Furniture Procedures:

The differnce between successful furniture stores and furniture stores who feel like they
are playing catch up is procedures. The reason that the stores have it together in most
cases they have hung in long enough and over trial and error have worked out most of
the kinks and have pretty good procedures. The others hired the right people who worked
for those more together stores and have adapted those procedures. A small few have paid
to have a system put correctly in place but the magority of stores run the same procedures
with slight modifications. This does not mean it is the best system but it works.

I have dealt with stores who have brought in managers that have ran car dealerships or
electronic and other professionals in different fields and have used those systems and
it worked but there were minor glitches. If you are selling 27,000 dollar sofas and vendors
used a ven number gloabal tracking system. If you are selling items that range in size and
price points that damage can be hidden and before commisions get paid it needs to go
upstairs through a door frame and not get damaged and you need to locate the arm caps
and all this for the store to make 150.00 profit if no repairs or parts needed then you
need a different system.

I can spend less than a week in any department and find problems implement the fix and
cut unessasary steps to be more efficent.