ITE Partners addresses challenges unique to the furniture and cabinet-making industry using our team’s unparalleled combination of long-standing industry experience, cross-functional expertise, and pioneering spirit. For 30+ years, ITE Partners founders and senior team members have been deeply involved in the advancement of the woodworking industry by applying manufacturing philosophies and concepts such as Toyota Production System, lean manufacturing, mass customization, and networked manufacturing. Using this as the basis for innovation within the industry, our team members have developed software and integrated the state-of-the-art technology of the time, from departmental software solutions like CAD, CAM, and MES to building networked enterprise manufacturing solutions for the kitchen cabinet, office furniture, and institutional casework industry. Now, our team, which is based in both Germany and the United States, has a common drive to help companies throughout the industry achieve the “Art of the Possible.” Operating in North America over the last five years, we have used our unique ability to provide both a big-picture view and the necessary on-the-ground experience to develop and refine a methodical approach to solve our clients’ broader problems, support their Business Transformation Initiatives, and help improve operational performance. Together with our clients, we move through a continuous cycle of transformation, optimization, and expansion. As the umbrella concept for how a business is run, business transformation introduces fundamental operational changes and therefore has a profound impact on personnel, processes, and technology. Regardless of the greater purpose of the business transformation, it often involves digital components that affect business capabilities and processes and, ultimately, organizational performance. Maintaining operations amidst the introduction and transition to new technologies requires enterprise architecture expertise and IT flexibility. As part of our DNA, we understand the requirements of the industry’s business processes and leverage that knowledge to work collaboratively with our client partners and industry partners. We utilize our internally developed Templated Tools and Methodologies to support digitalization along the entire value chain from order to cash. This process is led by a clear focus on business process and factory automation to achieve operational excellence, which is accomplished by iterating through several core phases to architect the best-fit solution that leverages and enriches existing systems and incorporates new technology. The collaborative nature of ITE Partners’ approach is best demonstrated in our Operational Excellence Laboratory in Cary, NC. In this interactive, dynamic setting, the power of partnership is evident through immediate visualization of the cause and effect of different decisions. The ITE Partners team members can easily work together across geographies to develop solutions. For our clients, we can set up multiple scenarios and use cases using our business partners’ software and capabilities to demonstrate the impact of different decisions across the business, all within a risk-free environment.