What should the IT planning of garment enterprises do?

The emphases and difficulties of informatization construction of garment enterprises First of all, from a technical point of view, garment enterprises have different needs for informatization solutions because of their industry particularity. Whether these requirements can be met is the key factor to judge whether an information system is suitable for clothing enterprises. Therefore, special attention should be paid to the choice of information system: 1. Multi-dimensional table display: the products in the clothing industry have many attributes, the most typical of which are size and color. It is required to be two-dimensional when entering documents and printing reports. Because the mainstream information systems are based on relational databases, this demand for two-dimensional display is beyond the range that the functional modules of standard information systems can meet, which also leads to obstacles when system modules that are generally suitable for other manufacturing industries are transformed into application solutions for clothing industry. Therefore, for the solution of the clothing industry, it is necessary to adjust the infrastructure according to the characteristics of the clothing industry and formulate application modules and industry solutions. 2. Material coding: Raw materials in the clothing industry also have multiple attributes, including materials, colors, specifications, etc. However, the same raw materials, due to different purchase batches, often have problems such as color difference. If these attributes are not defined in the system, material management will be chaotic and inventory will be unclear. Therefore, it is the key to standardize the classification and coding management of materials, and the system needs to provide functions such as color card management and automatic code generation. 3. Matching number management: Most footwear products have this requirement, that is, they are mixed in a box according to different size groups. In sales orders, finished goods inventory and delivery, it is necessary to take the matching code as the unit, but in the production process, it needs to be converted into an even number with a single size. Therefore, the system needs to be able to support the conversion between matching codes and single codes, as well as the unpacking management function that can be split into single codes according to boxes or combined into boxes according to matching codes. 4.BOM (bill of materials) processing: the product life cycle of clothing enterprises is short and needs to be updated constantly. Every popular season, hundreds of styles will be launched, and the corresponding product structure and materials of the same model will be different because of their different colors and sizes. If the BOM is generated according to each SKU (model color code) of the general ERP system, the maintenance workload of the BOM will be huge, so the system is required to provide the function of generating BOM in batches according to the style. 5. Order processing: the connection between production and sales is a headache for most manufacturing enterprises, and clothing enterprises are also facing the conversion between sales orders and production orders. Clothing enterprises often adopt the mode of order meeting sales. For this centralized ordering mode, the system is required to automatically summarize orders and decompose large sales orders into production orders that meet production requirements. 6. Performance problem: Due to the huge number of SKUs in clothing enterprises, especially in distribution/retail systems, with the increase of retail terminals, G data is generated every day, which puts high demands on the response performance of the system. Therefore, when selecting a system, it is necessary to judge whether the system architecture and the selected database can support the corresponding data volume. Secondly, it is necessary to solve the problem of collecting retail terminal data of clothing enterprises from the management aspect. For clothing enterprises, the collection and analysis of terminal data is the baton of product planning, production planning, logistics and marketing policies. Without mastering the information of retail terminals, the business decisions of enterprises cannot be targeted. The terminal of clothing enterprises often adopts the form of agency or joining. How to ensure that downstream partners can enjoy the sales data in real time is a problem to be solved from the management mechanism before the implementation of the distribution/retail system, such as establishing a mutually beneficial cooperation model, that is, the terminal partners provide retail data, and the clothing enterprises provide sales guidance to the terminals according to the comprehensive analysis results. Finally, it is the lack of informatization talents that makes the informatization construction of many garment enterprises difficult. Because the clothing industry is a labor-intensive industry. At the same time, informatization started late as a whole, systematic management talents who are familiar with the business model of clothing industry and master information technology are scarce, and CIO introduced from outside often has the problem of acclimatization. This is in great contradiction with the strong demand of garment enterprises for information talents. On the one hand, garment enterprises should pay more attention to and cultivate compound talents who know both information technology and enterprise management, and should discover and cultivate talents from themselves; On the other hand, external consultation can be introduced to improve the management level and application level of informatization projects through the study of industry best practices and the transfer of knowledge and experience of consultants. At the same time, IT outsourcing can also consider making up for the shortage of enterprise information resources. Informatization construction is not achieved overnight, and garment enterprises need to master its construction laws in the process of informatization.