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 ever-changing – while competition from low-cost markets is ever-growing. Creating brand differentiation is more dependent than ever on customer service and sales effectiveness. And market leadership and growth is more dependent than ever on understanding customer needs and providing the products and services to meet them.

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.

But 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.

SAP offers comprehensive solutions tailored to the requirements of furniture companies. Not only can SAP help you minimize the cost of integrating inefficient legacy systems, but SAP solutions for the furniture industry offer deeper visibility into your supply chain. The visibility you need to maximize business agility, ensure low total cost of ownership, and enable long-term success.

A strong customer base in the furniture industry demonstrates the industry's ongoing confidence in SAP as well as SAP's continuous commitment to the industry. See the list of just some of the customers achieving success with SAP solutions.