Research And Application Of Make-to-order Manufacturing In Plate Furniture Enterprises Based On SAP System

With the internationalization panel furniture market developing and the customer demands diversified, the traditional mass production mode is converting into varieties, medium and small batch production mode in the furniture manufacture.That product should be design, manufacture, assembly and delivery according to customer’s demands.Because product categories are based on customized development trend, the current business logic has been beyond the scope of traditional ERP logic.Therefore, developing a suitable ERP system for the current customized business become the most urgent the problem, which can timely and effectively meet customers personalized needs.In this background, The paper explain basic function of make-to-order module and how to create sales order BOM in the SAP system.The paper firstly makes a complete planning for the panel custom furniture enterprise’s data, secondly analyses the related technology of make-to-order module, introduces mainstream ERP products’ solution of make-to-order function.And clean up the business process of make-to-order module in the SAP system.Finally, using an actual panel custom furniture product to show the process of accomplishing the make-to-order module and lay out a blueprint of IT planning in the panel custom furniture enterprises.The paper research the module of make-to-order in SAP system, which can fully support the business of personalized customization;This module is not only to meet customer’s need for product diversification, but also to transfer the product configuration from sales department to the manufacturing department, to accelerate the speed of respond to customer needs and business data’s transfer.In this way, enterprise can reduce the communication costs among manufacturing department, sales department and research & development department, and improve the company’s operational efficiency.