Using Gerber’s Digital and Automation Solutions has allowed Best Home Furnishings to create furniture pieces from design to production in the time needed to keep its customers happy.
Best Home Furnishings was established in Ferdinand, Indiana in 1962 with one goal in mind: to make the best quality product at the most affordable price. Today, it’s one of the largest furniture manufacturers in the world with a commitment to quality and the total satisfaction of its customers. Best Home Furnishings has been a Gerber Technology client and partner since 1996.
Speed to market is a critical differentiator for many furniture companies. Being able to customise, produce and deliver high quality products in a shortened period of time is the key to maintaining a competitive advantage.
Best Home Furnishing runs a very quick schedule, and one of its best qualities is its speed of delivery. The company builds everything as a sold unit, holding nothing in stock, so it needs to respond to customers as quickly as possible.
Embracing digitisation and integrating systems would enable Best Home Furnishings to automate processes, streamline data transfer and workflows, gather insight at any step of the process, maximise throughput, minimise errors and reduce labor costs.
Using Gerber’s Digital and Automation Solutions has allowed Best Home Furnishings to create furniture pieces from design to production in the time needed to keep its customers happy.
Best Home Furnishings uses a number of Gerber solutions, including AccuMark®, AccuNest™, the MP Series Plotter and the Gerber Paragon® to cut upholstery and Taurus™ II to cut leather. Combining these solutions with Gerber’s three-tiered service has helped keep costs down and has minimised downtime.
With Gerber’s digital solutions Best Home Furnishing has picked up 2-3% on fabric utilisation and a 30-35% improvement in throughput. The versatility of the programs and how they integrate with various products throughout the organisation has allowed the company to continue to offer quality products, timely.
