1. Characteristics of metal furniture industry

1. Traditional industries
The furniture industry is a traditional manual industry with a long history. Although some links have begun to use mechanical operations as the scale of production expands, the overall degree of mechanization is still not high, and some important process links still use traditional manual or semi-manual operations. In terms of practitioners, the emphasis is placed on professional and technical talents and the neglect of comprehensive management talents. This tradition has created great obstacles to the reorganization of corporate business processes, and it is difficult to achieve the expected results by blindly copying those general models.
2. Complex BOM structure
Furniture products have complex structures and a wide variety of types, and the product replacement cycle is also short, which makes data collection more difficult. BOMs must be designed based on orders and are updated frequently.
3. Large differences in materials
The material properties used in the furniture industry vary greatly. Both regular and irregular materials are used in large quantities, making it impossible to unify material specifications. These factors bring a lot of troubles to material numbering, unit conversion, usage analysis, material procurement and inventory control.
4. The production site is difficult to control
In terms of production management, the control focus between each stage is different, so humanized production scheduling is required.
5. Production scheduling is difficult
The furniture industry has a large number of variable factors and high randomness in production, and it is impossible to operate step by step, which increases the difficulty of production planning.

2. Industry management priorities and common problems

Common problems with manual office work in the furniture industry
(1) Sales forecasts are managed manually, historical sales data requires a lot of work to collect, and the data is difficult to be accurate.
(2) Product styles change rapidly and there are many types of materials.
(3) The problem of scraps.
(4) BOM cannot keep pace with production and is updated very quickly.
(5) Product production is mostly a combination of order-based and inventory-based production models, which cannot be precisely controlled manually.
(6) The workshop process is highly manual and the operation process is not standardized, and the workshop personnel are managed in an extensive manner.
(7) The production progress is difficult to track, and the losses and slowdowns in the production process are difficult to control.
(8) Warehouse management is chaotic, and it is difficult for warehouse and sales staff to check the number of packages and the number of finished products that can be matched.

Management focus:
Four major challenges in furniture industry management - material coding, BOM information, synchronization of production plan and BOM update, and multiple production process routes.
The above are some of the problems in the furniture industry. Metal furniture must also consider multi-unit measurement, inventory moisture and rust prevention, and raw material tracking. Due to the heavy raw materials, when accepting orders and outsourcing, they face the problem of multiple batches and small batches, and the number of raw materials in the processor's warehouse must be queried, controlled, and tracked.

3. Huasheng’s solution　

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