Furniture Hardware Challenge High-end Market Urgently Needs to Gather and Gather Competitive Advantage

With the development of our country's industrial technology, the role of hardware in furniture is no longer merely the connection of decorative parts and some moving parts. Its functionality is becoming stronger and stronger, and the fields involved are also becoming wider and wider. Diversification of substrates, structural reforms, and increased use of functions have made hardware accessories more demanding for versatility, interchangeability, functionality, and decorativeness. Furniture production has evolved from the previous hand workshops to the current mechanized mass production. Therefore, it is particularly important for furniture manufacturers to increase production efficiency, reduce costs, improve product quality, enhance the competitiveness of domestic and foreign markets, and increase profitability.

Furniture hardware challenges the high-end market to transform from "ordinary commodities" to "customized goods", to get closer to customers, to create value-added products and services in the furniture hardware industry, many furniture hardware manufacturers and end customers lack of contact, is too much Rely on retailers to get information on customer needs and expectations. Furniture hardware manufacturing industry must learn how to approach end customers, how to provide them with products, and to ensure their own profit? According to Luo Baihui, secretary-general of the International Model Association, this requires better marketing capabilities, better sales network, lean manufacturing and flexible manufacturing capabilities, instant supply chain operation capabilities, supply chain management, innovative thinking, and leadership skills. Good education and training, etc. A new business model.

From a manufacturing perspective, factories must be automated as much as possible in order to obtain maximum productivity and increase labor productivity. Therefore, new technologies and lean manufacturing may be needed to reduce costs; at the same time, workers’ education and training Increase investment in the development and research of new products, so as to cultivate workers with special skills, create high-end products, and sell for a good price. If we continue to produce general merchandise products and provide low-level services, then we will continue to lose our market and hand over to regions where labor is richer and cheaper.

Establishing related advantages centers or accumulating competitive advantages According to related experts, agglomeration refers to a group of companies that are geographically close and related to each other and that have a synergistic organization in a specific area and are linked together through common interests and complementarities, and developed through supply chains. Strategic partners work collaboratively in all aspects of the entire supply chain to make the most efficient use of resources.