Children'S Shoes ERP System Ushering In New Challenges

As long as the computer is turned on, sales, inventory, funds and other data are clear at all.

Where to replenish the goods, where to pick up the goods, what kind of goods are hot, what kind of goods are unsalable, where the peak of performance is, and where the performance is low.

For many business owners, this is the ideal state after the successful implementation of the ERP system.

However, this is an adult.

Enterprises are already mature systems, but let a lot of

Enterprises are hard pressed.

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The system is a complex project, and the retail terminal operation system is only the first step of front-end control, but at present, it is really not the right time for children's shoes enterprises. "

A few days ago, the boss of a children's shoe company sighed that he had just signed a contract with a software company to prepare the introduction of ERP system. He wanted to lay a running ERP system at the national retail terminal. However, because of the imperfection of the outlets, he could not carry out the plan. He simply gave up the push plan.

According to the insiders, ERP system is only a tool to assist enterprise information standardization management. If you want to really do well in internal work, children's shoes enterprises should not only grasp the retail terminal operation team, build up the supply chain of upstream and downstream industries, and gradually enter the ERP system on the basis of practicing internal strength, so that standardized management of enterprises and brand standardized operation will be more "icing on the cake".

We should not just stare at the retail management system.

ERP, the enterprise resource planning, is an enterprise management concept put forward by Gartner, a famous American management consulting company in 1990.

It integrates the logistics, the flow of people, the flow of funds and the information flow to manage the enterprises in order to maximize the utilization of the existing resources of enterprises and maximize the economic benefits of enterprises.

In every business owner's mind, by successfully implementing the ERP system, we can build an enterprise information platform and promote the standardized development of the market and brand.

In the famous children's shoes company, the ERP system is the important strategic objective of the company this year.

Liu Pengrong, director of the company's operation director, told reporters that the ERP system is actually an information-based solution. It involves all aspects of the company, from production control, logistics delivery to inventory management, financial control, and even how a worker's work hour wages are quantified in the framework of human resources, and so on. All of them are controlled by visual data and scientific statistical methods. It is not too much to describe every link in the ERP system by "pulling the trigger and moving the whole body".

However, the ideal state of this omni-directional system in the heart of the business owners often appears in the single retail management system.

"To build a relatively mature information management system for retail management, the other aspects of enterprise internal combing can not be underestimated.

This is also the main reason for the success of large software failures.

Often spend money has become a display, some of them only stay inside the enterprise, do simple Invoicing, lose the original meaning.

Liu Pengrong told reporters.

Wang Xiaojun, the industry insider, pointed out directly that the application of a ERP system usually costs a lot of money, but it costs less than hundreds of thousands or more. This is one of the reasons why many enterprises choose small scale applications, and the most important thing is the terminal retail management system.

Because corporate headquarters would like to know which paragraph has a supplement, which customers reflect less well and so on.

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Do a good job of network construction and promote ERP in a timely manner

Children's shoes enterprises want to use objective data real-time analysis to achieve the goal of planned production, inventory management and product optimal combination. The terminal retail management system is only an auxiliary tool for children's shoes enterprises to adjust sales internal control and control the market system, rather than a once and for all project, not to mention the success of terminal retail system depends on the data collection of each node.

In other words, with such data support, there will be objective basis for judging.

All of these data come from the brand retail terminal network. Every retail terminal network is the data acquisition point of the retail terminal management system. But now the retail outlets of children's shoes enterprises are in a mess, so it is difficult to extend the ERP retail management system to agents at all levels.

"When I was in a children's shoes business, I thought about putting the ERP in the agent level. The software has already been bought, but then I pulled it off. It seems to be on the shelf too. I want to be a ERP terminal retail management system. At least I must have a monopoly system!" Wang Xiaojun felt very much.

Nowadays, children's shoes enterprises are good at brand communication and channel operation. However, the operation and control of retail terminals are generally lacking.

In addition to several relatively mature brands such as ABC and POOVE, for a large part of shoe companies, they are not actually involved in the operation of the retail terminal. They are basically completed by agents and franchisees.

This means that the terminal retail management system has broken down between the head office and branch offices.

Many people in the industry are skeptical about the terminal retail management system that has lost their antennae and can achieve the desired effect.

Of course, after basically having the basic conditions of the ERP system on-line, enterprises should integrate the terminal retail management system into the ERP system of the enterprise to comprehensively measure and plan, and prepare for a protracted war.

Ma Defeng, a special observer for children's shoes industry, believes that there may be more problems in the early days of the on-line system.

But even trivial and minor problems require the software implementers and enterprises to communicate and solve them in a timely manner.

Especially in the whole process of implementation, the leadership should not blindly blame the software for how it is bad. Instead, it should find the crux of the problem through investigation and analysis, and strive to find a balance between the company's own business system and software function.