Digitally Driven: Management Innovation Makes Textile Enterprises Stronger

Enterprise management is the "university question" that the textile industry has always attached importance to. What are the new features and experiences of textile enterprise management today? How does the enterprise improve its comprehensive competitiveness and anti risk ability and enhance its development resilience through innovative management mode? At the 11th National Textile Enterprise Management Innovation Achievements and Chief Creators of Management Innovation Achievements Final Review Meeting held recently in Tai'an, Shandong Province, 13 finalists competed on the same stage around their respective declared management innovation achievements to compete for the first, second and chief creators of the 11th National Textile Industry Management Innovation Achievements. "Closely combining management innovation with enterprise development strategy and paying more attention to the effectiveness of management practice have become the prominent features of management innovation in textile enterprises," said Xia Lingmin, secretary-general of China Textile Industry Federation and president of China Textile Industry Enterprise Management Association (hereinafter referred to as "China Textile Enterprise Association").

Abundant achievements in management innovation

"Since the registration was launched in March this year, the examination and approval of the 11th National Textile Enterprise Management Innovation Achievements and the main creators of management innovation achievements has received the attention and support of the whole industry. Through the recommendation of professional associations and local associations and the independent application of enterprises, a number of management innovation achievements with distinctive themes and novel models have been shortlisted." Xie Qing, executive vice president of the China Textile Enterprise Association, introduced.

Xie Qing said that the management innovation achievements shortlisted for this final review have the following characteristics: First, strengthen strategic thinking. The 13 achievements shortlisted in the final review cover cotton textile, chemical fiber, clothing, home textile, industrial textiles, textile machinery and other industries. Based on the new development stage, the enterprise has achieved good results in improving the competitiveness of the enterprise value chain, playing a pioneering and exemplary role, leading the high-quality development of the industry and other aspects. Second, focus on lean management. The achievements of this enterprise management innovation involve not only systematic whole process management, supply chain management, cultural management, but also partial management for key links. The management innovation achievements have high promotion and application value. Third, deepen data application. In this final review, there were 7 management innovation achievements with the theme of digital and intelligent application, and 2 management innovation achievements with digital and intelligent application. This reflects the further improvement of the integration level of the textile industry, and the further enhancement of the engine function of the digital economy. Fourth, pay attention to demand orientation. A total of 8 management innovation achievements highlighted the importance and urgency of strengthening customer service and marketing and meeting personalized needs, and 5 achievements related to talent construction and green development. Focusing on market changes and demand changes, the enterprise has carried out targeted management innovation, which has effectively improved the rapid response ability and market competitiveness of the enterprise.

The approval and promotion of innovative achievements in textile management has been carried out for 10 times since 2011, and 114 outstanding achievements have been launched, which has made important contributions to promoting the management level of textile enterprises.

"The main purpose of organizing the national textile management innovation achievements approval and promotion work is to promote the management level, management efficiency and competitiveness of the entire textile industry. In the past 12 years, the improvement of the management level of the entire textile industry is directly related to technological progress." Xia Lingmin said, The achievements of this management innovation have several prominent features: first, the management innovation work is closely combined with the enterprise development strategy. Enterprises continue to promote management innovation in technological progress and market reform; Second, achievements focus on theoretical innovation, and pay more attention to the effectiveness of management practice. The operation situation, operation effect and production efficiency of the enterprises participating in the evaluation are reflected through figures, and the results are obvious; Third, the operation mode and business model of the enterprise are constantly changing in the process of management improvement. Leading backbone enterprises promote green development strategically, step by step and purposefully in terms of product development, technology application, management innovation, etc., practice social responsibility, focus on the "double carbon" goal to formulate enterprise development strategies, and fully reflect the overall competitiveness of the industry.

Digital driven "new management"

At present, the textile industry is at a critical stage of transformation and upgrading. The deep integration and development of industrial Internet big data management technology and the textile industry has become a new advantage of innovation leading development.

Lei Shilei, executive vice general manager of Fujian New Huayuan Science and Technology Group Co., Ltd., introduced that under the support of big data technology, the innovation work of spinning production lean management of New Huayuan Group has achieved remarkable results. Production management no longer relies on manual subjective judgment, and management decisions are based on more comprehensive and objective big data decisions. Lihua Zhifang intelligent spinning workshop realizes "multi variety, small batch" production, significantly saves production costs and reduces carbon dioxide emissions.

Qingdao Jifa Group Co., Ltd. has complied with the development trend of market changes, built a dedicated Internet platform for the textile and clothing industry, and raised the entire textile and clothing supply chain system to a new height. Bi Yufei, the project manager of the company, said that the agile platform management innovation based on the industrial Internet is to establish the group's "one platform, three ecosystems" management system with the supply chain platform management as the core to achieve efficient and unified supply chain management.

With the orderly advancement of digital and intelligent transformation of home textile, the management innovation model of Shandong Weiqiao Jiajia Home Textile Co., Ltd. is also being followed up in a timely manner. Song Haiying, the general manager of the company, said that in 2020, Jiajia Home Textile will invest 20 million yuan in digital and intelligent upgrading. In 2021, the construction of intelligent digital projects will be completed, and 7 hanging assembly lines and automatic packaging warehousing integrated intelligent equipment will be introduced, which will greatly enhance the overall competitiveness of the enterprise.

"The innovation of clothing enterprise management mode based on digital intelligence is the result of Wingaid Fashion's efforts to promote the transformation and upgrading of digital intelligence in the whole process of the enterprise and realize the innovation and reform of management in the face of industry status, changes in consumer demand, diversified channels and low efficiency of commodity operation, combined with the development of information technology." said Qiu Xiaosheng, head of the Enterprise Management Department of Wingaid Fashion Holdings Co., Ltd, The clothing industry has low threshold, weak technology and serious homogeneous competition. Customized and intelligent production is an important path for the transformation and development of the clothing industry.

According to the introduction of Zhou Yejun, the chairman of Wuxi Yimian Textile Group Co., Ltd., with the implementation of the all-round digital intelligence enabling the industrialization management project of ultra-high count yarn, the company has built two modern high-quality yarn production lines with high intelligence, sophisticated equipment, clean and orderly. The output and sales of ultra-high count yarn have increased year by year, realizing the goal of industrialization and scale of ultra-high count yarn.

"Ten years ago, Jilin Chemical Fiber Co., Ltd. had a production capacity of 20000 tons and 4500 employees. After digital construction and the introduction of intelligent equipment in recent years, it now has a production capacity of 80000 tons of filament, 120000 tons of staple fiber and 5560 employees, realizing greater production with the least personnel costs," said Yu Shujuan, senior director of Jilin Chemical Fiber Co., Ltd, Focusing on the key tasks of the textile industry during the "14th Five Year Plan" period, the company has used digital information technologies such as "big data" and "cloud computing" to build a smart chemical fiber management platform, upgrade digital management, and achieve two advantageous results of efficient personnel management and green product production.

As the national leading enterprise of engineering composite materials, Shandong Lute New Materials Co., Ltd. actively explores a new intelligent manufacturing mode of high-performance fiber composite materials for engineering that is suitable for China. Liang Xunmei, the chairman of the company, said that the new Lude intelligent manufacturing model has been applied since 2018, breaking through the short board equipment of fiber composite material production, breaking international monopoly and realizing equipment localization; Intelligent fiber composite materials are produced to realize intelligent products; Innovate the production and manufacturing mode of geosynthetics industry, promote industrial production and business model innovation, and lead the transformation and upgrading of the industry.

Gather power, innovate and strengthen "physique"

How can textile enterprises take advantage of management innovation to make "physique" stronger? Aiming at market changes and demand changes, we will "gather power" towards management innovation and strive to grow into a leading enterprise in the industry, which will become the consensus of the participating enterprises.

Niu Jiajia, director of the administrative office of Yantai Mingyuan Creative Life Technology Co., Ltd., believes that introducing excellent traditional culture into enterprise management practice for integration and innovation can not only maintain the uniqueness and charm of the enterprise, but also enhance the competitiveness of the enterprise to adapt to the development of the times, contribute wisdom and solutions to improve the global competitiveness of the enterprise, and maintain its own advantages and status.

"In response to the demand for mass customization in the clothing industry, Dishang Group will create a vertical supply chain management innovation based on personalized clothing customization from the beginning of 2020." Zhang Shizhe, executive vice general manager of Dishang Group Co., Ltd., said that Dishang Group has built a common basic resource pool of the industry by implementing the vertical supply chain management innovation based on personalized clothing customization, The efficiency of product supply and demand has been significantly improved, the product production and design cycle has been shortened by 40%, the operating cost has been reduced by about 30%, the production efficiency has been improved by about 30%, the inventory turnover rate has been reduced by 25%, and the product traceability rate has reached 98%.

Strengthening the construction of a team of highly skilled talents is of great significance to enhancing core competitiveness and scientific and technological innovation ability. Zhu Yunqing, vice secretary of the Party Committee and chairman of the trade union of Nanjing Fiberglass Research and Design Institute Co., Ltd., said that Nanjing Fiberglass Institute has systematically built a four in one skilled personnel management system of "cultivation, competition and use" through specific measures such as building a national innovation platform, identifying and assessing scarce skilled personnel, arranging integration of production and education, and establishing an innovation consortium. Nanjing Fiberglass Institute has continuously improved its technological strength, led the transformation and upgrading with scientific and technological innovation, achieved a large number of breakthrough scientific and technological achievements, and has always been leading in the fierce market competition and technological competition.

"In recent years, global fiber consumption is in a low growth cycle, and Jilin Chemical Fiber Group Co., Ltd.'s four major fiber plates are growing at a counter cyclical high speed. It is urgent to achieve innovation in marketing concepts, marketing models and marketing systems." Sun He, director of the company's sales center, said that products are the foundation, services are value-added, and social responsibility is the corporate mission. Jilin Chemical Fiber has established a modern marketing system with products, services and social responsibilities as the pillars. The market forces generated by the interaction of the three factors have continuously improved the comprehensive competitiveness of Jilin Chemical Fiber for its high-quality sustainable development.

"In today's highly competitive market environment, textile enterprises are facing many challenges and opportunities. In order to maintain competitiveness and achieve sustainable development, textile enterprises need to constantly innovate and improve management level, and improving financial management level is a necessary measure to lead enterprises to comprehensively innovate management." Liu Yan, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Lianyungang Yingyou Textile Machinery Group Co., Ltd., believes that, In the current era of advanced science and technology, only by creating a new enterprise financial management model can enterprises be truly guided to the road to success.

"Although Changling Textile Electronics has become a leading enterprise in the field of manufacturing special textile instruments, it must make breakthroughs in collaborative innovation to achieve long-term development in the field of manufacturing special textile instruments and maintain competitive advantages." Lu Zhihua, deputy general manager of Shaanxi Changling Textile Electromechanical Technology Co., Ltd., said that on the one hand, Changling Textile Electronics aims at the development direction of the industry and accurately positions itself, To be a "quality control expert of the whole industry chain" in the textile field; On the other hand, the existing talents and scientific research platform resources of the enterprise should be effectively revitalized, the layout should be optimized, the layout of the innovation system should be focused, the efficient operation of the enterprise should be realized, and a new benchmark for the transformation and development of the textile industry should be created.