Furniture industry, belongs to the decoration industry category, if the sale is the retail industry, if the production belongs to the processing industry, if it is with processing, it can also be called the secondary processing industry. Household industry refers to furniture, bedding, kitchen utensils, indoor accessories and commodities needed in daily life. It belongs to the category of consumer products industry.

The furniture industry has a representative role in light industry in our country. It plays an important role in the world furniture export trade. According to statistics, by the end of 2022, the number of enterprises above designated size in China's furniture industry reached 5,561, an increase of 271 compared with 2021; The main business revenue reached 856 billion yuan, and the total profit reached 53.75 billion yuan. Through the above data show that the overall development of household furniture industry, with considerable development potential and market prospects.

Home furniture foreign trade industry management difficulties are what?

Difficulty 1: sample management is complicated.

The furniture industry has the characteristics of customization. For different customers, the materials and colors of the corresponding product materials are not the same. The contents of the product materials include: packaging, pictures, accessories, raw and auxiliary materials. Such a complex amount of data, only rely on the traditional manual Excel to do, difficult to manage clearly.

Difficulty 2: Low efficiency of cost accounting.

In the household furniture industry, materials used in actual production (leather, sponge, fabric, spring, plate, wood, glass, etc.) are not connected with BOM budget data and are managed separately and independently. As a result, data are repeatedly made and the difference between budget cost and actual cost cannot be timely compared and corrected, and the quoted cost is not accurate enough. There is no effective understanding of material cost wastage.

Difficulty 3: the format of foreign trade documents is confused.

The contents of foreign trade documents include: Sample list, quotation list, order, invoice, packing list, customs declaration, inspection declaration, etc., different countries and customers will have different document format requirements, involving pictures, disassembly of multiple outer boxes, mixed loading of article number, multi-material customs declaration, separate container shipment, multiple destination ports, etc., mixed with a variety of complex factors, salesmen need to spend a lot of time and energy to process and make these documents, low efficiency.

Difficulty four: accounts receivable and payable are prone to error.

In the process of foreign trade business, advance payment, batch shipment, plus or minus costs, customer claims and so on will be involved. Whether it is the collection from customers or the payment to suppliers, manual operation faces a high risk of various mistakes and poor standardization.

Difficulty 5: The control of delivery date and production schedule node is not in place.

The customers of the current order have a high demand for customization, which requires production scheduling according to the quantity of the order, BOM structure, loss rate and processing requirements, as well as the inventory of semi-finished products and the actual situation of procurement. Manual processing is time-consuming and prone to errors, making it difficult to control the production schedule and delivery time.

Difficulty 6: The dynamic data tracking of procurement warehousing is not timely.

It is difficult to control the dynamic situation of whether the purchased materials are stored on time. It often happens that some materials fail to be stored as scheduled, resulting in production delay and unnecessary losses.