Procurement process starts with the bill of materials/bill of quanties document. However, you might have faced issues generating an accurate bill of materials for the order you want to move to production. There are various challenges you face at various steps:

• It is challenging to get an accurate count of plywood required of various thickness. This internally requires optimizing the plywood cutting first which is a cumbersome task. So often times businesses resort to calculating the area of the ply required and rounding it up to cover for wastage or adding some wastage percentage based on experience. As a result, sometimes you end up procuring extra plywood whereas other times you would run short of them. All of this leads to wastage, headaches and unnecessary increase in your production costs.
• Next, your laminates & veneer requirements directly depends on your plywood requirements. Laminates/veneers being quite expense you would usually order them in batches so that you don't procure more than what is required, this paying extra frieght and unnecesarily delaying your production while your team waits for the material to arrive.
• When it comes to edge banding, you need to calculate the perimeter of every panel based on the laminate/veneer being used. This very quickly spirals into an impossible task and as a result you would order based on rough estimates and reorder if you run out. Again, more wastage, slower production, increased costs.
• Finally, hardware such as hinges, channels, screws, etc. are required per furniture and when your order contains multiple furniture with varying quantity, it takes time to sum up all the required item counts.

We make this entire process dead simple for you with Woodwize. It all starts with the cutting list. All you have to do is provide us with the cutting list for each furniture in your order. Based on this: