On July 10, 2023, the digitalization project jointly carried out by Shuang'ai Furniture and Soonfor Software was officially launched in Changzhou, Jiangsu. This project will help Shuang'ai Furniture achieve digital control across the entire process from business operations to R&D, planning, procurement, production, finance, and enterprise monitoring. It will realize an advanced management model featuring full integration of logistics flow, capital flow, and information flow, helping Shuang'ai Furniture become a model of intelligent manufacturing among home furnishing enterprises.
The Steel-Wood Office Furniture Market Continues to Grow
Shuang'ai Furniture Develops Rapidly
Located in Changzhou, Jiangsu, Shuang'ai Furniture was founded in June 1993 and is a professional manufacturer of steel-wood office furniture integrating design, development, production, and sales. Its main products include computer desks, study desks, steel-wood office furniture, and more. All products are exported to markets such as Japan, the United States, and Europe. After 30 years of development, the company has continuously introduced imported processing equipment and production lines from Italy, Germany, and Japan, keeping its R&D and production capabilities at a relatively high level in the industry. It has become a well-known domestic manufacturer of steel-wood office furniture, with abundant customer resources and a stable customer base, most of whom are globally renowned cross-border e-commerce enterprises.
In recent years, Shuang'ai has remained at an advanced industry level in both product R&D and production capabilities. It has abundant customer resources and a stable customer base worldwide, and the company is developing rapidly. Orders Gradually Increase
Various Management Problems Become Exposed
In terms of intelligence, Shuang'ai Furniture has always invested generously. In 2019, it introduced welding robots and upgraded its fully automatic powder coating line, all using the most advanced spraying equipment currently available in the industry. From robots to production lines, the introduction of automation has not only improved production capacity but also saved a large amount of manpower, laying a foundation for intelligent manufacturing at Shuang'ai Furniture.
With advanced equipment already in place, how to use digital systems to drive the company's overall operating efficiency and take Shuang'ai to a new level has become a key focus for Shuang'ai Furniture. Although the company had previously used an ERP system, it was not industry-specific software, so many characteristics of the home furnishing industry could not be handled. Most management still had to rely on manual operations. As the business scale continued to expand, the company gradually encountered various management difficulties commonly seen in the home furnishing industry. R&D Department: When creating BOMs for products of the same type and color, finished products cannot be copied and the process remains as cumbersome as creating a new product. When modifying materials in batches, quantities cannot be changed, let alone filtered and changed by product category. The auxiliary attributes of newly created components cannot be modified locally on the machine, and each change requires logging into the server. Business Department:Orders change frequently, after-sales replacement parts or repairs rely on manual tracking, and questions remain about how to improve on-time delivery rates and customer satisfaction, and how to determine product profit and loss. Procurement Department:How can suppliers be managed effectively, prices controlled, and order changes handled flexibly? PMC:How can urgent inserted orders be handled effectively, inaccurate manual material calculations by material control be solved, and inaccurate cost data be addressed? Production Department:How can problems such as high work-in-process costs, difficulty in complete-set matching, poor capital flow, uncontrollable waste, and lack of profit assurance be solved? Finance Department:What exactly is the actual cost of each product? These problems are only the tip of the iceberg. Although the enterprise can still survive without change, limited development would only be a matter of time. Fortunately, Shuang'ai's leaders are very wise and actively sought solutions after identifying the problems.
Launching the Soonfor Software Digitalization Project
Moving Toward a New Journey of Transformation
On July 10, 2023, the digitalization project jointly carried out by Shuang'ai Furniture and Soonfor Software was officially launched in Changzhou, Jiangsu.
According to Shuang'ai's management, they had long heard of Soonfor Software. Many industry peers were using Soonfor systems, and some company employees had also used Soonfor systems at other companies, with positive feedback. However, because the company had previous experience implementing systems, it knew this was something that had to be done but was also difficult. If the wrong choice was made, it would once again consume manpower and resources and could be a fatal blow to the company. Therefore, to be safe, the company spent more than a year carefully selecting software before finally deciding to join hands with Soonfor. In this project, Soonfor Software will help Shuang'ai Furniture start from the source, from the most important BOM with home furnishing industry characteristics, and sort it out systematically. It will fully connect business flow, information flow, and capital flow, realizing digital management across the entire process and full chain of the enterprise.
At the meeting, General Manager Zhang of Shuang'ai said, "The company has prepared for this project for more than a year and attaches great importance to it. We highly recognize Soonfor's industry professionalism. Competition in the furniture industry is extremely intense, and we hope that with the support of digital management, the company can stay busy without becoming chaotic. The company pays close attention to quality and efficiency. In selecting the system and planning information management, we considered a three-year, five-year, and even longer-term plan, so all personnel must fully cooperate with the project's implementation and launch."
Chairman Zhang of Shuang'ai concluded, "We have seen many successful cases in the industry, and enterprise informatization and digitalization are things we must do. Based on the principle that if we do it, we must do it well, we will fully cooperate with the project team to complete implementation and launch. We hope to see the system's execution results provide decision support for management. The project depends on everyone working together. Let us all make the effort together."
New Opportunities in the Office Furniture Industry
Environmental Protection and Intelligence Are the Trends As people place higher demands on office environments, the office furniture industry has also ushered in new opportunities. In recent years, steel-wood office furniture, whose sales have risen year by year, has been favored by users because of its advantages such as durability, environmental friendliness, long service life, strong flexibility, and good load-bearing capacity, with sales climbing annually. With the continuous advancement of technology, the design and manufacturing of steel-wood office furniture are also becoming increasingly intelligent. Today, high-end steel-wood office furniture brands already offer functions such as intelligent control and smart storage, enabling them to better adapt to people's work and lifestyle habits. In addition, as environmental protection policies are gradually introduced by governments in various regions, eco-friendly steel-wood office furniture will also gain greater market space. It is expected that the steel-wood office furniture industry will maintain sustained growth in the next few years. With favorable policies and the general trend in place, we sincerely wish Shuang'ai Furniture, with the support of the Soonfor team, early success in realizing its vision of "leading the industry with technology, building the future with quality, achieving employees through management, and building a century-old enterprise," as well as its grand strategic goal of "going global, leading the industry, and becoming the world's leading manufacturer of steel-wood office furniture."
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