WillMore: Production and distribution for the furniture companies based on Microsoft Dynamics NAV

The industry solution for the furniture companies developed by consulting company WillMore based on Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 gives ample opportunities for production planning and purchase management, warehouses, sale, finance, etc.

Advantages of the solution for the furniture companies:

• Operational order processing;
• Optimization of a logistics chain;
• Flexibility and dynamism of production;
• Direct link of a production process with individual orders.

Distinctive features:

The solution considers specifics of business processes of manufacturing companies of furniture:

• Advanced functionality of the module "Sets":
  • Possibility of cutting of homogeneous material;
  • Calculation of actual cost transaction of assembly of a set;
  • Calculation of actual cost transaction of dismantling of a set;
  • Transfer number SCD on a set from component parts.

• Advanced functionality of the module "Production":
  • Dominance of transaction of assembly in production process;
  • An opportunity to make a part of component parts or even some goods independently;
  • Possibility of use of logical warehouses;
  • Visualization of presence of all a component on all possible warehouses. A possibility of selection a component from different warehouses for consumption;
  • Complete processing of the production orders (consumption and an exit) selected in the list by means of two clicks.

• Maintaining packaging specification of goods
• Expanded reporting. Each commodity document is followed by reports Packing list and Stickers.

Solution components:

Database maintenance

One of the main problems of the furniture companies is database maintenance on goods. Practically each goods represent a set, and emergence in assortment of new goods leads to creation of a large number of commodity cards. In the solution the mechanism of formation of cards of goods taking into account increased requirements to convenience was implemented that allows to optimize and structure the database. In a system display of full name of goods (up to 250 characters) is provided in the main magazines and documents.

Sales management

The solution for the furniture companies considerably simplifies work of sales department on tracking of orders and control of payments. The most part of purchases is executed under the order of sale. In a system on-line warning at discrepancy of delivery dates on a warehouse and shipments from warehouse is implemented. Besides, in the solution differentiation of access rights at the level of fields of the statuses of documents is implemented. It is connected with the fact that the same documents of sale process different divisions (managers of sales, department of delivery, a warehouse, accounting).

In the solution developed by WillMore different commodity groups of discounts for purchases are configured. In the course of the long relations with the supplier the mechanism of discounts for the purchased goods is developed. The solution allows to consider possible discounts at a preliminary estimate of an order amount. The same principle is implemented also for a design of sales.

In the solution for the furniture companies process of delivery of import goods to a warehouse of the company with control of terms of passing by a load of certain points is reflected. Moreover, in the solution the possibility of distribution of customs and transportation costs to delivery is implemented.

Expanded analysis

By production and difficult logistics chains in case of transactions with small marginal income it is very important to understand that transaction still remains profitable. Any, even insignificant, fluctuations in structure of cost value can lead to a negative financial result. The solution allows not only to use the system of "red flags", but also and means of the analysis and analysis in case of critical situation.

Management of a warehouse

Specifics of the furniture company is the fact that the warehouse works not with goods, and with packagings. Moreover, packagings of one goods item can be located in different storage areas, and packagings may contain other packagings. The solution for the furniture companies allows to consider this fact.

In Microsoft Dynamics NAV the cost value correction module which allows to transfer cost value from a set to components in defects processing when it is necessary to execute assembly transactions – dismantling of a set was developed. Besides, for assembly transactions – dismantling transfer numbers SCD from a set to components and vice versa is implemented.

All warehouse units of storage are pasted over with own labels (stickers). Stickers can be printed from any commodity document. Pasting by labels is made, as a rule, at goods receipt from the supplier. But it can be executed at any time at packaging damage, for example, at return of goods from an exhibition.

For convenience of work with document flow the screen form for display of documents of the different types requiring processing of delivery by department was implemented. The department of delivery processes documents of different types: sales, purchases, return, internal transfers.

Rather expensive beams, racks which size is defined individually, according to project requirements for the specific end user are included in some commodity packages. Beams are delivered by the standard sizes. There is a problem of accounting of beams of different length and also accounting of the procedure of a cut of beams on fragments of different length. Each beam is presented in the solution for the furniture companies as the set consisting of fragments of basic length, and the cut of beams is implemented in the form of a superstructure over the magazine of sets.

Some part of the furniture cloths arriving on a production warehouse have defects. Depending on arrangement of the rejected sections such cloths still can be used for production of separate types of products. Similar materials are stored in special warehouses. With respect thereto selection of materials for consumption needs to be executed from several warehouses and to see all information at once on several warehouses. For this purpose the interface of selection of materials at the same time on several warehouses was developed. It allows to optimize considerably warehouse costs and to increase the level of profitability of the company.

Production of the furniture companies is characterized by existence of small orders for production which need to be planned and credited. The solution allows to group orders and using two clicks to start the production order.

Industrial process control

For optimization of warehouse costs and increase in level of customer satisfaction the most important link in the course of a company performance is production management: planning, forecasting and accounting. The solution allows to implement the principle of lean production when its planning is based on the basis of the processed orders taking into account a forecasting factor.