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Entrepreneurs and attendees asked questions one after another:
"Your workshop is so clean! Why can't we see any dust at all?"
"Why are there no defective products visible on the shop floor?"
"How do you manage to keep your work-in-progress (WIP) inventory so low?"
"How do you achieve such a high order fulfillment rate?"
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In the ancient city of Xi'an, traditional wood craftsmanship and digital innovation shone together as ideas and practices collided. From April 7th to 8th, the Nanyang Dike Digitalization Exploration Journey was successfully launched. Numerous entrepreneurs from Vietnam and across China gathered to unlock the underlying logic of digitalization in solid wood whole-house customization and witness a successful transformation model from finished furniture to high-end customized home furnishing. This in-depth study tour on digital upgrading in the home furnishing industry concluded perfectly!
PART 01: Tea & Digitalization
Tea Brewing and Digitalization Chat: Sparking New Ideas
On the evening of April 7th, the "Tea & Digitalization" session served as the intellectual starting point of this exploration journey. Multiple home furnishing executives sat together, sharing their current business status and pain points, and engaging in mutual discussions. They expressed that they attended this private board meeting because they were facing specific problems and confusion, hoping to seek advice, learn, and find solutions here.
Addressing the various management pain points faced by the entrepreneurs, Professor Zhang Aiguo from Sofun Software provided deep analysis and precise guidance. This intellectual feast offered clarity and enlightenment, transforming digitalization from a cold technological issue into a strategic consensus regarding corporate survival and development. It also helped home furnishing enterprises set the right direction and establish a solid foundation for their digital transformation.
PART 02: Path Decoding
Top-Level Thinking Shares Methods: Providing a Blueprint for Transformation
On the morning of April 8th, an in-depth sharing session on top-level design kicked off the digitalization exploration. Facing the severe industry involution, Nanyang Dike did not shy away; instead, they tackled the pain points head-on and offered sharp solutions.
Wei Yajuan, General Manager of Finance and IT at Nanyang Dike, took the stage first to deliver a speech and review the company's development history.
Following her, Professor Zhang Aiguo from Sofun Software shared insights on "Top-Level Thinking of Digital Flexible Management Systems." He pointed out that the digital transformation of solid wood home furnishing enterprises must begin with establishing a "Digital Intelligence Mindset." This is not merely a technological upgrade, but a systematic engineering project that connects the entire logic chain of design, production, supply chain, marketing, and service at the strategic level.
Teacher Zhang Zhenxiao from Sofun Software presented on "Key Elements and Application Solutions for Building Successful Smart Manufacturing at Nanyang Dike." By analyzing Nanyang Dike's success story, he demonstrated how to specifically plan digitalization from a holistic perspective.
Teacher Zhou Lijuan from Sofun Software shared "Practical Applications of AI in Smart Manufacturing." By showcasing current AI implementations in home furnishing smart manufacturing, she clearly demonstrated the infinite possibilities of technology reconstructing productivity—the deep integration of AI and smart manufacturing can increase efficiency tenfold or even a hundredfold in multiple scenarios, while significantly reducing labor costs. Teacher Zhou also mentioned that good AI application is inseparable from digitalization, and data is the foundation for deeper AI implementation.
PART 03: Witnessing Smart Manufacturing
Benchmark Factories Show Hardcore Strength: Digitalization Proven in Practice
What you get from books is shallow; true knowledge requires personal practice.
The factory digitalization tour was the core segment of this event. Stepping into the Nanyang Dike Smart Manufacturing Base, entrepreneurs touched the "visible and tangible" digitalization up close. From product R&D to workshop production, and from order processing to logistics delivery, the digital footprint across the entire process interpreted the true essence of solid wood whole-house digitalization.
Through the real-scene presentation of seven core digital highlights, Nanyang Dike's hardcore strength was fully displayed. From products, workshops, production lines, to management, the entrepreneurs witnessed industry-leading digital workshops. They genuinely felt that smart manufacturing is not an exaggerated display, but a systematic change rooted in the frontline and serving business operations. Many guests remarked, "This is the correct way to unlock solid wood home furnishing digitalization—a truly replicable transformation model!"
PART 04: Ecosystem Prosperity
Face-to-Face with the President: Brainstorms Spark Deep Reflection
Subsequently, Hao Yan, Vice President of Nanyang Dike, shared on the topic of "Nanyang Dike's Digital Intelligence Growth Path." He detailed the company's leap from finished furniture to high-end customized home furnishing and showcased the phased achievements made through the digital flexible management system. For instance, the on-time delivery rate increased by 80%, and the production cycle was shortened by 57%. Through full-process digital control of orders, scheduling, materials, processing, and packaging, efficiency was greatly enhanced, manufacturing costs were controlled, and profitability was significantly improved.
After Hao's sharing, entrepreneurs freely expressed their views and raised their current confusions, hoping for guidance. Several executives from Nanyang Dike took turns to answer every question without reservation, earning continuous praise from the attendees, who thanked Nanyang Dike for their selfless generosity.
Wei Yajuan, General Manager of Finance and IT at Nanyang Dike, made a classic statement worth pondering: "The finance department is not the controller of cost data results, but an observer." This remark enlightened everyone.
Many companies expect the finance department to control costs. However, costs are generated at every link in "R&D, production, supply, marketing, and service." Finance is merely the final auditor. If the preceding processes are not controlled, it is too late by the time it reaches finance; costs simply cannot be controlled. Therefore, driving digitalization from the business lines to make costs clear and data accurate at every link is the key to cost control.
An entrepreneur asked at the meeting, "Did Nanyang Dike's employees accept digitalization from the very beginning?"
Mr. Chen, who is in charge of production, shared honestly, "At first, employees were somewhat resistant to digitalization. But through continuous training sessions, we helped them understand what digitalization could do for them. Later, they stopped complaining and started to tolerate it. Eventually, they fell in love with digitalization, and now they cannot live without it. This is because it genuinely helps them improve efficiency and reduce their workload."
Nanyang Dike has submitted a satisfactory answer to the exam of enterprise digital transformation. But as Mr. Chen mentioned, this requires a process. As Vice President Hao repeatedly emphasized, achieving successful digitalization is inseparable from the determination and deep involvement of the company's top leader.
Digital transformation is an endless expedition, and every gathering of wisdom lights a beacon for the industry's path forward. After the event, many entrepreneurs stated that they wouldn't have realized how many outstanding individuals and companies exist if they hadn't stepped out. The previously unsolvable problems found answers today; it was truly a trip well worth taking.