Furniture Manufacturing Platform (old) – The novel, federated approach for Industry B2B Platforms

MANUFACTURING SUPPLIERS

Upload your products only once and share across FMP-NIMBLE Platform to maximise your cross sector exposure and business opportunities.

BUYER/RESELLER

Use your company credentials across FMP-NIMBLE Platform and with NIMBLE Open API integrate only once into your procurement process.

LOGISTICS PARTNER

Customise your logistics services across FMP-NIMBLE Platform to extend your B2B relationships.

EARLY LISTING

Your company and your products/services will have already appeared in the searches carried out during the testing period, so it will be better positioned for future searches.

SUCCEED SOONER

When the platform is released (in production), you will have the tested knowledge of how to publish products/services, perform searches, do business transactions, ... so you will be more agile in building new business relations and executing transactions.

EARLY RATINGS

Your company will have "ratings" from other companies in the BETA phase, so better data for a better rating score.

IMPROVED VISIBILITY

Your company will improve in the response time and communication with customers and suppliers being as well more visible in the furniture supply chain all over Europe

PARTNERSHIP BUILDING

Access to new markets (geographical expansion) contacting with new customers and suppliers

INCREASED SUPPORT

As platform early adopter you will receive direct user support via phone, email and invited to dedicated workshops.

COMPANY REGISTRATION

A representative of your company must first register as a person and can then register your company. We check your registration information and if all is OK, your platform account is activated within a day. Now you can invite further staff to use the platform for your company.

PRODUCT DATA STANDARDS

We use OASIS’ Universal Business Language (UBL) as the standard for business processes. Products can be annotated using the eClass taxonomy and/or the Furniture Manufacturing taxonomy. There is also a possibility to extend the product classification scheme.

CATALOGUE MANAGEMENT

You can upload individual products or services, or use a bulk upload mechanism for multiple products, or use the database interface to connect with your own catalogue database. NIMBLE offers an API for this.

CUSTOM BUSINESS WORKFLOWS

The platform offers a variety of business processes ready for immediate use. It is also possible to customise workflows so that they fit with your established procedures.

TRUST & REPUTATION SERVICES

Every transaction you manage successfully will improve your trust rating and you can use the trust ratings in your own search for reputable business contacts. Likewise, poor services will result in lower trust ratings and the platform manager will set governance rules that are in the best interest of all reputable companies.

LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT

Logistics providers are welcome to offer their services in order to establish supply chains between manufacturers and suppliers. You have the ability to describe your services in order to be found by suppliers / manufacturers and you can search for open tenders.

OPEN API DATA CHANNEL

This is for your management and for your IT department: NIMBLE offers the possibility to directly link up shop floor information with management needs and so you can implement secure and private supply chain monitoring services that are governed by specific contractual clauses between trading partners.

TRACK & TRACE

Using a combination of the API channel and EPCIS logistics tracking services, you can easily implement customised tracking and tracing mechanisms along the supply chain, involving suppliers, logistics and manufacturers.

OPEN SOURCE

The NIMBLE software is published under an open source license which means that it can be further developed and improved and that there will always be service providers with sufficient knowledge of the system to solve your business problem. So there is a much lower risk of “vendor lock-in” than with proprietary systems.

Our company considers it is necessary and vital to be in contact and connected with the rest of the companies in the world, not doing so will make you obsolete. In this line the FMP gives us this possibility, it facilitates us to be able to do business between companies, to be more visible and all this in a faster and more efficient way. Therefore, from Micuna we consider it necessary that a company does not lose the opportunity to be on a platform like the FMP, and we invite all companies to participate.

MICUNA

Nuestra empresa considera necesario y vital el estar en contacto y conectado con el resto de empresas del mundo, el no hacerlo te dejara obsoleto. En esta línea la FMP nos da esta posibilidad, nos facilita el poder hacer negocio entre empresas, ser más visibles y todo esto de una forma más rápida y eficiente. Por esto desde Micuna consideramos necesario que una empresa no pierda la oportunidad de estar en un plataforma como la FMP, e invitamos a todas las empresas a que participen.