World-Class Results
World-Class performers are meeting or exceeding the best practice benchmarks in the furniture and fixture industry. MAPICS gives you the tools to meet the unique challenges.
Exceeding Customer Expectations
Regardless of whether a furniture and fixture manufacturer is make-to-stock or make-to-order the opportunity to exceed customer and channel expectations fall into three areas: delivery, price and design. World-class furniture and fixture manufacturers that are able to provide accurate delivery promise dates, reduce product price (while maintaining quality), and offer product designs that meet current design preferences will see significant results in customer satisfaction. These goals are supported by excellence in new product design and manufacturing processes.
Cut Operating Costs
Price pressures in much of the manufacturing industry are increasing, largely due to the opening up of markets to global competition. This trend will continue as the quality of products produced in emerging markets improves. This translates into a competitive environment where survival is dependent on implementing cost cutting measures. Automation of manual processes, limiting overhead and providing better visibility to operations can dramatically reduce costs and provide the foundation for increased sales.
Reduce Lead-Times
The opportunity to gain competitive advantage by reducing lead-times is significant across the furniture and fixture industry, in both make-to-order and make-to-stock operations. In a make-to-order environment, reducing lead-times means automating the processing of orders from sales, through design, procurement, manufacturing and shipping. In a make-to-stock environment, reducing lead-times requires decreasing replenishment time in staging warehouses, most successfully accomplished through decreasing manufacturing lot sizes and optimizing of the location and quantity of finished good inventories. Reductions in lead-times create the opportunity (in both environments) to increase market share by increasing net throughput and decreasing the time to fill customer orders.
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Success Stories:
Canterbury Windows
uses MAPICS (now Infor) solutions to deliver complex, high-quality products with the speed and accuracy its customers need.
Rapid-Line
using MAPICS (now Infor) solutions, Rapid-Line is able to look forward, see potential problems and correct them before customers are impacted.
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