AxisIQ for furniture manufacturers

AxisIQ runs furniture orders: BOMs of boards and hardware, custom orders, work orders through production stages, stock, dispatch and installation.

AxisIQ gives a furniture manufacturer one workspace for the whole order: custom and catalogue orders as sales orders, bills of materials of boards, laminates and hardware, work orders through cutting, edge banding, assembly and finishing, stock of sheets and fittings, dispatch with vehicle and e-way bill number — and, once you add it, installation at the customer's site. The Manufacturing template sets it up at signup, and Ask Axis, the built-in assistant, adapts it to a furniture shop floor.

How a furniture factory runs

Modular kitchens, wardrobes, office workstations and made-to-measure pieces are mostly make-to-order. A designer or dealer sends a drawing and a cutting list; the factory cuts boards on a panel saw or beam saw, edge-bands, drills, assembles, polishes or laminates, packs and dispatches; a carpenter team installs on site. Catalogue pieces run alongside, made to stock.

The pain sits in three places. Material: one order needs 18 mm plywood, 0.8 mm laminate, edge band by the metre, hinges, channels and handles, and a shortage of one hinge holds the whole kitchen. Stages: the owner wants to know which orders are in polish and which are waiting for hardware, and the answer is on a board in the shed. And the tail: the job isn't done when the truck leaves, it is done when the installation is signed off and the last payment comes in.

How the Manufacturing template covers it

Orders, custom or catalogue. Each order is a Sales order marked make to order or make to stock, with SO lines per piece and a delivery date. Retail and project enquiries can come in through the Request a quotation form as Enquiries. Dealers and builders are Customers with GSTIN and payment terms; Razorpay payment links through your own account collect advances, and each paid link becomes a payment record.

BOMs of boards and hardware. Plywood, MDF, particle board, laminates, edge band, hinges, channels and handles are Items with UoM in sheets, metres, sets or numbers, HSN code, GST rate, reorder level and a preferred supplier. A Bill of materials for each design lists its BOM lines — quantity per piece and a scrap % for board wastage — and its routing field records the stage sequence. For a one-off custom order, a BOM can be created for that design alone.

Material in and stock. Purchase orders to board and hardware suppliers, GRNs at the gate with accepted and rejected quantities (a chipped board is a rejection), and Stock levels per item and location with a computed Available figure. The dashboard's Raw materials to reorder table lists what has fallen below reorder level.

Work orders and output. Each piece or batch is a Work order against the sales order and BOM. Supervisors book Production entries — produced, rejected, reason and downtime — and a final Quality inspection before packing can send a piece back as rework, which opens a rework work order automatically.

Outside processes. Pieces sent out for powder coating of metal frames or for painting go on a Job work challan, and come back against it.

Dispatch. A Dispatch goes out with the template's Delivery challan PDF and carries the tax invoice, transporter, vehicle number and the e-way bill number you generated on the portal; a delivered dispatch moves the sales order to dispatched.

Production stages on a Work Queue

The template ships a Shop floor queue: every work order enters it when it is released, and it starts with generic stages — Cutting → Machining → QC → Ready for stores. In Smart Queues, or by asking Ask Axis, make it a furniture floor:

1. Rename and add stages — for example Cutting → Edge banding → Drilling → Assembly → Polish / lamination → QC → Packing → Ready for stores.
2. Print the auto-numbered Job card PDF for each work order; its WO number is the barcode each station scans. A scan moves the job to that stage, and scanning twice changes nothing.
3. Optionally cap how many jobs Polish can hold, and let Ready for stores accept jobs only from Packing.

Now "which orders are in polish" is the queue board, and how long each stage takes is a query in Analytics.

What to ask Ask Axis to add for furniture

• "Add an installation type: sales order, site address, scheduled date, carpenter, status, customer sign-off — and show installations on a calendar."
• "When a dispatch is delivered, create an installation for that sales order."
• "Add finish, colour and laminate code to SO lines."
• "Add a site measurement type linked to the customer, before the sales order."
• "Show orders waiting on hardware shortages on the dashboard."

The honest limit

AxisIQ doesn't generate cutting lists or optimise board nesting, and it doesn't plan material from your orders. BOMs are records your team keeps, and stock levels move when stores updates them — or when you add a flow to do it — not automatically when a production entry is booked.

FAQ

What is the best software for a furniture manufacturing business in India? It depends on whether you need tracking or optimisation. AxisIQ tracks orders, BOMs of boards and hardware, work orders, stages, stock, dispatch and installation in one place; it does not optimise cutting.

Can I track each order through production stages? Yes. Released work orders enter the template's Shop floor queue, whose stages you rename to your own; the job card barcode scanned at each station moves the order, and every move is logged.

Can AxisIQ track installation after delivery? Not out of the box — ask Ask Axis to add an installation type with a calendar of scheduled installations and a flow that creates one when a dispatch is delivered.

Does AxisIQ reduce board stock when a job is made? Not by default. Stock levels are kept by stores; a flow that adjusts stock from production entries can be added.

Can I take advance payments from customers? Yes. Payment links through your own Razorpay account can be sent for an advance, and each paid link becomes a payment record.

Start with the Manufacturing template — or see AxisIQ in action. Back to AxisIQ for manufacturing.