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Business owners in the home furnishing industry plan every day. Sofas that need to be delivered, curtains that need to be hung, installers scheduled at a customer in one city while a delivery in another is still waiting. Outlook or a paper diary cannot keep up with this. A planning system for the home furnishing industry that is connected to your orders, lead times, and staff can.
LogicTrade developed a planning module built specifically for the complexity of home furnishing retail: configurable products, variable lead times, field service, and delivery.
Why Outlook is not enough for furniture store planning
A planning system in the home furnishing industry needs to account for much more than appointments. You need to know when suppliers are delivering, which installers and delivery drivers are available, and which products are ready in the warehouse. That information lives in your order system, not in your calendar.
With a standalone calendar, you retype everything manually. Lead times change, jobs run over, a delivery is delayed. Every change has to be re-entered. That costs time and leads to mistakes. An integrated planning system pulls this information directly from your ERP.
How the LogicTrade planning board works
The planning board is the heart of the planning module. On the left are your resources: delivery vans, installers, floor layers — each with their own colour. On the right are the plan items: products and services that need to be scheduled, filtered by sales orders, quotes, or service notifications.
Planning works by dragging. You pull an item onto the planning board, choose the day and time slot, and adjust the duration by making the block wider or narrower. The system knows the default time per job type, but you can always adjust manually. This way you put together a tight schedule in a short time.
You view the schedule per day, per week, or per month. This gives you an immediate overview of where there is still capacity and where it is getting too full.
Sharing with delivery drivers and installers
When the schedule is ready, you share it with your team. A route list can be printed or sent by email as a PDF to the employee. With the email you can include attachments: measurement forms, work drawings, and notes from the system. This way the employee receives a complete schedule in one overview.
If you use the DeliveryAssist or WorkAssist app from LogicTrade, the employee sees their schedule directly on their phone or tablet. No more paper needed.
Why an integrated planning system makes the difference
Because the schedule is part of your ERP, you do not need to retype data. Lead times from suppliers are automatically visible. When a delivery is delayed, you see it immediately in your planning board. And when a job finishes early, you can schedule the next one straight away.
Here are the key benefits:
Always up-to-date lead times: Supplier delays appear directly in your planning board, without manual updates.
No double entry: Order data, customer information, and product details are already in the system. You drag them into the schedule — done.
Overview for the entire team: Delivery drivers and installers receive their schedule via app, email, or print. Everyone works with the same information.
Faster switching: Job finished early? Delivery delayed? You update the schedule in a few clicks.