Analysis of the Reasons for Long Delivery Time of Wooden Door Industry

"Long delivery time" is the common weakness in the entire wooden door industry.

In the door and window dealership, you can always hear the dealer say something similar to the customer: "If your home decoration starts at XX, be sure to order at least one month in advance."

One-month lead time, which is the time that the company can promise in the local or nearby city, is replaced by the brand of the remote area. The solid wood door delivery time is more than 70 days (although in the above table, many dealers do not have Fill in more than 70 days of supply data, but through our investigation unannounced visits, found that such manufacturers occupy a certain percentage, even including some companies in the industry have a certain reputation). The process from opening the door to the billing, manufacturing, production and transportation... is complicated and time consuming, especially for solid wood doors, which require many paint processes and take longer. There are mainly the following reasons:

1. Because of the selection of materials for solid wood doors and solid wood composite doors, there are certain limitations in the production process, and there are different production cycles, but generally it will not be less than 25 days. Too short time will affect product quality.

2. The size of the door hole is not uniform, resulting in no uniform size of the wooden door. If the size is not uniform, it cannot be mass-produced, and only order-type production can be implemented. Therefore, many wooden door production enterprises do not have production plans. The production plan is out of touch with the procurement plan, and the semi-finished products are unreasonably equipped, causing backlogs, sometimes out of stocks, and not being delivered on time.

3. The reasons behind the production equipment. The current industry is more about small factories, small equipment, and even hand-workshops. The entire wooden door industry presents a mixed situation with mixed interests.

4. There are three common problems in the production and management of door companies: 1). The production is not complete, the production control mode is backward, and the site is chaotic; 2) the processes are in disorder and the semi-manufactured products are in disorder; 3) the systematic information processing capability is poor.

It seems that the increase in delivery time is a major weakness for the current wooden door companies and it is unlikely that there will be a substantial improvement in the short term.