We deliver the perfect solutions to digitally transform the furniture industry’s supply chain — and we have the proof to back it up.

Focus on efficiency in a dynamic environment where synchronization is critical.

The furniture industry is highly dynamic, with demand that is sensitive and characterized by a vast variety of products, strong seasonality, and increasingly shorter product life cycles. Production is also delicate, involving numerous processes and long setup times — where any lack of synchronization can lead to massive levels of work-in-progress inventory. On top of that, quality issues often cause small batches to appear unexpectedly, disrupting the flow and impacting productivity.

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Neo supports the entire planning process of your supply chain — from long- to short-term — addressing key industry characteristics such as inventory balancing by product type, gradient-based color sequencing in painting, minimization of drilling operations, and integration of sequencing with cutting plans.

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Meet Opcenter APS

World-leading APS software, developed to use advanced heuristics to balance demand and capacity and achieve optimized Production Planning and Sequencing. It's with this software that we decide the best order to produce most efficiently.

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Meet NPLAN

NPLAN is an innovative advanced planning platform for productive scenarios developed by Neo, which emerged with the mission of revolutionizing the digital acceleration of the supply chain. Generate your production planning scenarios agile, reliable and collaboratively.

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Meet Evocon

Simple and agile, scan your factory data and optimize your equipment performance to the fullest. Evocon is a combination of IoT and plug-in-play software to help understand your factory's behavior easily and intuitively.

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Meet Ax4

AX4, developed by Siemens Digital Logistics, is a logistics management platform that simplifies and optimizes supply chain operations—enabling companies to manage transportation, supplier deliveries, dock scheduling, and freight payments through a single collaborative solution.

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The key challenges for the textile industry:

Products and components

The large number of parts per product and the high variety of finished products make production complex and prone to productivity loss.

Synchronization between operations

Different components of the same finished product need to be completed in sync up until the packaging process.

Long set up and wait times

Continuously alternating the production of components with different attributes, such as paint colors, is highly costly due to the setup required at the start of each operation.

High and unbalanced inventories

Difficulty planning coverage while balancing inventory policies, capacity, costs, lead times, and seasonality.

What to expect:

Inventory reduction

Better synchronization between operations shortens lead times, reducing WIP and allowing you to lower finished goods inventory through faster replenishment. The solution’s agility also enables rapid responses to demand changes, helping you avoid unnecessary inventory.

Increased productivity

The scheduling rules will group items of the same color for painting and automatically create a color gradient to reduce setups. Reductions in this and other areas, combined with decreased waiting times throughout production, can deliver efficiency gains of over 10%.

Reduce delays

Demand in the furniture market is highly variable, and the number of SKUs is very large. Improved visibility, faster scheduling, and greater accuracy in planning help reduce delays and stockouts, as issues are identified in advance, allowing simulations to take preventive actions and eliminate them.

Greater agility

Replanning is even more challenging than planning. A machine breakdown, rework on a component, or a change in demand for an item can create a cascading effect that requires rescheduling the entire plant. Responding quickly with a solid plan allows your team to focus on analysis and decision-making rather than just operational firefighting.