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Published on: 2019-06-06

What are the common problems in furniture production management? How can they be solved?China is the world's furniture manufacturing center and a major furniture-producing country. Competition has become extremely intense, furniture manufacturers' profits have been greatly reduced, yet huge waste of time and money continues. This creates a series of management problems. So what are the common problems in furniture production management, and how can they be solved?

Furniture Production Management

What are the common problems in furniture production management:

1. Long delivery times or untimely delivery
The length of the delivery period reflects the production efficiency of a furniture manufacturer, while whether delivery is timely reflects its production management level. The main factors affecting delivery time include equipment utilization, production scheduling, warehouse management, production process control, production management mode, and workers' skill level. Due to space limitations, this article briefly analyzes the first three factors.
2. Warehouse management

Warehouse management includes raw material warehouses, work-in-process warehouses, and finished goods warehouses. In furniture manufacturing enterprises, untimely delivery caused by raw material supply may occur in two situations. First, raw material shortages lead to delayed delivery or make delivery time uncertain. Second, the supply lead time for raw materials is long, such as for customized components. An effective way to solve raw material supply issues and inventory backlogs is to adopt a safety stock model.

3. Excess idle materials and offcuts
Managers of furniture enterprises always try to reduce idle materials or offcuts generated in problematic furniture production. Some managers, in order to reduce material waste, store temporarily unused large-size offcuts for reuse in future batching. In fact, only a small portion of idle materials can be reused, while most are piled up for years and eventually discarded, because batching workers find it difficult to locate materials with matching dimensions, the same material quality, and the same pattern from piles of idle stock. There are two solutions. First, using group technology for nesting can reduce the amount of idle stock, improve material yield, and increase profit. Second, using information-based management for idle stock can also greatly improve its utilization rate.
An unusually large amount of offcuts indicates serious waste in the enterprise, because offcuts are leftovers remaining after multiple processing steps. The more leftovers there are, the more labor, materials, and financial resources are wasted on offcuts. It is a waste of both time and money.
4. Product price reductions and worker hours
Product price reductions damage enterprise profits. Using longer working hours for employees to compensate for insufficient profits is undoubtedly a short-sighted measure, because aside from market competition, product price reductions should be based on improving productivity or reducing costs, not on compensating by extending workers' labor time to create surplus value. On the surface, extending working hours seems to give enterprises more time to earn money. However, as everyone knows, human energy is limited. The labor efficiency of fatigued workers will certainly decline, production accidents will be far more frequent than under normal production conditions, the qualification rate of processed parts will also fall, and machine idle running rates will be noticeably higher than in normal production. This is truly a vicious cycle. Therefore, extending workers' production time may seem profitable on the surface but actually causes hidden losses, resulting in real losses of both money and time.
5. Poor information flow between departments
Poor information flow refers to blocked information transmission and loss of information content. For example, within a production workshop, the next process may not know the completion status of the previous process, resulting in waiting for work or taking the wrong materials. When the design department and the production site do not communicate smoothly, design information cannot be effectively implemented on the shop floor, resulting in production that does not follow design drawings or design department instructions and causing processing errors and production accidents.
6. Production is busy, but profits are unclear

For furniture manufacturing enterprises, the purpose of production is profit. If there is no profit, production should not be carried out. At present, a considerable number of furniture enterprises begin production without knowing how much profit they will make or whether they are truly profitable. This is both an abnormal and, in practice, common phenomenon.

Furniture Production Management

How to solve furniture production management problems:

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Why choose Soonfor?
1. Focus and professionalism
Soonfor Software was established in 1995 and has focused on the development and promotion of home furnishing industry management software for nearly 20 years, providing comprehensive and mature solutions for the management informatization of furniture enterprises.
2. Tailor-made solutions
According to the different conditions of each enterprise, Soonfor conducts on-site investigation and research to formulate personalized solutions, helping enterprises save costs and improve work efficiency.
3. Expert implementation team
An excellent team of implementation consultants with more than twenty years of rich management experience in the furniture and home furnishing industry ensures barrier-free implementation, helping your enterprise upgrade management and build an intelligent management enterprise.
4. 2000+ successful cases
Soonfor serves more than 2,000 medium-sized and large home furnishing enterprises across the country, covering 12 furniture sub-sectors and possessing extensive accumulated customer practice.

Furniture Production Management

Nowadays, many managers of furniture manufacturing enterprises always believe their own enterprises are excellent, but no one is perfect, and even the best enterprises have shortcomings. The shortcomings of furniture manufacturers are generally reflected in various production phenomena. In fact, many furniture enterprises still have problems in many aspects of management, so they need professional furniture management software to help solve these problems.

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