Today's furniture manufacturers face a multitude of new business complexities. Product demands span a broad spectrum -- from commoditized to highly customized products. Customer demands are always changing while competition from lower-cost markets is increasing. Creating brand differentiation is more dependent than ever on customer service, sales and supply chain agility to reduce order-to-shipment times. Market leadership and growth is more dependent than ever on understanding customer needs and providing the products and services to meet them when requested.

The pressure of responding to these new challenges is accompanied by the age-old pressure of maintaining margins and profitability. Vital to success in this environment is the ability of your business to control costs and optimize processes. As a result, many furniture companies are focusing on improving supply chain management -- on streamlining operations and optimizing their ability to adapt to a changing business environment.

Obstacles you face! All too often, supply chain improvement efforts are stalled by a fragmented and disparate IT landscape -- loosely connected solutions, including legacy systems, manufacturing execution systems, and an assortment of custom applications. Not only does this mean high IT integration costs, but more importantly, it means impaired visibility into the very supply chain processes you need to improve.

Katalyst_Furniture offers a comprehensive solution tailored to the requirements of furniture companies. Katalyst_Furniture is a ready-to-run system! We will eliminate the cost of integrating inefficient legacy systems and provide executives, business managers, technology managers and end-users the business tools to achieve business agility, execution excellence and long-term success.