Analysis on Status and Problems of Informatization in Garment Enterprises

As a "factory of the world," China started the Silk Road more than 2,000 years ago and was hailed as the "garment kingdom" by the world. Today, China has more than 50,000 garment companies, with an annual output of 10 billion pieces of clothing, and a market share of about 60% of the total global apparel industry. It is the “big first country in apparel”.

However, it goes without saying that the Chinese garment manufacturing industry that survived the financial turmoil is facing a very embarrassing situation. With the increasingly fierce competition in the domestic and foreign markets, the pressure of the appreciation of the *** has constituted a major factor in the apparel industry, which accounts for a large proportion of exports. Recently, the relevant ministries and commissions led the association to conduct labor exchange-intensive pressure tests on labor-intensive industries. The results show that if *** appreciates by 3-5% in the short term, the profits of manufacturers of clothing, household appliances, automobiles, and mobile phones will decline by 30%. Around, many SMEs with low bargaining power will face losses. The pressure of labor shortages, rising raw materials, rising wages and other cost pressures will also erode the profits of this traditional manufacturing industry. At the same time, it is deeply worrying that with the expansion of the scale of garment companies, the original manual management system has become increasingly incapable of adapting to the development of the enterprise, and the management of the enterprise has been inefficient due to manual processing and transmission of a large amount of information. Troubled.

At present, China's garment industry is experiencing a painful transition from quality competition to cost competition, forcing companies to strive to improve the market's response speed and technological innovation capabilities, and thus also to promote how apparel companies innovate in management models and information applications. Improve and keep up with the pace of the era and make every effort, which will determine the success or failure of garment companies in the future.

Current Situation and Problems of Application of Information Technology in Garment Enterprises

However, it is rude to say that due to the widespread misunderstanding of information technology in domestic apparel companies, there is less investment in information technology, and there are also many bottlenecks in talents, technology, etc. Therefore, the current application rate of clothing enterprises in China is still low. In general, it can be said that "half of the flame is half seawater."

1, the proportion of investment in information less

According to the IDC survey, according to the proportion of investment in information technology and sales revenue of domestic apparel companies, 85% of the companies are less than 1%, and 10% of the companies have reached 1%-2%. 5% of the companies reached more than 2%. The investment of foreign apparel companies generally reaches more than 3% of sales revenue, leading companies even reach 5% -10%, effectively improve their international competitiveness.

2, the application is still relatively junior

In terms of the degree of information application, domestic garment enterprises are still relatively junior, mostly concentrated in the financial system, OA, and payroll accounting systems. The slightly better apparel companies also use Invoicing, CRM, and e-commerce, but they are like ERP. The utilization rate of fully integrated information software is still very low, less than 10%, automatic control systems only account for 12%, and textile-specific CAD is still less than 18%. Currently, for garment companies with dozens or hundreds of franchised stores or franchisees, most of them are difficult to formulate accurate distribution plans for their respective franchised stores and franchisees, and it is also difficult for the sales of individual franchised stores and franchisees. Accurately aggregate, predict, and analyze, thus delaying business opportunities.

3, information island phenomenon is still obvious

Some good clothing companies have not integrated their information very well, even if they have a number of different information systems. There is an “information island”, and each system module has an access bottleneck, regardless of the company’s ERP, CRM, or OA. Whether the system adopts the same enterprise product is generally difficult to integrate naturally and is difficult to integrate with the company's future development strategy. This aggravates the difficulty of IT system construction management and makes it difficult to effectively improve the management level of the company.

4, system solutions professional, subdivision is not strong

At present, ERP and CRM are more and more used in the apparel industry. However, most of the solution providers currently hold high the banner of “generalization”. They rarely go to the grassroots to experience the actual needs of apparel companies. There is no time to seriously analyze their strong differences. Sex, attempting to “eat the world freshly”, the product is given the function and value of “size-take-all, omnipotent”, trying to solve the garment industry in ERP, CRM with a software, a technical architecture, and an idea. The difficult conditions and the provision of all the desired functions result in "professional but not deep, broad, and not deep," and it is difficult to make the best use of it, or even to "miss the slightest thing and lose it," and lay the hidden dangers for promotion and application. For example, in multi-dimensional table display, material coding, BOM processing, order processing, etc., garment companies still have subdivided, personalized and characteristic demands, but now many developers still like the beverage industry, machinery and electronics industry. Such ideas and programs used in the garment industry are hard to come by. In addition, the ERP and CRM software developed by some developers for large-scale garment enterprises were sold to SMEs after the so-called “enrichment”, and they found that they did not work for SMEs. There are so many things like this.