In a world where beautiful furniture hits our high streets each day, spare a thought for the fast moving and highly complex environment in which the said items have been manufactured. Bespoke items carrying thousands of variations and options where there is no room for delay, the furniture industry has to be one of the most difficult in which to work.
This is the world that surrounds you… yet day after day, thousands upon thousands of beautiful pieces of furniture are delivered without fail into high street stores ready for collection or onward delivery. That is a huge challenge, especially since your IT systems and business processes may be tired and creaking.
In creating Dynamics AX, Microsoft have insured inbuilt flexibility and diversity such that AX flexes as you flex, deviates as your needs must whilst all the time maintaining control and letting your production flow. Not only does it create the perfect order, but also assimilates accurate details to the shop floor so that perfect pieces of furniture leave your doors 1st time without delay or rework.
Within Microsoft Dynamics AX lies a wide set of fully integrated enterprise Product Configuration tools. Their purpose is to simplify the customers ordering experience and provide a truly professional environment in which to capture orders rapidly and with accuracy.
You may be faced with a daunting problem. Items you sell can be configured in many thousands of variations – size, colour, fabric, frame, material for example - and you receive hundreds of orders each day. Having the time to even identify sales order errors could be impossible, let alone fixing the mistake. Getting the order right first time is a challenge in itself and is the prime reason for rejected deliveries, rework and lost profit.
Sales orders should be taken quickly and efficiently creating real-time pricing and quoting options with recommendations. The ability to tell your customer, based on the known constraints and the availability of stock - almost to the day - when their order will be ready is a valuable asset.
Microsoft Dynamics AX Product Configurator provides the means with which to control endless numbers and product configurations in a highly sophisticated and controlled manner. This takes away any misconception as to what has been ordered. More importantly, your customers have everything they need to make a quick buying decision, and as a result, you keep those all important customer satisfaction levels high.
The simple truth is that using an architecture designed to be totally configurable, constraints based and flexible to your needs is vital to remain sominant in the market. This version of Microsoft Dynamics AX is designed by your industry for your industry answering questions and offering solutions to common industry problems. You define what you make, you define what is bespoke and what is not, and you define what variances you wish to offer your furniture in without a flicker of concern from Dynamics AX. Many Leading Furniture Manufacturers have embraced these challenges and NOW, so can you.
Whether you pass production demand to the Far East or retain in house, the Microsoft AX Product configurator has redefined information sources to accommodate a mind field of inputs, actions and product builds. It has simplified the selection process where you define the QUESTIONS and the ANSWERS letting Product Configurator do the rest.
You are not limited by complexity or dimensions for your configurations and can create multiple rules for one question.
Ensuring that products conform to the order is vital. Automatically creating the works orders in a sequence that aligns with delivery schedules is useful and carries equal importance. Manufacturing furniture based upon delivery schedules not only cuts transportation, complexity and cost, but also minimises the chance of finished items sitting around awaiting delivery. It ensures everything finished item goes straight out of the door to its new owner.
The Microsoft Dynamics AX Product Configurator from Syscom enables you to make and sell the right product at the right time with no mistakes and no returns. For manufacturers & distributors of seemingly complex products with many variances. There is no need to manage multiple product codes on spreadsheets any more as the Product Configurator automatically does the work for you.
Trust the Microsoft Dynamics AX Product Configurator to:
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Simplify complexity
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Cut costs, streamline & automate business processes
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Improve customer service and inventory levels
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Produce orders accurately and efficiently
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Generate growth and stability for the future of your company
Product Configurator not only redefines how input information is used but revolutionised how Bills of Materials can be created on the fly not static as other systems would constrain you to and automates routing instructions to build these beautiful items. BOMS can be defined in multi-level format, with no limit to the number of levels.
Microsoft Dynamics AX, along with its exciting NEW Furniture Plug-in is now available to all furniture companies no matter how large or small and hosted in the CLOUD.