We offer the ideal solutions to digitalize the Furniture industry's Supply Chain. And we can prove it.

Focus on efficiency in a dynamic environment with critical synchronization.

The furniture sector is very dynamic, with sensitive demand characterized by a very wide product variety, pronounced seasonality and ever-shorter product life cycles. Production is also delicate, since it has many processes, high setup times, and any lack of synchronization generates a brutal volume of work in process. Not to mention quality issues that cause small batches to constantly drop in like parachutes, impacting productivity.

Companies served in this sector:

Neo supports your entire supply chain planning, from the long to the short term, addressing sector characteristics such as inventory balancing by product type, scheduling with color gradients in painting, drilling minimization and integration of sequencing with cutting plans.

Challenges in this industry:

Many Products and Components

The high number of parts per product and the wide variety of finished goods make production complex and prone to productivity loss.

Synchronization Between Operations

Different items of the same finished product must be completed in sync all the way to the furniture's packaging process.

High Setup and Wait Times

Alternately manufacturing components with different attributes all the time, like paint colors, is extremely costly due to the setups involved at the start of each operation.

High and Unbalanced Inventory

Difficulty planning coverage while evaluating inventory policies, capacity, costs, deadlines and seasonality.

What to expect from our projects:

Inventory Reduction

Better synchronization between operations enables a lead-time reduction, which lowers your WIP and also lets you reduce finished-goods inventory, since replenishment is faster. The solution's agility also allows reacting quickly to demand changes to avoid unnecessary inventory.

Productivity Increase

The scheduling rules will group items of the same color to produce in painting, and automatically generate a color gradient to reduce setups. The reduction in this and other sectors, combined with reduced wait times throughout production, enables efficiency gains that can exceed 10%.

Delay Reduction

Demand in the furniture market is highly variable, as is the very high number of SKUs. Visibility, scheduling agility and greater plan accuracy let us reduce delays and stockouts, since they are identified in advance, allowing simulations to take preventive actions and eliminate them.

Greater Agility

Harder than planning is replanning. A machine breakdown, rework on a component or a change in an item's demand can trigger a cascading effect to reschedule the whole factory. Responding to that reality quickly and with a good plan lets PPCP work be more analytical and decisive, rather than operational.