Against the backdrop of rapidly changing market conditions and increasingly fierce competition, traditional furniture enterprises are facing enormous challenges. Recently, Yulan Furniture launched a Soonfor digitalization project aimed at advancing business process reengineering and system upgrading, striving to realize integrated business and finance operations and foundational data governance, while enhancing operating efficiency and core competitiveness. This is not only a technological innovation, but also a transformation of the operating model.

Expected benefits

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Integrated business-finance collaboration: Build an integrated business-finance platform for Yulan Furniture, ensure precise correspondence between business documents and the general ledger, and seamlessly connect data across systems to eliminate information barriers.

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Intelligent sales control: Realize automatic control of customer deposits for Yulan Furniture and support special approval workflows; present delivery dates, inventory, and other data in real time with abnormality alerts, and automatically generate order-taking and shipment reports.

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Lean supply chain management: Use automatic MRP calculation, control purchase prices by supplier, count material shortages in real time, realize automatic material picking, and standardize outsourced processing workflows.

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Dynamic production monitoring: Track production progress in real time, automatically issue abnormality alerts, calculate material shortages based on delivery schedules, and automatically deduct inventory data after materials are issued.

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Standardized R and D construction: Unify coding and naming rules for products and materials, improve the classification system, and standardize sample-making workflows as well as BOM and BOR operating standards.

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Digital financial upgrading: Optimize accounts receivable and accounts payable reconciliation processes, have the system automatically compile financial data, complete cost accounting, and realize integration of reporting systems across modules.

About Yulan Furniture

Foshan Yulan Furniture Co., Ltd., founded in 2014, has focused for many years on research and development in the sleep segment and the application of sleep solutions, building a complete industrial system integrating research and development, production, and sales. Its main products include mattresses, upholstered beds, pillows, and fitted sheets.

End-to-end industrial layout: The company has multiple professional teams covering manufacturing, design and marketing, and e-commerce operations. Relying on professional design and exquisite craftsmanship, it has created multiple well-known mattress brands. Its products not only cover the domestic market, but are also exported to more than 100 countries and regions across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Oceania, and Africa, realizing a global market layout.

Innovation-driven development: The company has established an independent R and D and design team focused on sleep product development and solution innovation, continuously launching new products that align with market demand and personalized preferences, and consolidating brand competitiveness through technical strength.

Diversified sales channels: Its domestic e-commerce department and cross-border e-commerce department work together, opening official stores on major domestic platforms such as Tmall, Taobao, Douyin, and JD.com, as well as cross-border platforms such as Alibaba International. Through an integrated online and offline sales model, it comprehensively broadens sales channels and enhances the brand's global influence.

Facing challenges directly

Multiple operational difficulties under the traditional model

As industry competition intensifies and the market environment changes, the next three years will enter a stage of fierce competition in the existing market.

During its development, Yulan Furniture gradually exposed many management problems that urgently need to be solved. For example, there are significant bottlenecks in internal data circulation and collaboration mechanisms, serious data silos between departments, ineffective information sharing and interaction, and a lack of unified standards and norms for interdepartmental cooperation, all of which lead to low cross-department collaboration efficiency. In addition, uneven data quality and an incomplete foundational data architecture have further aggravated business friction and seriously constrained the improvement of overall operating efficiency.

These issues are intertwined. They not only constrain improvement in customer satisfaction, but also hinder the enterprise's market competitiveness and sustainable development, making systematic solutions urgently necessary. After careful consideration and investigation, Yulan Furniture ultimately chose to cooperate with Soonfor Software, a leading enterprise in home furnishing digitalization, on this digitalization project.

Regarding the introduction of the digitalization project, Mr. Liao of Yulan Furniture, standing from the perspective of overall corporate strategy, systematically explained the important background and far-reaching significance of the project's implementation, from top-level planning to organizational restructuring. He emphasized, "The successful implementation of ERP is by no means the solo effort of a single department. It requires all employees to unite, work together, and advance collaboratively, using a high degree of strategic consensus and execution capability to promote the optimization and upgrading of enterprise management processes, ultimately achieving the core goal of reducing costs and improving efficiency, and injecting strong momentum into high-quality enterprise development."

System layout

Creating a new engine for integrated business and finance

According to industry reports, enterprises with mature digital transformation have average profit margins 15% to 20% higher than traditional enterprises. This data fully demonstrates the significant advantages of digital transformation in improving enterprise competitiveness and profitability.

Yulan Furniture has joined hands with Soonfor Software to launch its digital upgrading project. Centered on the core objective of integrated business-finance collaboration, it will build an integrated information platform. Through the synchronized advancement of five major modules, namely intelligent sales control, lean supply chain management, dynamic production monitoring, standardized R and D construction, and digital financial upgrading, it will realize full-process closed-loop management from the business front end to the financial back end. Whether it is precise control of order delivery cycles or automated cost accounting, this will bring the enterprise an unprecedented leap in efficiency.

Mr. Ma from Soonfor said, "Against the backdrop of the global wave of the digital economy, if enterprises want to build a core competitiveness for sustainable development, digital management has become the only path to breaking through. This requires enterprises to uphold the strategic concept of system first and data empowerment. By building a digital management platform, deeply integrating business processes and data resources, and realizing process standardization, standardized financial management, business digital transformation, and efficient collaboration between systems, enterprises can move forward effectively. At the same time, only by always placing user needs at the core and using digital technology as support to create an operating system featuring high-quality products, rapid response delivery, and refined cost control can enterprises seize the initiative in fierce market competition and lay a solid foundation for long-term development."

Project consultants Mr. Xiao and Mr. Zheng of Yulan Furniture analyzed in depth the strategic significance of digital management from two key dimensions, human resources and financial management, respectively. The two consultants pointed out that by relying on advanced digital management systems, enterprises can not only optimize human resource allocation and improve the precision of financial control, but can also transform management effectiveness into quantifiable value outcomes through deep mining and analysis of data.

Soonfor consultant Yuan Yuxuan explained the project implementation control method and introduced the overall project plan, ensuring that the project can advance efficiently and in an orderly manner.

Leading the future with intelligence

Seizing a new commanding height in industry competition

At a time when the competitive landscape of the industry is being rapidly reshaped, leading enterprises have already built first-mover barriers through digital transformation. Cross-industry competitors such as Internet e-commerce players, relying on innovative digital business models, flexible operating strategies, and efficient service systems, are rapidly seizing the market and exerting a strong impact on traditional enterprises.

In the face of this disruptive challenge, traditional enterprises can seek survival and development in fierce market competition only by accelerating technological integration and business model transformation. This transformation of Yulan Furniture is not only a breakthrough from its own bottlenecks, but also a strategic layout aimed at the future market landscape.

Taking this project as an opportunity, Yulan Furniture will fully move toward intelligent, data-driven, and platform-based operations, standing out in fierce market competition with stronger customer response capabilities and higher product delivery quality, and entering a new stage of high-quality development.
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