Footwear Industry ERP Selection Focuses On "Fit".

Teno shoes company is a company that produces fashionable women's shoes. With the intense competition in the market and the increasing pressure on business, the boss decided to strengthen the management, reduce costs and enhance competitiveness by ERP system.

Gao Jun is the head of ERP selection of gown company. Gao Jun's experience in shoemaking for many years shows that shoes must be fit and comfortable.

Too big is easy to fall, and too small to pinch.

Gao Jun is thinking about these days. How can we choose the ERP suitable for the foot of the company?

The pressure behind the surface fashion is huge. (1) in order to adapt to the rapid change of season and style and personalized production demand, the shoe making enterprises almost all face the following problems: (1) the product life cycle and production cycle are continuously shortened.

The trend of multi product and small batch production is increasing, and shoe making enterprises are facing serious difficulties in order and delay in delivery.

The manual work mode of the shoe industry is serious, and the duplication of labor between the departments is serious.

The information communication between various departments is not smooth. The planning, timeliness and accuracy of enterprise procurement and production are poor.

Management tools are lagging behind. Most shoe-making enterprises still remain in the traditional mode of managing people. The internal control system can not be effectively implemented, and there are many loopholes in management.

3. Material management is difficult and the consumption of materials is excessive. Due to the cutting, the leftover material will inevitably generate many difficulties in management, resulting in high cost and low profit margins.

(4) batch number management.

Footwear enterprises need more stringent batch management.

But the lack of IT technology guarantees that batch management is difficult and tracked chaos.

The application level of information technology is backward, the information response cycle is long and the accuracy is poor. Enterprise management can only make decisions based on experience, affecting the accuracy and timeliness of decision-making.

(2) what is the biggest pressure on shoemaking enterprises?

The production process of shoemaking enterprises is generally divided into sample development, business communication, procurement, warehousing, production management, cutting, material preparation, needle truck, molding, and finished product shipment.

The production capacity of a shoe factory mainly includes three aspects: production cycle, quality and cost.

Only timely understanding of customer needs (including materials, packaging and style requirements), the development of plate can only make samples at the fastest speed, and calculate the amount of each SIZE.

If the development department does not work carefully or has poor judgement of the shoe type, it will cause frequent changes in the new shoe type data (BOM and dosage), which will cause trouble to the purchasing and production departments, which will seriously affect the cycle, cost and quality of this shoe production.

Therefore, the biggest pressure of shoemaking enterprises is mainly in the following aspects: 1. Information communication.

Therefore, we often purchase unqualified materials, which aggravates the cost of materials.

For example, the material management and purchasing departments are very clear about the links of raw materials in the supply chain, but after they reach the production line, they become "black holes". What exactly is the state that is only clear through inventory and brings a lot of trouble to material management.

2. Frequent changes in typing will affect the delivery period.

When the development of materials, materials, and moulds are constantly changing, the development time of typing will be too long, which will lead to insufficient time for subsequent order production, resulting in delay in delivery.

For example, procurement has been purchased according to the material and dosage of the developed sample, but when modifying the BOM or dosage, it will inevitably lead to material waste and increase cost.

If the material is not enough, it will not only delay production schedule, but also cause a lot of problems.

For example, the site may have been led by materials to produce and rework, resulting in longer production cycles or lower quality.

The choice of "fit" ERP is the only way to walk smoothly, but the discrete manufacturing industry, regardless of electronics, machinery, automotive parts and ERP systems, almost invariably uses the universal ERP.

But for some special industries, such a system can easily be strongly excluded. The shoe industry is such an industry.

Shoemaking industry is a very traditional manufacturing industry, labor intensive, the overall quality of managers is low, the product styles are many, the number of codes is large, and the characteristics of single shoe orders are small, making production become a complex matter.

Moreover, managers are only willing to use industry terms to describe products and materials. If you want to fully accommodate the usage habits of the universal ERP system, the efficiency will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, in the shoemaking industry, the implementation of universal ERP system has great resistance, and their psychological conflict is relatively large.

In the past, more shoemaking enterprises only used some small systems developed by themselves to help manage inventory and procurement.

But these systems are just a simple imitation of manual work, and rarely can significantly improve business processes and improve planning methods.

How to make the shoemaking enterprises make full use of the advanced management thought of the mature ERP system, and to maximize the traditional business habits, has become a bottleneck for shoemaking enterprises to manage.

Aiming at the production management characteristics of shoemaking industry, we should solve the problems of order tracking management, material procurement management and tracking, inventory control of materials, fine management and multidimensional analysis of inventory products.

When choosing shoemaking ERP software, we must pay attention to the production management characteristics of shoemaking industry.

(1) the role of BOM in managing BOM is mainly MRP, materials and costing.

The shoe industry is more special than other manufacturing industries. When the master of the house made the sample, the basic BOM was confirmed.

Because the footwear industry will generally use cutting software to assist in material cutting and improve material utilization.

Therefore, BOM plays a decisive role in the production cost of shoe ERP system.

BOM and material master data are the main sources of material data for production planning. For example, the materials and quantities required for each style and color are automatically specified, and the material procurement and utilization are automatically decomposed according to the requirements of the order, and materials are accurately managed to avoid backlog and repeat purchase.

It can be said that BOM is the core of the footwear industry's business driving. Without stable and clear BOM, there is no ERP for shoemaking industry.

Therefore, BOM should have a complete coding rule in the coding of data such as shape, location and color matching. If the coding rules are not scientific, coding will be repetitive and chaotic. When a material is numbered, it will cause great distress to material purchase, warehouse inventory and order costing.

Finally, the footwear industry BOM system can also interface with several PDM (product design data management system).

(2) the development and management of the printing industry, when the BOM data is incomplete and does not strictly regulate, will cause the wrong ordering and missing orders of the purchasing materials, which will cause great trouble to the production.

The ERP software of shoe industry must have BOM management in different development stages. It can automatically analyze material cost and offer quotations for BOM products in different stages of development. It will greatly reduce the quotations of business departments, and provide accurate data for mass production and purchase.

(3) the purchase order management shoe industry needs to purchase a lot of materials, and there are many new materials.

Therefore, the purchase order must be very flexible and can be manually adjusted to meet the actual management requirements of the enterprise.

For example, generally speaking, shoemaking enterprises have these three modes of production purchase order: (1) run MRP to generate material requirement plan, then purchase analysis, choose supplier to produce purchase order.

(2) considering the inventory in the master production plan, making production reservation and producing purchase orders.

Enter the purchase order directly.

In view of the multi-purpose characteristics of materials, the selected ERP software procurement module should provide users with their own needs and make use of different conditions to freely assemble and order related materials.

In this way, small orders can be made and large orders can be made.

At the same time, ERP system should have backlog material inventory control system, automatically calculate material backlog data in material procurement, material storage and material acquisition link, so as to make inventory material backlog clear and avoid a large number of unreasonable inventory.

(4) logistics management now uses manual or small systems used by shoemaking enterprises because of poor consistency and confusion of material coding, resulting in the inaccurate number of inventories.

Therefore, the selected ERP system should be able to automatically calculate the required material quantity and arrival time according to the production plan, and generate accurate material procurement plan, reduce material and material, and reduce stock funds.

In the production of materials, the system must strictly control the quantity of the order material in the standard dosage, so as to control the material cost of the order.

(5) production management, which is the core of the management of shoemaking enterprises, generally includes these aspects: production process flow, production scheduling, production requisition, quality inspection and production warehousing.

Shoemaking process is generally manual operation, and the labor cost is high when the process is unreasonable.

Therefore, the ERP system can accurately calculate the standard production capacity and standard working hours of the product by analyzing the capacity of the products and the standard cost analysis of the products, so as to provide basis for production planning and performance evaluation.

On the other hand, it is also required that production plan and production list can provide two main production plans for stock and order for production.

Finally, it is also necessary to provide the production change function, allowing the main production plan to be modified arbitrarily without affecting the standard BOM and process flow.

(6) ERP terms should be in line with the footwear industry's habits, such as general processing of different brand mark requirements. Many shoe making enterprises have been dealing with shipping marks and patterns in the process of ordering inner boxes and outer boxes, which has been a headache for general ERP system software.

At present, generic ERP is only suitable for the general manufacturing industry, and can not meet the needs of shoemaking enterprises.

When choosing general ERP, it will bring many troubles, and the lesson may be the pain of many shoe making enterprises.

So where is the shoe making industry?

Where is the trouble?

We do not want to list some obvious contrast between them, so that you can understand the difference between them when choosing type.

(1) general software is unable to deal with shoe industry BOM footwear industry BOM is the primary test of ERP system.

BOM is the source of data, and is the basis for ERP to carry out MRP operations.

If there is a problem with the structure of BOM, MRP can not be used.

If MRP can not be used, the staff can only rely on experience instead of data to make decisions. There are no two kinds of materials in hand age, no precise material management, and no improvement in material and material shortage.

For example, one of the BOM characteristics of footwear industry: a article (type) has a variety of size.

But the BOM structure of general software does not have the concept and ability of size.

Under normal circumstances, the universal ERP will take the size into article (type), but one of the characteristics of shoes is that the amount of material used in other size can not be analogous with a certain proportion of size.

Therefore, BOM is inaccurate and MRP operation is inaccurate.

(2) there are actually two BOM from shoe samples to large orders, which can not be handled by general ERP.

Generally speaking, a product in the ERP system can only correspond to one BOM, but the footwear industry has two BOM.

One is the typing sample BOM, the other is the large order BOM, which is a very important feature of the footwear industry.

After some two development, some general ERP can also form two BOM, but this is easy to cause problems.

The special software produced by the production instructions automatically generates BOM system. It can conveniently specify the amount of corresponding parts according to different parts, different materials, different sizes and different colors, and automatically calculate the average dosage. It can cooperate closely with MRP operation for different needs.

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