutions that allows for the management of all business processes. Design integration capabilities to enable furniture manufacturers to control costs and optimize management processes, from supply chain planning and procurement to distribution and order management.

Industry challenges regarding product and technology specificity:

With the same model, there are many different products between different customers/projects. Designs tend to change quickly and are diverse in types.
Same product, there are many different options for ingredients/semi-finished products (option part).
The same ingredient/semi-finished product (part) has many different production and manipulation methods.
The same type of wooden board can produce many diverse output products.
Product characteristics, BTP, complex materials: specifications, colors, designs, materials, accessories...
An order has many product systems, products that go together. A change in color of a product leads to changes in systems and products in the same order in a synchronous manner.
The production process is complex, with many steps, requiring workers, skills and high precision.
Difficulty in recording the actual consumption of raw materials to produce products and orders. Difficult to control schedule delays in the production process.
Produced under both MTO and MTS models.
Ability to quickly decompose raw materials and accessories that need to be purchased when there is an order/quote request from the customer.
Integrate CAD drawing design process/design software naturally.