Microsoft Dynamics AX for furniture

The Furniture industry faces many business challenges from the complexities of bill of material handling and routing to the need for easier product configuration for customers and sales representatives. Sunrise Technologies is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with expertise and knowledge in your industry. Our experience allows us to provide a Microsoft Dynamics AX solution that will take your business to the next level.

 

Furniture Industry Business Challenges

Product Configuration

Microsoft Dynamics AX Product Builder enables customers to configure their own products. Do you give your customers a way to easily pick custom options for your products, without needing to involve sales staff?
Microsoft Dynamics AX enables the sales and customer service reps to configure "on the fly" orders. How efficiently is your sales staff submitting orders? Does your item master and sales order entry process allow you to enter orders for different configurations of the same item?

Sourcing from overseas: Container assembly and tracking

Microsoft Dynamics AX allows complex staging and tracking of all shipments. The system assigns containers as "on the water", tracks the container, and then breaks it down when it arrives in the US. This is followed by put away in the warehouse and distribution to the customer. How does your ERP system handle the complex staging of shipments?

Item master flexibility

Microsoft Dynamics AX allows you to associate item dimensions such as size and color to a core SKU number. This simplifies data setup and maintenance by reducing the number of SKUs stored in the main item master. You can filter out the item dimensions to work with inventory at the top level, or you can choose to work at the detail level that includes the item dimensions. This provides an efficient setup for key data inquiry and reporting across the various item dimensions. Does your company struggle with setting up reports or inquiries that separate or breakdown the end item structure into various flexible views?

Product Families

Microsoft Dynamics AX gives you the ability to segregate the data, particularly sales order information, by family class to allow for critical inquiry and reporting. This allows for customer service branding of products based on product families. Does your system give you the flexibility to suggest family items to your customers?

Product sets

Microsoft Dynamics AX allows the user the flexibility to control "product sets", where a group of products is allowed to be ordered together, manufactured together and shipped to the customer together. Microsoft Dynamics AX allows control over selling sets of this nature, and has the flexibility to change the set and ship individual items if all items are not available at the same time. Does your system allow control over selling sets of this nature and the flexibility to change the set and ship individual items if all are not available at the same time?

BOM and Routings

Microsoft Dynamics AX allows you flexibility when managing inventory and purchasing. Microsoft Dynamics AX simplifies the creation and tracking of bills of materials using a flexible BOM designer. Can you quickly and easily find previously-used BOMs, and transform them into new ones?

Web Interaction

Microsoft Dynamics AX Enterprise portal allows customers, vendors, business partners and employees of a company direct access to relevant business information and conduct business transactions through a user-friendly Web portal over the internet. Can your customers and vendors access your business 24 hours a day? How much faster could you do business, while saving money, if you could offer this service to customers and vendors?