Flexibility to Keep Ahead

Uncertain demand, volatile costs, and shifting tastes, all put pressure on furniture and fixture manufacturers—and with pandemic supply chain woes barely over. In order to stay ahead of the competition, manufacturers must constantly adjust their processes to:

Correctly price new products and custom orders
Incorporate a wide variety of new inputs, from new organic or sustainable materials to electronic “smart furniture”
Rethink regional and global supply chains

Use Your Data to Operate More Efficiently and Adapt Faster

Gain a Complete View of Your Business

With integrated ERP technology, seize control and visibility into vital business areas, from inventory and purchasing to order entry, production, engineering, customer service, and finance.

Comprehensive ERP, materials resource planning (MRP), and product lifecycle management (PLM) capabilities
Integrated inventory management and warehouse management (WMS)
Advanced planning and scheduling to reduce waste and control costs

Improve Lead Times and Customer Satisfaction

Advanced planning and scheduling features to better manage incoming orders and provide shorter lead times. Accurately configuring complex made-to-order products to improve customer satisfaction and efficiency.

Easy-to-use scheduling tools
Capable-to-promise functionality
Rules-based product configurations for made-to-order products with thousands of options
eCommerce solutions that offer configure price quote for customers and dealers, right from your website and dealer portal

Use Your Data to Optimize Planning and Product Costs

Build forecasts and pricing with accurate costing at the product level, even with engineer-to-order work. Successfully match material purchases with production needs. Schedule downtime with inputs from machine data. Build “what-if” scenarios to mitigate risks.

Financial planning and analysis
Sales management
Inventory management
IoT (internet of things)
Business intelligence

Challenges Solved for Furniture and Fixtures

Efficiently Introduce New Products

Manufacturers need effective new product introduction (NPI) processes to quickly meet shifting consumer tastes. Epicor brings all project-related data into one system, with visibility from concept and design to BOM and production. This includes CAD system integration, product lifecycle management (PLM) product costing, and price quote configuration.

Predict Lead Times with Confidence

Epicor’s capable-to-promise functionality absorbs sales order requirements into scheduling, using appropriate finite capacity and MRP rules to offer accurate delivery dates.

Simple acceptance of the sales order moves requirements into production and procurement. Epicor takes myriad product configurations into account for scheduling and costing.

Build Seasonality and Trends into Demand Plans

Businesses need more advanced forecasting and demand planning methods to account for seasonality and trends.

Epicor’s Inventory Planning and Optimization Platform offers robust forecasting methodologies, optimization, consensus demand, and inventory planning tools.

Collaborate More Effectively with Suppliers and Dealers

Epicor for Furniture and Fixtures promotes tighter collaboration throughout the supply chain.

The system automates RFQs and any order changes issued to your suppliers, connects you directly via EDI, measures supplier performance on key benchmarks, and enables dealers to configure custom products through a dealer portal

Grow Your Global Operation

Expand to new markets, right-size your production, and source new materials across the globe.

Epicor has multisite, multi-currency, and multi-language product capabilities–in country-specific functionality. Receive global services and support to ensure regional and geo-specific compliance.

Effectively Manage Customer Relationships

Customer-centric strategies are as important to your business today as they have ever been. Epicor Customer Relationship Management (CRM) provides a 360-degree view of the complete customer, supplier, or partner relationship. Epicor CRM broadens the scope of customer information to everyone within and across the organization and to stakeholders beyond. We also recognize that you need to be able to respond to your customers’ requests in a fast and efficient way. Epicor Mobile CRM empowers your salesforce by providing mobile access to the entire CRM suite of capabilities on iOS™ and Android™ devices, so they can manage the sales cycle from opportunity to order shipment— anytime, anywhere.

Easy and Accurate Product Configuration

Manage the complexity of selling highly customizable products that include variables like color, finish, material, size, and much more. Epicor Commerce offers a comprehensive rules-based configuration tool that provides a fast and efficient mechanism to display all product options on one page—allowing your customers to easily choose their own product specifications without the stress of navigating multiple pages to find the combination that best meets their needs. Fully integrated with Epicor Commerce, Epicor Product Configurator enables web-based configurations that can be used for quoting and pricing within the Epicor Commerce solution.

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Once we implemented Kinetic we immediately benefitted from better visibility and real-time access to information - the system is very intuitive and easy to navigate.

Leisa McCollister

OW Lee

Solutions for Furniture and Fixtures Manufacturers