Make better sofa logistics

With the additional flow of outsourcing industry in Asia, the United States sofa enterprises in the supply chain becomes longer and longer. However, the United States in the hope that consumers have more choices of products at the same time, delivery time can be shortened. As a result of these factors in the hope that the success of the sofa business, is undergoing a dramatic change in the industry, that is, the need for effective logistics management to enhance the competitive edge. In order to allow more efficient logistics network, enterprises need to choose their own mode of the supply chain, supply chain partners and enhance co-operation and the use of new technologies to better decision-making and management.

The recently held a sofa to create standards and an international seminar on the United States Mississippi State University associate professor of industrial and systems engineering, logistics and transportation director of the Laboratory of Dr. Jin Mingzhou to the participants in the United States on the sofa with the logistics industry system, “Logistics: sofa Competition is a key issue, “the sofa business logistics management challenges. He said at the meeting that in 2006 U.S. consumers in the furniture and bed civilian spent 83,920,000,000 U.S. dollars more than in 2005, an increase of 6.2 percent. In the United States, in the past 10 years, China’s imports from the sofa, only 60% of the cortex is a little more, the sofa fabric import growth of nearly 3 year-fold to about 6,250,000,000 U.S. dollars. China’s imports from the sofa in the finished product in 2006 grew by 37.9 percent. Expected to show that imports from China to the United States and sofa sofa accessories will continue to grow, especially cloth sofa.

    While other high-tech industry has been widely used, but the furniture manufacturing and logistics industry in new technology to be used with a lag. Dr. Jin Mingzhou not think so, furniture enterprises need to further investment in new technology to make their own success or in this dynamic change so much in the environment to survive. Bar code should be used to track the number of parts or products, and the precise location information. ERP software such as SAP, should be used in the production and logistics plan in order to better forecast, inventory management, logistics, as well as network design and operation. Along the supply chain, different segments, including manufacturers, logistics companies, agents, distributors, and retailers need to share information through electronic data exchange technology to achieve more accurate and timely. In addition, U.S. furniture manufacturers in the supply chain of variable length, making the consumer the United States needs more custom sofa, as well as faster delivery times, which is to promote effective supply chain management has become dynamic fast changing environment in the United States sofa Manufacturer’s important to the success of our competitive advantage. Therefore, the United States or Asia, sofa manufacturer, to make it more efficient logistics network, according to the needs of its size, competitive strategy, customer needs to determine the appropriate supply chain management. In addition, to strengthen their links in the supply chain coordination and the use of high technology to improve its decision-making and logistics management.