Two Difficulties In Implementing Informatization In Clothing Enterprises

Most of the implementation difficulties of garment enterprises' production informatization are not due to inappropriate products, or insufficient input of resources, but rather inadequate grasp of the two bottleneck problems of product data collection and production inserting of garment enterprises.

Production informatization is the basic work of enterprise information construction. The implementation of production informatization can not only achieve the management objectives of reducing production costs, improving work quality and shortening delivery time, but also a prerequisite for the implementation of information systems such as CRM (CustomerRelationshipManagement, customer relationship management), SCM (SoftwareConfigurationManagement, software configuration management), CC (CreativeCommons, knowledge sharing).

Therefore, the first element of the informatization of garment enterprises is to do well in production informatization.

The production informatization of garment enterprises can be divided into two levels.

The first level is technology informatization and post informatization. The informatization work at this level is relatively simple and easy to implement, and the implementation enterprises will soon taste the sweetness of informatization.

A typical example is the simplification of the procurement job. Taking the order material requirement calculation as an example, in the past, after each design was finalized, the purchasing personnel needed to take the drawings home for a few days before they could know the material requirements. After applying the information software, the work could be completed within one minute, and the work efficiency was greatly improved.

The second level is the informationization of production and operation process. The main content is to realize the whole process management from design, procurement to production and finished products, including logistics storage, cost and quality related contents.

The implementation of information flow in production and operation process is not ideal. Most enterprises have made breakthroughs in the application of electronic books such as purchase and sale, and the true value of production information system is still a certain gap in the promotion of cost, quality and delivery time.

In order to improve the production and operation indicators such as cost, quality and delivery time, many garment enterprises changed the information system in 2007, and implemented second or even third times.

However, judging from the present effect, this way has not been much improved.

In view of the reasons for this phenomenon, the consulting firm thinks that the difficulty in implementing the production informatization of the apparel enterprises is not because the products are not suitable, or the resources are not invested enough, but rather the two bottleneck problems of product data collection and production inserting of garment enterprises.

Data classification and collection

The biggest difference between garment production enterprises and traditional manufacturing enterprises is that clothing styles and product elements are very large. For example, some fashion companies design tens of thousands of kinds of clothing every year, and thousands of kinds of products are put into the market. How to classify and classify these styles and elements of products is the biggest management problem of garment enterprises.

For a clothing product, to effectively classify various management level information, we must describe it from two dimensions, one is the time dimension, that is, design, try on, process pfer, material pfer, production, and so on. One is the attribute dimension of the product itself, such as series, process route, material, color and so on.

A product model panorama with the attributes of the product as an example.

A series of dimensions: the product can be collected in accordance with brand, series, money and so on, so as to solve the problems of cost accounting and product library management.

Process dimension: classification and collection of data such as bed cutting, sewing, ironing, boxing and so on, not only solve the progress tracking of work orders, but also effectively solve the problem of piecework wages.

Material dimension: management of general materials, special materials and leftover data will solve the problem of rational utilization of safety stock and materials.

Color dimension: the collection of colors plays a very important role in solving product color management and dyeing process management.

In the current production information product software, most of the software products still use the traditional manufacturing industry's ERP thinking, do not sort out these data longitudinally, do not form the data flow of these dimensions, so the production system is more and more chaotic, let alone make use of the system to make decisions.

Production entry problem

The problem of producing and inserting the list is the second difficult point of the production information, and it is also the most urgent demand of the garment enterprises.

However, the contribution of most information systems in this area is negligible.

How can we ensure that goods are sold during the season and there is no stock after the season?

It is the first consideration of garment enterprises.

Under normal circumstances, enterprises can solve the problem of goods sold through inventory, and are generally unable to do so after the season, and can only be sold at a discount.

However, with the development of garment enterprises and the shorter and shorter product season, more and more products are produced, and product inventory is bigger and bigger. 1 billion, sales volume has 1 billion of stock. Enterprise profit has become stock and business risk is bigger and bigger. The traditional way of stocking is becoming more and more infeasible with the development of enterprises.

The development of information technology has made it possible to fundamentally solve this problem. Instead of logistics, information flow is used to meet customer needs by increasing response speed.

In terms of production informatization, the production system must have powerful inserting processing function, which can ensure smooth addition of orders without affecting the production of new products.

This method has achieved good results in ZARA company in Spain. The rate of increase has reached 70%, which has avoided the risk of inventory (over quarter inventory is less than 15%, while general enterprises are 30% to 40%), and script src=>