Configurable products such as kitchen cabinets can be both time-consuming and a challenge to create and manage in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Because of this, we have developed TRIMIT Furniture, an industry-specific solution based on Dynamics NAV. Our solution automates and streamlines your business processes and makes it easy to manage product variants - from design to delivery.
In this blog post, we will take a look at how TRIMIT Furniture can be used to configure an order with two dimensions.
Products With Many Options
Cabinets can consist of elements with many different options such as:
- Heights
- Widths
- Fronts
- Handles
- Drawers
In addition to all the options, there are restrictions as to what combinations are possible. For instance, the height of the cabinet influences the height and number of drawers, and also if it is possible to add doors and shelves.
Order Configuration in TRIMIT Furniture
In this example, we start with a sales order. The Furniture Shop UK wants to order kitchen cabinets, and these will be delivered from our location ORANGE.
On the sales order line, we enter the master number of the cabinet that we want to configure.
With the master number entered, a configuration page appears. Here we can specify the combinations for the cabinets. In this case the customer wants drawers in alternating colors. We can easily make this choice by using the 2nd dimension.
In the screenshot you can see the cabinet parts that have a front. These are white by default, and in this example we change the 2nd and 4th drawer into black.
On the configuration page, you can see that the choices of another front color has automatically added an additional amount on top of the basic unit price.
In this example, we say that the furniture company wants to order tree cabinets like we have just configured.
After the quantity has been entered, we get a message that tells us that the choices we have made during the configuration has also changed the unit cost for the kitchen cabinet.
Once the quantity has been entered, a related production order is automatically created.
In the screenshot, you can see the production order lines. Here we have all the item parts necessary for assembling the kitchen cabinets including the operations and machine setups. In the columns Measurement 1 and 2, you can see the length and width of the needed planks.
With the order configuration in place, you can start the production process by checking if you have enough materials on stock for this production order, but that goes beyond what I wanted to show you in this blog post.
TRIMIT Furniture can handle the calculations of raw materials, inventory picks, put-aways etc. and for an in-depth presentation of our comprehensive solution, I recommend that you contact us for a free demo by one of our product specialists.
How To Make Changes?
Sometimes, you need to make changes to a configured order. To see how this works in TRIMIT Furniture, we will change the cabinet handle from number 03 to 05.
Because we made a change, we get a warning saying that the sales order line has related orders. The related orders need to be deleted before a new one can be created with the changed configuration.
Once we have confirmed that we want to delete related orders, we can see the new handle and also that the adjustment amount sales has changed from 2,00 to 1,00. Because of this, we can expect a different unit price. Since the new handle is also cheaper, we can also expect a different unit cost.
In the screenshot we can see the messages showing the changes to the unit price and unit cost because of the change of handle.
If we take a look at the production order, we can see that the handle we just selected is now a part of the Bill of Materials (BOM).
More Information
For more information about our Microsoft Dynamics NAV-based solution for the furniture and home furnishings industry, please see the page TRIMIT Furniture.
You are also welcome to request a free demo or to contact us at [email protected].