At present, the domestic and international situation is severe and complex. A new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is extensive and far-reaching, economic globalization is encountering headwinds, and instability and uncertainty are increasing significantly. Furniture enterprises are facing new situations and new problems in development. Deepening supply-side structural reform and accelerating quality improvement, efficiency enhancement, transformation, and upgrading have become major historical tasks and strategic choices for the furniture industry. On July 29, 2021, the Shandong Furniture Association successfully held the 6th Home Furnishing Industry Supply-Side Innovation and Development Summit at Wanda Realm Taian Hotel under the theme of "Innovation Drives Change, Intelligence Leads the Future." This summit brought together international trade experts, intelligent manufacturing experts, and outstanding enterprises and management experts from upstream equipment and material suppliers in technologically advanced, environmentally friendly, and forward-looking fields such as coatings, machining centers, and furniture hardware. The event explored how furniture enterprises can reduce costs, improve efficiency, and enhance quality through new materials, new technologies, new processes, new equipment, and new models, thereby promoting the high-quality development of the furniture industry. Guangdong Soonfor Software Co., Ltd., as a well-known developer and service provider of informatized management software for the home furnishing industry, was also invited to attend the summit. At the summit, Lai Yuxiang, Senior Consultant of Soonfor Software, gave a detailed explanation of the overall management situation of finished furniture and custom furniture enterprises at present, as well as the future development trend of furniture enterprise informatization, from four aspects: the differences between finished products and customization, the full process of customization, misunderstandings about informatization, and a summary of informatization planning. In the information age, any enterprise that wants to keep pace with the times and achieve long-term development cannot do without informatized management. Enterprise informatization must possess foresight, an overall perspective, scalability, and depth.

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