ERP for furniture manufacturing: order to shipment in one system

Challenge

Custom furniture production was planned in spreadsheets and the shop foreman’s head: orders collided over machines and crews, materials were bought “with a margin, by eye”, cost was calculated after the fact — and a third of orders shipped late.

Solution

We built the ERP around the production cycle: an order breaks into operations with time norms, the system schedules machine and crew load and shows realistic dates at the sales stage. An order’s bill of materials reserves stock and generates purchasing needs — no more eyeballed margins. Costing assembles in real time: materials, labor, defects. Accounting exchange runs on payments and documents.

Result

Late orders fell from 30% to 4%: sales promises dates production can actually keep. Materials spend dropped 18% — reservations instead of over-purchasing. The owner sees each order’s margin before launch, not in a quarterly report.