Furniture and Interior Design Companies

Plaza-i is a versatile ERP that integrates quotation, sales orders, purchase orders, inventory, receivables, payables, and general accounting; however, it also provides the following standard functions necessary in the furniture business: logistics functionality to meet tight delivery schedules for large-sized products, procurement from associate factories including imports, multiple sales channels such as brick-and-mortar stores, e-commerce, and wholesale, semi-custom orders with customizable color and fabric, individual management of second-hand products, history management for issuing warranties, and quality control at shipping.

Except for small items, you need to deliver furniture on a date agreed with customer. 

Plaza-i is embedded with standard features that support sales, procurement, and logistics models, including shipping from the distribution center, order picking, determining delivery dates for procured products, performing distribution arrangement, and locking delivery dates, which are highly valued by furniture and interior design companies who strive to ensure timely deliveries.

Since furniture is heavy, bulky, and requires space to set up, it is critical to use a system with superior logistics functionality. 

Plaza-i provides furniture and interior companies with useful logistics features as standard, supporting distribution arrangement based on stock-in/out vouchers, specification of a transportation type at the time of sales order, automatic calculation of piece and logistics units, reservation of car allocation, memo for logistics instructions, and printing address label stickers.

Furniture and interior companies sell small goods and common parts from inventory while they import large furniture, outsource production to associate factories, and order a set of furniture and accessories at each occasion. Various procurement methods need to be supported.

Plaza-i deploys an appropriate procurement method depending on items and automatically allocates inventory or creates a purchase/special/import order, and then processes parts supply instructions based on purpose-oriented inventory management using Plaza-i's unique Facility feature and the multi-level BoM deployment feature. It can cater to various user needs while keeping efficient operations.

Furniture, interior, and home goods businesses need all sorts of sales channels, like physical stores, retailers, wholesalers, housing business, e-commerce, and more.

In Plaza-i, by inputting the formation on advances received and individual customers at the time of sales order entries, you can handle end user sales. Furthermore, you can also handle operations as a wholesaler such as sales order data acceptance via electronic data interchange (EDI), accounts receivable billing, and credit management just like typical sales order systems. The beauty of Plaza-i is that it has many standard features to support engaging in both B2C and B2B which is very common in the industry.

In furniture business, customizable color and fabric options are often available at the time of placing a production order. Especially for fabric, it is necessary to efficiently attend to user's needs, such as fabric ordered individually, withdrawn from inventory, and Bring Your Own Fabric. 

Plaza-i provides features that let you specify colors and fabrics, check for compatible fabrics, automatically deploy lengths, deploy procurement instructions for fabrics, automatically create semi-custom orders to an associate factory, specify Bring Your Own Fabric and more, which help in efficiently meeting user needs in the industry.