Case Study: Hill’s Panel Products achieves streamlined operations and 4x turnover with De Facto Software

HPP was formed in 1991 with the sole aim of supplying components to the furniture industry

Hill’s Panel Products (HPP) is a UK distributor of sheet materials, doors and fittings for the furniture industry. As the business and product range expanded, HPP needed a truly integrated financials and logistics solution to manage complex mixed orders, in-house transport and load planning, multiple product-specific warehouse areas, and timely shop-floor reporting to support growth.

De Facto implemented a full ERP suite (Distribution & Manufacturing, Financials, CRM, DMS, WMS and BI) plus an integrated e-commerce site with customer “builders.” HPP moved to sales-order-driven production, automated warehouse and load/drop planning, and nightly BI data cubes for fast reporting. The result was significant efficiency and cost savings, a shift from made-for-stock to made-to-order, over 6,500 online orders processed, a record month of online sales (+20%) and a September turnover four times higher than the same month the previous year.

Hill’s Panel Products

Dan Mounsey

Marketing Manager