The office furniture manufacturer Dencon A/S’ demands for their IT-system are clear: it must be able to handle everything. ”When we recently went looking for a new system, we knew that we wanted a totally integrated IT-solution,” says Dencon’s manager ”The system should be able to manage everything from finances, stock and sales to production.” Dencon chose Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Formerly Navision) and TRIMIT Furniture and estimates that the dynamics in the system corresponds well to the company’s reality.

Dencon from Denmark produces elegant, ergonomically correct office furniture, and they market and sell the furniture in places like Scandinavia, Great Britain and the Middle East. Dencon A/S has 50 employees and the turnover has grown with 75 % over the past years.

At Dencon, the customer gets it as s/he wants. The ergonomically correct office furniture can be customized to each customer’s needs – whether it regards color, wood sort, size, etc. Everything from a leaf to a complete piece of furniture can be tailored. Effective management of customized products is one of the many things, which Dencon’s IT-system must be able to do.

”When we recently decided to change our system, we wanted a totally integrated IT-solution,” says Dencon’s manager, Henrik S. Feld. ”The sys-tem should be able to manage anything from finances to stock to sales to production.”

VARIANce AND MoDel buIlDINg

”CORNATOR sounded interesting. They had experience within the industry as well as good references. I made a quite intensive trip visiting CORNATOR’s reference customers to find out if CORNATOR and TRIMIT Furniture could meet our demands for an IT-solution,” says Henrik S.Feld.

Dencon especially noticed that TRIMIT Furniture is suitable for small and medium sized companies, that it is flexible, and that it can manage several variants. Furthermore, the system should be good at building models, and thus save time in the build-up phase. If the IT-system has a template, which enables it to figure out most things by itself, this will save a lot of time for the company. This is especially important for companies with many customized solutions.

IMpleMeNTATIoN AND upgRADINg

Henrik S. Feld also focused on other things, when he investigated CORNATOR’s reference customers: the phases of implementation and upgrading were important. ”Implementing a new system is a big and tiresome job. Before we started, we wanted to make sure there would be light at the end of the tunnel. Furthermore, we wanted a system that could be upgraded relatively easy whenever a new software update would ap-pear. CORNATOR’s customers assured us that TRIMIT Furniture would be suiteable in both respects,” he explains.

Industry: FurniturePartner: CORNATOR Customer: Dencon A/S

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INTegRATIoN WITh DeNcoN’S pRoDucT coNFIguRAToR

Another reason for Dencon’s choice is the company’s product 3D configurator, Furnish Pro. A product configurator is a program, which the salesman use to do visualizations for the customer. This way, the customer can see what the furniture will look like switching between different modules, wood sorts, colors and sizes. Furnish Pro can be integrated with TRIMIT Furniture which enhances the usability of both systems.

”Actually, we value the fact that TRIMIT Furniture is based on a Microsoft-product. This provides continuity because we know that it will stay on the market and it will develop continously. Furthermore, it is easy to use and easy to find employees with experience using the system,” says Henrik S. Feld.

coopeRATINg WITh coRNAToR

Henrik S. Feld explains that so far the implementation has been unproblematic. ”We were slightly delayed, however, the level of activity in the house was the reason for this - these things happen. CORNATOR has been good at controlling the project, but of course they cannot control our activities,” he says.

Henrik S. Feld, moreover, says that the dynamics of the system are similar to the reality of the company. He expects that it will relief the daily tasks as soon as the company has become acquainted with the new system. Furthermore, he expects that the company can deal with more customers and respond faster to the needs.

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 adjusting 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