We offer the ideal solutions for digitizing the furniture industry's supply chain. And we can prove it.

Focus on efficiency in a dynamic environment with critical synchronization.

The furniture industry is a very dynamic sector, with sensitive demand and characterized by a very wide variety of products, with marked seasonality and increasingly short product life cycles. Production is also delicate, since it has several processes, high setup times and any lack of synchronization generates a brutal volume of in-process stock. Not to mention quality issues which mean that small batches are always being dropped, impacting on productivity.

Companies in the segment served:

Neo supports you in all your supply chain planning, from the long to the short term, dealing with industry features such as balancing stocks by product type, programming with paint color gradients, minimizing drilling and integrating sequencing with cutting plans.

We combine consultative expertise with cutting-edge technologies.

Get to know Opcenter APS

As the largest Siemens partner in the Planning and Scheduling portfolio in Latin America, certified Smart Expert, we have implemented the world's leading Opcenter APS software, designed to use advanced heuristics to balance demand and capacity and achieve optimized Production Planning and Sequencing.

Get to know nPLAN

nPlan is an innovative advanced production scenario planning platform developed by NEO with the mission of revolutionizing the digital acceleration of the Supply Chain. Generate your production planning scenarios in an agile, reliable and collaborative way.

Get to know Plannera

Aligning the whole company around common objectives is no easy task. Conflicting goals, misaligned decisions and internal squabbles are common in companies without structured integrated planning. And this leads to worsening service levels, inefficient use of working capital and assets and, at the end of the day, lower margins. The Plannera solution helps you establish, evolve and organize your S&OP process, giving everyone clarity on what needs to be done, and why.

Get to know Evocon

Simple and agile, digitize your factory data and optimize the performance of your equipment to the maximum. Evocon is a combination of IOT and plug-in-play software to help you understand your plant's behavior in an easy and intuitive way.

Meet the AX4

AX4 is logistics management software developed by Siemens Digital Logistics to optimize and simplify logistics management. Combining advanced technology and a customer-centric approach, AX4 offers an efficient way to manage transport operations, supplier deliveries, dock management, freight payments and much more.

Many products and components

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

Synchronization between operations

Different items of the same finished product need to be completed in sync all the way through to the furniture packaging process.

High setup and waiting times

Alternately manufacturing components with different attributes all the time, such as paint colors, is extremely costly due to the setups involved at the start of each operation.

High and Unbalanced Stocks

Difficulty in planning coverage by evaluating stock policies, capacity, costs, deadlines and seasonality.

What is expected with our projects:

Stock reduction

Better synchronization between operations allows for a reduction in lead time, which reduces your WIP and allows you to also reduce your stock of finished products, since resupply is faster. The agility of the solution also allows you to react quickly to changes in demand to avoid unnecessary stocks.

Increased Productivity

The programming rules will group together items of the same color to be produced in the paint shop, as well as automatically generating a color gradient in order to reduce setups. The reduction in this and other sectors, added to the reduction in waiting times throughout production, allows for efficiency gains of more than 10%.

Reducing Delays

Demand in the furniture market is highly variable and the number of SKUs is very high. Visibility, agility in scheduling and greater assertiveness in plans allow us to reduce delays and disruptions because they are identified in advance, allowing us to carry out simulations to take preventive action and eliminate them.

Greater agility

More difficult than planning is replanning. A machine breakdown, a rework on a component or a change in demand for an item can generate a cascading effect to reprogram the entire factory. Responding to this reality quickly and with a good plan allows PPCP's work to be more analytical and decisive, rather than operational.