Define the model, options, and material record
01Start with one furniture model and two sellable configurations, such as a table in different dimensions or finishes. Bring the product identifiers, required components, quantities, units, and revision rules. Establish which record represents the customer selection and which bill of materials the production team should use. Tellency implements bills of materials with revisions, approval, activation, multi-level component explosion, and cost estimation. Demonstrate the correct BOM and revision for the selected product. Automatic option-driven BOM selection, a furniture configurator, and quote-time cost rollups should be validated separately rather than inferred from those features.
Review the BOM estimate before committing the order
02Tellency can estimate BOM cost from component quantities and recorded unit costs, including a configured manufacturing overhead percentage. Use your sample materials and inspect the inputs and result with the person responsible for costing. Agree who maintains those costs and how missing or changed values are reviewed. Keep an estimated component cost distinct from a finished-job margin or a promised selling price. Demonstrate the required treatment of labour, waste, substitutions, work in progress, actual consumption, and final valuation. Approval of a BOM cost is not by itself evidence that every production and accounting requirement is satisfied.
Follow the work order and a quality exception
03Tellency implements work-order release, start, hold, resume, and completion. Follow a sample order through those stages and inspect the resulting financial transaction. Ask the operator and finance team to review their records together, including a changed quantity or incomplete job. Quality inspections support passed, failed, rework, and scrap outcomes. Use a hypothetical finish defect to test who records the problem, who makes the disposition decision, and how production continues. Separately evaluate any capacity scheduler, nesting engine, cut-list optimizer, or automatic material-planning calculation your plant requires.
Keep material units and stock movement explicit
04Tellency includes unit-of-measure records and conversion between units of the same type, along with stock-transfer approval, shipment, receipt, and posting. Bring a fabric purchase, a hardware pack, and a timber item to establish the correct units and product configuration. A conversion between length units does not establish an automatic conversion between a board foot and a finished component. Show the exact purchasing, cutting, waste, and consumption rules needed for your materials. Test a short receipt or transfer discrepancy and inspect the resulting stock and finance records.
Connect showroom and dealer follow-up to operations
05Tellency includes CRM lead ownership, qualification, conversion, and opportunity pipelines. Retail workflows include loyalty cards, gift-card issue and redemption, reversals, and layaway stock reservations and payments. Demonstrate the customer handoff using the sales channels your furniture business actually operates. For showroom, dealer, and online requirements, confirm pricing rules, deposits, customer changes, returns, payment services, delivery, installation, and integrations individually. Do not assume that a retail or CRM module reserves production capacity, recognises deposits at delivery, or provides a connected dealer portal.
Compare ERP proposals using the same acceptance pack
06Tellency competes with NetSuite and other ERP platforms. Use the same model, BOM revision, material movement, work order, inspection, invoice, and reconciliation scenario in each demonstration. Record which requirements are supported, which need configuration, and which require another service or additional work. For US, Canadian, Indian, Pakistani, UAE, Saudi, or other operations, include the required entities, languages, currencies, tax outputs, payroll documents, and integrations in the evaluation. Those outputs need direct evidence and scope; a global or regional ERP label is not a compliance guarantee.
Plan migration, training, and the first production cycle
07Prepare the product and component master, units, BOM revisions, suppliers, stock quantities and values, open sales and purchase commitments, receivables, payables, and accounting balances. Test a representative load and reconcile the agreed control totals. Include unfinished work and superseded specifications in the migration decisions. Tellency platform pricing starts at $79 USD per user per month. Migration, configuration, deployment, integrations, support, and AI usage are confirmed by proposal. Around eight weeks is a typical planning reference; the actual schedule depends on discovery, data readiness, scope, and acceptance. Train each role on its own transactions before cutover.