For companies and freelancers operating in the contract furnishings sector

Designing, engineering, producing and installing non-standard or semi-standard furnishings for the hospitality, residential and cruise ship sectors is always going to be put to the test by customer expectations, architectural and final design drawings, last-minute changes, the management complexity of processes and the huge quantities of data that have to be handled.

PROGENIO MAXX^® and the Planstudio suite of applications have been created to help you overcome – with the greatest agility – the typical challenges that arise in a contract order.

Face the design challenges in the contract furnishings sector

BESPOKE FURNITURE

Ad hoc furnishing projects between product type and variant

Accepting a contract furnishings order means: running ad hoc projects for significant quantities (from two to four figures); managing diverse product types and variants and generating, for the various corporate departments involved, a huge amount of heterogeneous data and documents at a high risk of error due to the human factor and a lack of automation.

BUILDING MANAGEMENT

Structured processes and building management

From architectural design to engineering, optimising the multiple design processes – which are already critical in themselves – is essential: from defining the building and the environments, to creating shop drawings and mockups, up to defining the composition of the furnishings and the variants.

COORDINATION

Coordination of the various professionals involved

There are many parties involved in a contract, custom or semi-standard order: general contractors, architects, design firms, manufacturers, installers, assemblers, fitters on site, project managers, etc. This fragmentation makes the overall coordination and management of a project extremely difficult.

BILL OF MATERIALS

Management of encoding, itemised lists and requirements

In contract furnishings, the correct product “recipe” – the list of materials, components and sub-assemblies – with the installation specifications is the essential prerequisite for effectively managing the procurement and production processes for an accurate estimation of costs. Managing this information manually is the most widespread practice but also involves costly errors, all the more so if this involves manufacturing items with multiple configurations.

TRACKING

Unreliable traceability of the various levels of an order

Poor traceability represents one of the principal problems in the contract furnishings sector. It can create serious errors that could have repercussions on every phase of the project, from the purchasing office to the technical office, from production to assembly and to shipping. There are many consequences that involve a high risk of dramatically reducing your margins, the failure to hit deadlines, the customer being dissatisfied and your future business being compromised.

TIMING

Last-minute changes and tight delivery times

In the contract, custom and semi-standard sector, the party commissioning the work often places particular emphasis on defining tight delivery times and on the ability to request changes during the execution of the order. Thus, flexibility is essential in order to respond to changing customer needs and to be able to adapt to the challenges that always arise when executing these orders.

The poor integration of specific solutions often results in delays, errors, waste and lost margins.

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The importance of contract order management in the furnishings sector

With PROGENIO MAXX^® and the Planstudio suite of products, which have been specifically designed for the contract sector, you can take advantage of a different way of working – the Agile Contract – designed to support you in every phase of a contract furnishings order.

Simplify design with 3D and generate a structured, streamlined, updated and centralised flow of information. Integrate the BIM (Building Information Modelling) method and obtain the greatest collaboration and interoperability with the entire supply chain.

Increase automation, digital continuity and interoperability and reduce human error. Streamline your processes and rediscover your agility.

With PROGENIO MAXX^®, you can overcome every obstacle, however significant, to successfully execute your orders.

MANAGEMENT

SIMPLIFIED MANAGEMENT OF LARGE PROJECTS

PROGENIO MAXX^® lets you manage multi-level orders and define areas and sub-areas to facilitate the work of your project team – internal and external. Orders can thus be divided among several users in order to meet the delivery times.

Thanks to the centralisation of order data, to the automatic management of encoding with customisable rules and the automatic generation of itemised lists, lists of requirements and the shared technical documentation by supplier, processing phase and cycle, you will always be able to manage projects with numerous elements and parts to be produced whilst maintaining control and traceability.

FLEXIBILITY

FLEXIBILITY WITHOUT EQUAL IN THE VARIOUS DESIGN PROCESSES

The software offers you unprecedented flexibility in the design phase. And thanks to the integration with the CAD system, MicroStation^®, you can easily handle customised and complex projects by leveraging the various modelling modes available (solids, surfaces, mesh). PROGENIO MAXX^® also supports parametric functions to facilitate the design and management of machining. The ability to integrate customised libraries for types such as: furnishing components, hardware, lighting, etc. further speeds up the execution of the order whilst still keeping control of it.

VARIANTS

EFFECTIVE ORGANISATION OF THE PRODUCT TYPES AND VARIANTS

Thanks to the noted modelling flexibility and the ease by which changes can be made to the furnishings, PROGENIO MAXX^® allows you to store your types of assemblies (for example, base units, wall units, wardrobes, etc.) without having to follow the classic retail model (e.g. L60-90). This is because you can quickly modify, for example, the base of 60 and transform it into 68 or 73 and make the structural or aesthetic changes requested by the customer.

In addition to this, you can efficiently create colour and finish variants, customised by order and associated with the various types of product. The result? The development of a scalable BOM down to the finest level of detail.

COORDINATION

EASE OF COORDINATION BETWEEN THE VARIOUS PARTIES INVOLVED

Thanks to the greatest level of internal and external interoperability and to the digital continuity of data, PROGENIO MAXX^® simplifies communication and collaboration between the various parties involved in your contract order, such as: suppliers, general contractors, architects and other professionals.

The advantages are exponential: optimisation of the timescales, significant reduction in errors, always up-to-date data, the greatest control over the order’s execution

TRACKING

MANAGEMENT OF PROJECT DATA AND ITS TRACEABILITY

PROGENIO MAXX^® offers a centralised project data traceability and management solution, from the definition of the building and the environments and the furnishings down to the individual components. The automatic generation of all the information (from the itemised lists to the technical documentation) helps you keep track of each and every element involved in the project, reducing timescales, eliminating errors across the entire supply chain and increasing your margins.

TIMING

IMPLEMENTATION OF CHANGES AND RESPECTING DEADLINES

With the ability to centrally coordinate all the order data, as well as changes to it, in real time, PROGENIO MAXX^® helps you deal with last-minute change requests without upsetting your operations.

From making a direct change to the 3D design to real-time updates of encoding, itemised lists and all the technical documentation.

Automating processes gives you the ability to handle new, complex challenges and puts you ahead of your competition.

In summary, in the context of the contract, custom and semi-standard sector, adopting flexible, cutting-edge software solutions is a strategic decision in order to face the industry’s challenges and to ensure operational efficiency, customer satisfaction and sustainable, long-term growth.

Technology, therefore, becomes an essential ally for the company’s success in dealing with complex custom furnishing projects and the dynamic requests made by customers.

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