If fashion companies want to stand out from the fierce competition, they must find ways to produce high-quality, low-cost products in the shortest possible time and quickly launch them to the market. For this reason, various digital and intelligent software have suddenly sprung up in the market. However, about 90% of fashion companies do not even have the most basic automated MRP (Material Requirement Planning) running, and talking about digital transformation under such conditions is simply empty talk.
For the manufacturing industry, MRP is the core function and the central nerve of enterprise operation. After receiving the order, the enterprise needs MRP to direct procurement and production, and MRP needs to run the material shortage list and guide the procurement department to purchase materials. MRP is the core system of material control of manufacturing enterprises, and it can be said that manufacturing enterprises cannot do without MRP if they want to produce and run efficiently. MRP can help improve every detail of enterprise production and operation, including finance, production, procurement, inventory, sales management, cost control, etc., and is also the most powerful tool to balance the contradiction between enterprise demand and supply.
Fashion companies don't pay attention to it, and they don't use MRP well
MRP plays an important role in the analysis of material requirements, but its application in the fashion industry has always been criticized. MRP material requirements analysis is rarely used by companies that is better or more accurate. Some enterprises have spent a lot of money to implement the MRP of internationally renowned ERP software, and finally abandoned it, and still use manual Excel input and calculation materials.
There are also many companies that have implemented MRP, but they only do simple calculations based on the BOM sheet, which seems to be very busy with the production line, but from the perspective of organizational efficiency, the production efficiency of the enterprise is not high. If the materials are not prepared in advance, they often cannot follow the plan, and the frequent shutdown of materials, coupled with the fact that the same order cannot be integrated, and the production efficiency is not high, resulting in the failure of customer orders to be delivered on time. At the same time, the automatic calculation of MRP requires accurate BOM and inventory quantity, but many enterprises have incomplete and low accuracy of these data, which is also a very important reason why MRP is difficult to land.
Digitalization of material requirements management and improved efficiency
In order to cope with the complex and changeable garment enterprises and the high requirements for material demand management, the industry MRP program has been formulated based on the principle of simplifying the process and improving efficiency. This solution can accurately formulate production and procurement plans, avoid excess inventory and inventory shortages, improve business effectiveness, improve inventory turnover, and minimize costs and capital occupation.
Realize MRP flexible merging and splitting requirements. The customized SAP MRP solution adopts a subdivision strategy for orders and pre-production, and configures multiple information segments according to different customers, styles and shipping countries, etc., and carries out tracking and management in different dimensions, so that it is convenient to accurately match demand and supply when making demand planning. In addition, while we have refined order management, we can merge scattered orders according to rules, integrate different orders of the same customer, and after the merger, we can centralize procurement and delivery, centralized production, and improve production and procurement efficiency.
Refined pre-investment management of materials, truly fast reversal. Companies want to seize the opportunity to produce and bring to market as quickly as possible. Our MRP program can carry out pre-order demand management according to customer orders and sales**, accurately judge independent needs, prepare blanks in advance, ensure pre-order supply, and solve abnormal problems before production, so that there will be no frequent "firefighting" in the production process. This can not only meet the actual sales demand in the future, but also greatly improve the production efficiency and strengthen the ability to achieve quick reversal.
3.MRP accelerates production and is more suitable for today's fast fashion. The SAP MRP solution perfectly solves the problem of demand planning management for apparel enterprises. In addition to the standard function of MRP, it also meets the planning needs of garment enterprises with large volume, many varieties and fast changes, accurately realizes the balance between demand and supply, and makes rapid responses, which is the speed and efficiency pursued by garment enterprises.
MRP reduces costs and increases efficiency, and improves competitiveness
The customized MRP solution realizes the information linkage and orderly flow of sales, procurement, production and finance through accurate docking of production demand planning, real-time data aggregation and seamless connection of production processes, and improves the inventory turnover rate. At the same time of flexible business, the data generated is synchronized in a standardized, accurate and consistent manner, so as to achieve a balance between purchase, sale and inventory, so that the production and operation efficiency can reach the maximum, so as to maximize the benefits to the enterprise.
Through the whole process of integrated management system, the dependence on people is reduced, the barriers of communication and collaboration between various departments, regions and systems are broken, and the core competitiveness of foundry enterprises is helped to respond quickly, promote business development faster, and improve the core competitiveness of enterprises, which is the core value of customization plus MRP.