2010/08/19

Textile Industry & Information Technology

Today, information technology (IT) plays an important role in the textile industry. Each production unit employs four Ms that is, men, equipment, machines and money, of course. To achieve this organizational success, managers need to focus on the synchronization of all these factors and the development of synergies within and outside the organization.

With increased competition, the companies IT support to their Supply Chain Management (SCM) to improve and use it as a competitive advantage. In short, many textile companies are using the power of technology add value to their business.

Supply Chain Management includes: Purchasing, recruitment, conversion and all logistics activities. It will increase the transaction speed by exchanging data in real time, reduce inventory and increase revenue by customer needs more effectively.

Why textile industry need IT support?

Lack of information on supply and demand issues

Most of the decisions a manager makes is related to supply and demand issues. But unfortunately, only a few can obtain, as a result of decisions taken a risk and uncertainty. Excess inventory is one of the most common problems faced by managers is also in the long cycle times, obsolete stocks resist, poor sales, low prices, and reduced visibility order leads, and ultimately customer dissatisfaction.

long lead time

In a traditional textile industry, the acquisition process is a much longer time. Retailers must demand forecasts and trends in consumption at a much earlier stage. The lack of clarity about the future can be the result of the stock advanced to delay or store.

Supply Chain capabilities

Reached by request, global apparel and textiles are facing barriers of inefficiency in the implementation of the various processes from concept, design samples involved are approved, production, shipment to the payment. The total duration may extend for one year or longer. If one calculates that production is in fact only ten to twenty percent of the total time. The remaining time is taken for the processing of information from one end to another.

The trajectory of the development of information technology by cutting all applications in the textile industry. The improved performance of the textile industry and tighter process control, "he added intelligence to every node of the textile supply chain.

Enter the World Trade

It is a fact that a company has a global open with plenty of opportunities and risks related to competition, changing trends, and other environmental changes. It all kind of information must be efficient and much faster to manage.

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