Experience the integration of eCommerce capabilities, next-generation CRM, rules-based product configuration, engineering and PLM functionalities, APS, meticulous quality control, and precise product cost analysis. These ERP software features collectively empower furniture manufacturing businesses to drive unparalleled efficiency in every facet of their operations.
For furniture manufacturers grappling with the intricacies of selling customizable products, Epicor has a rules-based Product Configurator, showcasing product options on a single page for faster customer decision-making. Integrated with Commerce Connect, it facilitates web-based configurations, perfect for quoting and pricing within one solution. Once order is confirmed, it transfers BOM, routing requirements, and special instructions directly to the production floor. You can also opt to transfer the configuration to engineering to automatically create CAD documents.
Cut down on waste with Epicor ERP. By leveraging demand management, inventory control, and MRP, this furniture manufacturing ERP software helps you manage cost and optimize buying power through forecasting and demand. With time-phased material control, you can minimize excess raw and finished goods inventory, and ensure timely goods delivery – which reduces storage costs. To accommodate seasonality and trends, the Epicor Smart Inventory Planning and Optimization Platform also offers tools accessible through a web interface.
Workforce diversification necessitates capability-based scheduling, whether based on employee skills or machinery. Epicor ERP has visual and multisource scheduling boards, color-coded load indicators, drag-and-drop and drill-down capabilities that enable master schedulers and production managers to handle changes and proactively address constraints. Epicor also offers capable-to-promise functionality for furniture industry manufacturers aiming to enhance delivery times and responses to customer inquiries. By absorbing sales order requirements into scheduling, and employing capacity and MRP rules, it ensures accurate delivery date commitments.
As a consistent innovator in global ERP solutions, Epicor boasts a state-of-the-art connected systems architecture that drives efficiency and connectivity. It acts as a high-performing and accessible service, facilitating connections among users, systems, and processes. Aside from enabling tighter collaboration throughout the supply chain, users can leverage automated processes such as requesting RFQs and sending change orders through electronic queues on supplier portals or via EDI. This enhances relationships with suppliers eventually driving positive bottom-line results.
Placing customers at the heart of your business is the cornerstone of Epicor’s Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Through this module, the wealth of customer information is accessible to all stakeholders – within and beyond the organization, granting a 360-degree view of the customer, supplier or partner. Its Mobile CRM equips your salesforce with the tools they need on-the-go, whether they use iOS™ or Android™ devices. Navigate the sales cycle from opportunity to order shipment - anytime, anywhere.
Recognizing the vital role dealers play in the furniture industry, Epicor Dealer Network Portal powered by Epicor Commerce Connect™ and tightly integrated with ERP systems, offers a modern online experience for configuring, pricing, quoting, and managing services and warranties. By centralizing dealer activity in the portal, manufacturers establish unified data, gaining full visibility into their operations while enhancing dealer relationships. This approach not only positions manufacturers as preferred partners but also propels business growth through customer-centricity.