A: Our enterprise must adhere to the path of digitalization. If we do not transform, we will definitely die.
B: Digitalization is an inevitable path. This should not be called transformation. In this matter, cognition is very important.
C: If home furnishing enterprises want to shift to customization, the batch production model cannot make mistakes. To avoid mistakes, digital systems must be used.
D: Coming to Soonfor today, I learned a lot. In fact, digitalization means making everything visible, so management becomes clear at a glance.
E: In the home furnishing industry, integrated decoration must be a keyword, and the key to integrated decoration must be digitalization.
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On November 15, the 11th Soonfor Academy Private Board Meeting, Finished Furniture to Customization Special Session, was successfully held at Soonfor Software's Dongguan headquarters. During the brainstorming session, entrepreneurs freely expressed their views and shared some of their thoughts from attending this private board meeting.
Soonfor Academy Private Board Meetings have now been held for 11 consecutive sessions, sharing digital top-level thinking, overall planning, implementation solutions, and more for different home furnishing segments, and have received unanimous praise from home furnishing entrepreneurs across the country. This event was also supported on site by Xu Xiuhua, president of the Integrated Decoration Industry Alliance, and Gu Haodong, president of the Chengdu Furniture Industry Chamber of Commerce. Let us review the event site together.
Experience learning: entering Soonfor Dongguan headquarters
Soonfor senior consultant Feng Shana gave detailed explanations to entrepreneurs who had traveled from across the country, including learning overall digital planning through a home furnishing sandbox with sound, light, and electricity, experiencing the C2M intelligent manufacturing model at the principle factory, and discussing management pain points and difficulties in the home furnishing industry at the home furnishing experience center.
Expert course: Finished furniture to customization, digital top-level thinking
Zhang Aiguo, chairman of Soonfor Software, taught a course titled Digital Top-Level Thinking for Finished Furniture Shifting to Customization. From intelligent marketing to intelligent manufacturing, from macro analysis of the industrial chain to enterprise operating strategies and then to the ultimate goal of intelligent manufacturing Industry 4.0, this course helped everyone understand that behind digitalization are extreme standardization and full-chain connection. For enterprises to succeed in digital transformation, they need to understand the underlying logic behind it, so they can make overall plans and find suitable transformation paths.
Solution analysis: Finished furniture to customization, integrated digital solution
After Chairman Zhang shared top-level thinking, Soonfor Software senior consultant Lai Yuxiang gave a detailed explanation titled Finished Furniture to Customization: Integrated Digital Solution, explaining 69 key management nodes and implementation solutions for home furnishing enterprises. This helped everyone clearly understand how each key node should be managed, how efficient collaboration can be achieved, and how the goals of cost reduction and efficiency improvement can be reached, helping enterprises realize full-chain digitalization.
Implementation case: Finished furniture to customization, in-depth analysis of a lighthouse case
As an integrated digital solution provider for the pan-home furnishing industry, Soonfor Software has successfully helped more than 3,000 large and medium-sized home furnishing enterprises complete digital transformation over more than 20 years. Teacher Ma from Soonfor Intelligent Manufacturing conducted an in-depth analysis of a lighthouse case for finished furniture shifting to customization. Based on personal experience coaching enterprises to successfully shift from finished furniture to customization and integrated decoration, he shared the transformation journey of the lighthouse case and summarized the 12 key steps of six definitions plus six constructions that must be done when finished furniture shifts to customization.
Brainstorming: Finished furniture to customization, pain point sharing and solution discussion
During the brainstorming session, home furnishing entrepreneurs actively and enthusiastically spoke about their companies' management pain points and difficulties, as well as their views and insights on digitalization.
Leader A: Digital transformation is an inevitable trend, and our enterprise has always insisted on following the digitalization path in management. But this path is also quite difficult, and many people oppose it. This is a process of resistance and balance, and we will persist to the end.
Leader B: I think cognition is very important in digital transformation. Digitalization should not be called transformation; it is something that must be done. The service provider our company previously chose can no longer even be found, so I suggest everyone keep their eyes open during selection and find the right service provider.
Leader C: There are many management links in custom furniture. To do this well, standardization and digitalization are very critical. Today I saw the lighthouse case shared by Soonfor and found that many of its management models are very good. I also want to use this method for management after returning.
Leader D: Through an afternoon of on-site visits and study courses, I found that Soonfor truly penetrates deeply into the home furnishing industry, and it is definitely not an outsider guiding insiders. Today, leading companies in the industry are all doing digitalization. We must learn their good management methods and then combine them with our own enterprise to find management solutions suitable for ourselves.
Leader E: Today I learned a lot of digital knowledge. In fact, digitalization means making everything visible. When our enterprise initially promoted digital management, many grassroots employees did not understand it at all. We persevered, overcame all difficulties, and promoted the system step by step, bearing great pressure. Now we clearly see the benefits digitalization has brought us.
Leader F: In our industry, I think integrated decoration must be a keyword for future development. Such a complex business as integrated decoration needs digitalization even more.
After everyone finished speaking, Chairman Zhang of Soonfor added the following points:
1. Fully understand the important value digitalization brings to enterprises;
2. Understand key digital technologies, such as product modeling and production line balancing;
3. Do not fall into cognitive misunderstandings, such as using tool software as management software or using management software as a tool. This will only lower the enterprise's management level.
4. Digital vision should be long-term. Stand at a higher level to view the enterprise and look at the present with the future in mind.
Summary
In this era full of change, the transformation of finished furniture into customization has become the general trend, requiring enterprises to have outstanding management capabilities in R&D, supply chain, delivery, terminal operations, and other areas.
Soonfor Academy Private Board Meetings gather industry experts, solution experts, implementation experts, and the collective wisdom of home furnishing entrepreneurs. Everyone communicates and learns together, and Soonfor experts answer questions and resolve confusion, solving complex and practical problems in enterprise operation and management. Together, they promote management upgrades in the home furnishing industry. 
