Today, as the wave of digitalization sweeps across the globe, the home furnishing industry is undergoing a profound management transformation.

As Central South University of Forestry and Technology, known as the Whampoa Military Academy of the home furnishing industry, continues to stand at the forefront of industry-education integration and collaborative talent cultivation, the annual compulsory course on furniture ERP digitalization jointly created by Soonfor Software and the university concluded successfully in December 2025, as the two sides entered the tenth year of their cooperation. Once again, it highlighted the key role of deep school-enterprise collaboration in cultivating digital talent for the new era of the home furnishing industry.

PART 01 Solid Foundations

From the Classroom to the System, Building Practice-Oriented Talent

This year's course continued the dual-drive teaching model of theory plus hands-on practice. It was taught by Mr. Chen Zongping, a senior lecturer from Soonfor Software, and systematically explained the full-process application of furniture ERP systems to graduating students of the School of Furniture and Art Design. The course covered core modules such as R&D modeling, BOM construction, process route configuration, production planning and scheduling, warehousing and logistics coordination, and financial integration, helping students build a complete understanding of the integrated operating logic of home furnishing enterprises across R&D, production, supply, sales, and service.

Through hands-on computer exercises and case simulations, students not only mastered ERP system operation skills, but also gained a deeper understanding of how digital tools can solve pain points in traditional home furnishing enterprise management, such as information silos, delayed response, and cost overruns. They truly came to understand that ERP is not just back-end software, but the nerve center of efficient enterprise operations.

PART 02 Collaborative Cultivation

From Education to Employment, Connecting the Full Talent Development Chain

The cooperation between Soonfor Software and Central South University of Forestry and Technology has long gone beyond a single course and gradually developed into a three-dimensional talent cultivation ecosystem covering teaching, internships, and employment matching.

This training path of real problems, real scenarios, and real practice not only helps students complete their degree theses with high quality, but also promotes the transformation of scientific research achievements into industrial value.

In the future, both sides also plan to explore joint applications for national scientific research projects and the development of industry standards, truly realizing the integration of the education chain, talent chain, industrial chain, and innovation chain.

PART 03 Leading the Future

From Talent to Ecosystem, Driving the Home Furnishing Industry's Digital and Intelligent Leap

Every year, Central South University of Forestry and Technology supplies the home furnishing industry with hundreds of high-quality talents who possess solid professional knowledge and digital thinking, and it has become a widely recognized cradle of talent in the industry. Soonfor Software, as a leading digitalization enterprise deeply rooted in the pan-home furnishing sector for more than 20 years, serves more than 3,000 medium and large enterprises and deeply understands the urgent needs of industry transformation and upgrading.

Ten years of school-enterprise partnership is not only the transfer of knowledge, but also a shared mission. In 2025, with the help of the course platform, Soonfor successfully facilitated targeted recruitment by a number of leading home furnishing enterprises on campus, achieving efficient matching between what students learn and the positions enterprises need. More importantly, this cooperation model is becoming a model for supply-side reform in home furnishing industry digital talent, using education as the lead, talent as the foundation, and technology as the enabler to ultimately drive the entire industry toward a new stage of high quality, intelligence, and sustainability.

The annual gathering at Central South Forestry is not only the end of a course, but also the starting point of a new round of industry-education integration. Looking back at the end of 2025, the cooperation between Soonfor Software and Central South University of Forestry and Technology has grown from jointly building one course to jointly cultivating a generation and shaping an industry. In the future, both sides will continue to use digitalization as the pen and talent as the ink to write a new chapter in China's intelligent home furnishing manufacturing.