Business Intelligence & Spreadsheets for Furniture Manufacturers
Visualize your production, sales, cost and stock data with live dashboards. Make data-driven decisions, see trends in advance and increase your profitability.
Why Does Data Analysis Become a Problem in the Furniture Industry?
Furniture production has dozens of different data sources — orders, production, stock, cost, sales. If you can't turn them into meaningful information, your decisions rely on guesswork. Here are the problems you face every day:
Lost Among Excel Sheets
Production data in one Excel, sales figures in another, cost calculations in a separate file. For each report, different files are opened, formulas updated, data copied. An error in one cell breaks the whole analysis, and you never have up-to-date data.
Waiting Days for Reports
Monthly production report, sales performance, cost comparison — each takes days to prepare. Data is requested from accounting, a table awaited from production, a list arrives from sales. By the time the report is ready, the data is already out of date.
Inability to See the Current Status
How many orders came in today, how many work orders are open in production, which raw material is at a critical level, what is this month's turnover? The boss asks but there's no answer — everyone knows their own department's data, no one sees the big picture.
Inter-Department Data Inconsistency
Sales say 500 orders, production says 480, accounting issued 510 invoices. Which figure is right? Each department looks at its own source data, definitions differ, period filters differ. In meetings, numbers are debated and no decision is made.
Inability to Forecast Trends
How many sofas were produced this period last year, which fabric colour sold most, which customer segment is growing? Without trend analysis and forecasting based on historical data, planning becomes a shot in the dark.
The Manager's Difficulty Accessing Data
When the general manager wants data, a ticket is opened to IT or accounting, a report is requested, and the result comes days later. Data is needed at decision time but is always delayed. The manager can't open their own dashboard and analyze instantly.
How Does Business Intelligence Work with UR-GE ERP?
All ERP data flows automatically into the BI module — build your own dashboards with drag-and-drop.
Real-Time Dashboards
Your production, sales, stock and financial data update instantly on visual dashboards. Track your business's pulse from one screen with charts, tables and KPI cards. The dashboard refreshes automatically whenever data changes — no more report-building.
- Instantly updated KPI cards
- Bar, pie, line and heat-map charts
- Department- and role-based dashboards
- Mobile-friendly screens
Drag-and-Drop Spreadsheets
Work directly on ERP data with an Excel-like interface. Use formulas, pivot tables and conditional formatting — but the data is always current and from a single source. Build your own sheets with drag-and-drop and share them with colleagues.
- Excel-like formula and function support
- Pivot tables and cross-analysis
- Conditional formatting and colour coding
- Sheet sharing and permissions
Single Source of Truth
All departments draw from the same data source. Sales, production and accounting see the same figures. Data definitions, period filters and calculation rules are managed centrally — in meetings, numbers are no longer debated, decisions are discussed.
- Central data warehouse
- Standard KPI definitions
- Cross-department data consistency
- Automatic data validation rules
Trend Analysis and Forecasting
Trend charts based on historical data are generated automatically. Which product group is growing, which season is busy, which customer segment is expanding — all presented visually. With sales and production forecasts, you plan for the future.
- Periodic comparison charts
- Product-group sales trends
- Seasonality analysis
- Sales and production forecast models
Profitability and Cost Analysis
Product-based, order-based and customer-based profitability analyses with one click. Which sofa model is most profitable, which customer brings the most turnover, which raw material cost is rising — all presented with interactive charts. You make the right decisions to protect your margins.
- Product-based profitability report
- Customer-based turnover and profit analysis
- Raw material cost trend tracking
- Target vs. actual comparison
Automatic Report Generation and Distribution
At the time you set, automatic reports are sent to the people you choose. Weekly sales summary to the boss, daily production report to the factory manager, monthly cost analysis to the finance team — all automatic. Delivered as PDF, Excel or directly by email.
- Scheduled automatic report sending
- PDF, Excel and CSV export
- Personalized report subscriptions
- Instant alerts when thresholds are exceeded
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