Project Overview
The Kingswood Cabinets Portal is a full-featured, cloud-hosted Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system developed exclusively for Kingswood Cabinets, a cabinet manufacturing company based in Australia. The platform digitises and integrates every business process — from the first client quote through to post-installation field service — into a single, role-secured web application accessible by all internal teams in real time.
SAM replaces fragmented spreadsheets and manual processes across quoting, production, procurement, and field service teams — giving Kingswood Cabinets a single source of truth, improved operational visibility, faster quote turnaround, and tighter control over inventory and quality.
Challenges
Cabinet manufacturing is a multi-stage, multi-team operation with tightly coupled dependencies between quoting, production scheduling, materials procurement, and field installation. Kingswood Cabinets had historically relied on disconnected spreadsheets and paper-based workflows, resulting in data silos, quote delays, inventory inaccuracies, and limited visibility across the business. The goal was to consolidate every operational workflow into a single, real-time platform without disrupting day-to-day operations.
Solutions We Engineered
- Unified Quote-to-Install Pipeline: Built a dynamic quote builder supporting cabinet units, joinery parts, stone benchtops, hardware, and plumbing specs — with revision tracking, approval workflows, and automated PDF generation via Apache PDFBox.
- Production Management Suite: Delivered a real-time WIP dashboard across work centres, cutting list generation, CNC robot export reporting, and full edge banding process management including machine assignments and tape stock tracking.
- Procurement & Inventory Control: Implemented purchase order generation, call-up (material request) tracking, and full stock-take cycle wizards (count → recount → review → approval) for hardware, melamine, and edge tape.
- Quality & Field Service Modules: Developed site audit forms with annotated image markup, defect-to-draft tracking, field service job scheduling on a calendar dashboard, and zone-to-agent territory mapping.
- Role-Based Security: Engineered RBAC using Spring Security + OAuth2 + JWT with brute-force login protection (5 attempts, 60-second lockout), per-request HTTP audit logging, and AOP-based performance tracing.
- Automated Cloud Deployments: Configured three fully automated environments (Dev, Staging, Production) via GitLab CI / AWS CodeBuild, with Liquibase handling database schema migrations and AWS S3 managing all file attachments.
Tech Stack Used
- Framework: Jmix 1.6.2 (Spring Boot–based RAD platform), Java 11
- UI: Vaadin (via Jmix UI) with custom widget set
- Backend: Spring Boot, Spring Security (OAuth2 / JWT), Spring AOP
- ORM & Database: EclipseLink (JPA), Liquibase migrations, MariaDB
- File & Email: AWS S3 (ap-southeast-2), AWS SES (SMTP) + Jmix Email Templates
- Scheduler & Notifications: Quartz (Jmix Quartz addon), Jmix Notifications, custom in-app messaging
- Reporting & Import: Jmix Reports (PDF via Apache PDFBox), Jmix Data Import, Poiji (Excel → Java)
- REST & Audit: Jmix REST, Reports REST, Jmix Audit
- Infrastructure: Docker, GitLab CI, AWS CodeBuild, AWS (Dev · Staging · Production)
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