Furniture
The furniture and fittings market is highly competitive and in many cases labour intensive. Businesses operating in this environment where large-scale automation is often difficult; are challenged to keep their labour costs low while developing and producing a large variety of products and finishes. More often than not, they have to manufacture or assemble-to-order in without holding large volumes of stock.
Common characteristics of the computers and electronics industry
Furniture manufacturers share many common characteristics:
- Highly competitive.
- Price and delivery critical.
- Demand driven - flexible manufacturing.
- Variety of products.
- Variety of finishes.
- Labour intensive.
- Large-scale automation difficult.
- Low stock holding.
- Long lead times.
- Market research and analysis.
SYSPRO addresses these challenges with the following modules from its extensive enterprise resource planning suite. Suggested modules include:
- Product Configurator Module.
- Bill of Materials Module.
- Work in Progress Module.
- Inventory Control Module.
- Requirements Planning Module.
- Factory Documentation.
- Quotations Module.
- Contact Management Module.
- Advanced Planning and Scheduling System.
- Forecasting Module.
- SYSPRO Analytics Module.
- e.net Solutions.
- Document Flow Manager.
