Customer reference
LW Office Furniture Warehouse
As one of the largest furniture liquidators in the Midwest, we purchase high-quality, gently used office furniture from across the U.S. These products are then resold at highly discounted prices at our Cincinnati and Louisville showrooms. We also serve the Dayton and Lexington areas. From workstations and cubicles to filing cabinets and conference tables, our 60,000 square feet of showroom space houses a wide variety of used office furniture.
The context
High-volume used furniture operations across multiple locations
LW Office Furniture Warehouse is a wholesale and retail furniture liquidator that purchases high-quality, gently used office furniture from across the United States and resells it at highly discounted prices through large showrooms in Cincinnati and Louisville, also serving the Dayton and Lexington areas.
Before the project, LW Office Furniture Warehouse was running a high-volume, multi-location used office furniture business without an integrated system to manage inventory and sales. Tracking stock, pricing and customer orders across several showrooms was increasingly complex, making it difficult to optimise operations and fully capitalise on sales opportunities.
The objective was to gain efficient, centralised control over inventory and sales across all locations, reduce manual effort, support reliable order fulfilment, and create the foundation for sustainable growth in a competitive office furniture market.
Their needs
One integrated ERP to streamline inventory and sales
LW Office Furniture Warehouse wanted to efficiently manage its high-volume used office furniture business across multiple locations using Odoo’s inventory and sales functionalities, combined with Captivea’s implementation expertise to optimise operations and maximise sales opportunities.
- Centralised, accurate inventory management across all showrooms and locations.
- Streamlined management of quotations, orders, and invoicing within a single ERP system.
- Optimised purchasing and stock levels to reliably meet customer demand.
- A clear, structured implementation with confirmed scope, budget, and timeline.
The proposed solution
An Odoo ERP foundation tailored to used office furniture
Captivea USA began with a complete analysis of the existing Odoo environment, leading structured business discovery workshops by theme and user groups to fully understand LW Office Furniture Warehouse’s operations. Based on this, they deployed Odoo ERP using Finance, Marketing, Website, Supply Chain, Sales, Services, Customisation, Human Resources, and Productivity apps, with a focus on Accounting, Invoicing, Inventory, Purchase, Manufacturing, CRM, Sales, Project, Odoo Studio, Employees, Discuss, and digital marketing tools. This unified platform now supports time savings, faster quotation generation, optimised purchasing and inventory management, e-commerce and website development, and automated communication campaigns that help increase sales.
The first step of this project is to perform a complete analysis of the client's Odoo environment.
Analysis objectives
- To be reassured on the faisability
- Show that we understood their business
- To confirm a budget
- To know and confirm how we will do it
- Know the timeline
Analysis processes
- Business discovery
- Workshops By theme / group of people / domains
- Create the deliverables documents
- Present it
- Handle feedback
Odoo apps deployed
The Odoo suite on this project
All Odoo applications, activated at the pace of the client's needs.
Website
Inventory & Manufacturing
Finance
Human Resources
Technical
The results
Benefits & Returns on investment
What the client gained, day after day, once the solution went live.
Time saving
- Centralised organisation of financial documents
- Generate Quotes in a Few Clicks
- Quick sharing of documents
- Simplified supply management
- Automation of intervention schedules
Productivity gain
- Centralised management of leads and customers, increasing sales team efficiency
- Smoother order processing with real-time stock tracking
- Clear visualisation of performance and key indicators
- Quick access to employee information
Increase in sales
- Improved client satisfaction through faster project delivery
- Better time management that helps allocate resources to the most profitable projects
- Identification of additional needs through ticket analysis
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