Wooden & Metal Furniture
Connect Design, Materials, Production, Dispatch and Installation.
An ERP for wooden and metal furniture manufacturers that links the approved design to its bill of materials, its job cards, its subcontractors and its installation at site.
21 modules across 3 functional areas, scoped to what your operation actually needs.
Context
Why furniture businesses need this built properly.
Furniture manufacturing is estimation-heavy. Every institutional order, every custom wardrobe and every tender line item needs a materials list and a cost before it can be quoted — and that estimate is only as good as the bill of materials behind it.
Beyond Papers builds furniture ERP systems that hold the product catalogue, the configurable options, the bill of materials and the production routing together, so estimation, purchase, production and installation all draw on the same definition of the product.
What We Hear
The problems that bring businesses like yours to us.
These come up in almost every discovery conversation in this sector. If several of them are familiar, the system below is designed to address them directly.
Estimates built from scratch every time
Costing depends on one experienced person rebuilding a materials list in Excel for each enquiry.
Design approvals lost in email
Drawing revisions circulate by mail and WhatsApp, and production occasionally starts on a superseded version.
Material shortages found mid-production
Laminates, hardware and sections are discovered missing after cutting has already begun.
Work-in-progress invisible
Nobody can say how many units are at cutting, assembly, finishing or packing without asking each supervisor.
Subcontractor accounts disputed
Material issued to job workers and units received back are tracked informally, so reconciliation becomes an argument.
Installation and warranty untracked
Site fitting, snag lists and warranty claims live outside the system entirely.
End to End
One record, from first contact to final settlement.
Each stage hands its information to the next inside the system. Nothing is re-entered, and at any point the current position can be answered without walking the floor.
- 1
Enquiry
Institutional, tender, dealer or retail requirement
- 2
Configuration
Sizes, finishes, hardware and options selected
- 3
BOM & Estimate
Materials and cost derived from the configuration
- 4
Design Approval
Drawing revision approved before release
- 5
Production
Job cards, cutting, assembly and finishing tracked
- 6
Quality & Packing
Inspected, packed and readied for dispatch
- 7
Installation
Fitted at site with snag list and handover
Modules
What a Furniture Manufacturing ERP covers.
Scope is confirmed after discovery. You are never asked to take modules that have nothing to do with how your business operates.
Group 01
Design, Estimation & Planning
- Product catalogue
- Custom product configuration
- Bill of Materials
- Design approval
- Estimation and costing
- Raw material planning
- Tender and institutional order tracking
Group 02
Production & Shop Floor
- Wood, laminate, hardware and metal inventory
- Cutting and nesting
- Production routing
- Work-in-progress tracking
- Job cards
- Machine allocation
- Labour allocation
- Subcontractor management
Group 03
Delivery & After-Sales
- Quality inspection
- Packing
- Dispatch
- Site installation
- Project management
- Warranty and service
What Changes
The operational differences you should expect.
Stated as changes in how the business runs, not as percentages. We do not publish improvement figures we cannot substantiate from a named project.
- Estimates generated from a maintained bill of materials rather than memory
- Only the approved drawing revision released to production
- Material shortages identified during planning, not during cutting
- Work-in-progress visible by stage, job card and machine
- Subcontractor issue and receipt reconciled on a running account
- Installation, snags and warranty recorded against the original order
Field application
Today’s follow-ups
12
Due today
4
Overdue
Approval requested
Discount above limit on order SO-24118.
Field and supervisor applications keep the system current where the work actually happens. Illustrative interface.
Questions
Furniture Manufacturing ERP — what businesses ask first.
Still deciding whether this is the right route?
A discovery conversation costs nothing and carries no obligation. We will tell you plainly if a package would serve you better.
Book a consultationYes. Both are supported in the same system with their own bills of materials, routing and inventory categories — board, laminate, edge banding and hardware for wooden lines, and sections, sheets, fasteners and finishing for metal lines.
Yes. A configurable catalogue lets the sales team select sizes, finishes, hardware and options, and the bill of materials and estimated cost are derived from that selection so quotations stay consistent with production reality.
Yes. Subcontractor management maintains a running account of material issued, units received back, rejections and rate-based payables for each job worker.
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Next Step
Ready to see this mapped against your own operation?
Book a discovery consultation. We will walk your process end to end and set out honestly which parts are worth systemising first.