The furniture industry in our country has reached a point where it can compete with the world in terms of both design and quality, and has become able to undertake very successful projects, especially in terms of exports. Furniture businesses need to use their resources more effectively in order to support the branding efforts of companies operating in the furniture industry, not only in terms of design but also in terms of production, quality and efficiency, and to easily compete with their world-class competitors at this point.
In addition to standard catalog production, furniture companies that can make customer-specific manufacturing with the options offered to the customer may have to do both mass production, order-specific manufacturing, and sometimes project-based manufacturing in batches. It is important that these different working styles are supported by the ERP system simultaneously. Many manufacturing companies that have progressed in the branding process have franchise stores and dealer networks in addition to their own retail sales points (Store). It is also important to manage the sales channel and ensure the traceability of its performance in matters such as effective management of sales channels such as dealer and franchise sales points, keeping commercial risks under control and managing sector-specific price links and campaigns.
While IFS ERP Applications support the above main requirements of the enterprises in the Furniture and Accessories Sector with Production Solutions, Sales and Distribution Modules with rich functionality developed specifically for the sector, IFS ERP Retail and Wholesale Applications provide the management of the sales channel. With the combination of other modules within the scope of classical ERP applications, a complete corporate solution is formed for furniture manufacturers.
Furniture and Accessories Many businesses in the manufacturing sector produce customer-specific furniture and accessories in line with customer requests, as well as standard catalog products. With its advanced product configuration module, IFS ERP ensures that orders and offers are received in an interactive, fast and accurate manner, thanks to questions directing them to the seller; It creates pricing according to the selected features and functions, and also ensures the automatic creation of the product tree and production routes required in the manufacturing processes.
IFS ERP, thanks to its expertise in production, allows companies that make customer-specific production, whether it is customer-specific design, order-specific production or order-specific assembly, thanks to its multi-level product configuration; It fully meets the configuration requirements of all levels.
Furniture and Accessories Manufacturing sector; It is necessary to be able to follow all order-specific processes, from receiving the order to capacity planning, from production to shipment, from tracking specific purchases to reservations, with just the order number. IFS ERP has a DOP (Dynamic Order Tracking) module, which has been developed for bespoke production. With the help of this module, all business processes from receiving an order to capacity planning, shipment, production and sales can be tracked with a single number. In practical terms, all productions depending on the order can be tracked on the basis of the order number.
Sales Management, which includes functions for managing commercial risk such as dealer risk control and collateral follow-up on a detailed basis, in addition to its features such as creating configuration-specific prices at the offer and order stage in order-specific products, taking orders on a set and set basis for catalog products. It also provides the follow-up of the prepayments (check-promissory note-advance) received from the dealers on a connection basis. Due to the volume of the products, shipping costs constitute an important item in the furniture sector.