The successful furniture company Brødrene Andersen Møbelsnedkeri A/S (Andersen Bros. Furniture Carpentry) use Microsoft Dynamics NAV (formerly Navision) and TRIMIT Furniture because the com-pany wishes to improve the information-flow in the entire process from orders to deliveries.

The name Andersen Bros. Furniture Carpentry established in 1961 does not sound particulary dynamic. Yet, make no mistake. The family behind the company is at full speed, and recently the company moved from Ris-skov to a newly built factory in Søften just outside Århus, Denmark.

Two generations work side by side in the company which produces high quality designer furniture, and the last couple of years it has grown with tremendous speed.

The company’s 60 employees create a growth in turnover of about 15-20 percent on the two brands ”Brødrene Andersen Møbelsnedkeri” and ”Zeta Furniture”.

SAFeTy AND VARIANT CoNTRol

”We chose TRIMIT Furniture for two primary reasons. Firstly, TRIMIT Furniture has very good references in the furniture industry. We have spoken to quite a few colleague companies, that use the system, and this has assured us that the system is the best choice for us, because CORNATOR has solved problems similar to ours before” says Henrik Andersen, economy- and IT manager. ”The other reason is the vast possibilities the system offers regarding configurations. The system can control an unlimited set of configurational variants in an easy and lucid way which helps our users. This is a great advantage to us.”

Henrik Andersen explains that for instance an oval dining table can be delivered in eight different types of wood, four different mouldings, six sizes, four types of surface treatment, eight leg types and up to ten extra leafs. Altogether, a countless number of combinations and from this, variants. Thus you need advanced IT to control the many variants without having the employees waste their time controlling the variants and com-pleting parts lists for the production.

IMpRoVeD Flow AND DelIVeRy TIMe

”We got a much better flow in the entire process from orders through production and logistics to the actual final delivery when we implemented TRIMIT Furniture,” says Henrik Andersen. Furhtermore, the Andersen brothers expect that TRIMIT Furniture and the movement to a new factory with more effective production and working conditions, will contribute to an enhanced productivity. A better flow and an enhanced productivity will first of all result in faster delivery times, which will strengthen the company`s competitive performance remarkably.

eDuCATIoN SeCuReS ouTCoMe

Andersen Bros. Furniture Carpentry has made a strategic choice about educating the users of the system. This has been done by buying a ticket coupon to CORNATOR’s training centre, to train employees in using the IT-system. The benefit is a far better advantage from the system while also giving the employees a better opportunity to use their competences.

Industry: FurniturePartner: CORNATOR Customer: Brødrene Andersen Møbelsnedkeri A/S

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ABouT CoRNAToR

CORNATOR is a Danish Partner of TRIMIT A/S and since 1990 it has implemented TRIMIT into more than 250 companies in Denmark. Furthermore, CORNATOR is a Gold Certified Microsoft Business Solutions Partner specializes in Microsoft Dynamics NAV solutions to manufacturing and trading companies within:

- Wood & Furniture - Textiles, Shoes & Fashion - Iron & Metal - Machinery & Electronics - Plastics and Rubber

learn more about the company at www.cornator.com

ABouT TRIMIT A/S

TRIMIT is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with both the Microsoft Business Solutions, and the ISV competency.

Our goal is to extend, optimize and improve the use of Microsoft Dynamics NAV in a manufacturing or trading company. This includes a web portal solution with seeming less integration to Microsoft Dynamics Nav and a complete CMS (Content Management) system.

The overall concept is the idea of a Standard system

The objective is that Microsoft Dynamics NAV and the TRIMIT solutions cover all requirements of the company thereby ensuring customizing to be minimized. Each company adapts the system to the company by adjust-ing parameters - not by programming customizations!

TRIMIT is developed as a standard component fully integrated with Microsoft Dynamics NAV and the devel-opment of TRIMIT is following the development of Microsoft Business Solution. The objective is that TRIMIT does not replace any functionality from Microsoft Business Solution, but extend and/or improve existing functionality.

Any Microsoft Dynamics NAV TRIMIT customer is kept up-to-date by frequent updates. Each update also provides the latest in functionality from Microsoft Business Solution.

All our customers are working on the exact same version of TRIMIT. New functionality is developed in close dialog with the Partners based on the needs of their customers and then distributed to all customers by the next update. This way TRIMIT is always matching the market demands and ensures that your company always will be up-to-date.

learn more about the company at www.trimit.com