Where digital tracking in furniture manufacturing begins
The first step from spreadsheets to ERP is bringing material and order tracking into one place.
In most workshops records live in three places: orders in a notebook, materials with the storekeeper, and prices in the owner's head. Digitisation starts by moving all three into a single database.
Where to start
First the material catalogue is put in order: every board, edge band and fitting gets a code and a unit of measure. Only then does order cost become a real number.
- Catalogue and units of measure
- Orders and their stages
- Material consumption and stock