Howdens Joinery is a leading fitted-kitchen manufacturer, serving in the United Kingdom and France at more than 800 depot locations and more than 10,000 products across kitchens, joinery, white goods, work surfaces and hardware. The company asked for an integration among existing SAP ERP and MES with a new supply chain, to ensure real-time product traceability and transform their production model from make-to-stock to make-to-order.

To expand the variety of kitchen colors offered to customers, we transformed the manufacturing from a make-to-stock to a make-to-order model. To face the increased complexity that comes with targeted manufacturing, we delivered end-to-end system integration and developed a new supply chain process for manageable, traceable, efficient production. We integrated SAP DM with the customer’s existing SAP ERP Central Component to enable the automatic sharing of product information in real-time as well as access to advanced analytics that support informed decision-making. Now, at the end of production, the customers customized order can be tracked in the supply chain, aggregated, packed and delivered to customers through an easy-to-use digital ecosystem of integrated SAP products.