The apparel industry attaches great importance to individualization, seasonality, volatile markets, diverse products, cross-regional, and involves multiple business lines such as manufacturing and channel sales. This determines the complexity of management and requires rapid response to the rapidly changing market:
- How to open up the chain of procurement, production, and sales to quickly adapt to the market?
- How to carry out the whole process, comprehensive and efficient management of channels and stores?
- How to coordinate financial and business operations to improve corporate operational efficiency?
Highlights of the plan: get through the internal and external management platform of the whole process
Covers the entire process and aspects of product development, material procurement, sales management, store management, brand management, financial management, and personnel management, and comprehensively controls resources and data in the apparel industry from production to sales, from personnel to products. Get through the information barriers between various departments, positions, various sets of business software, and the internal and external organizations.
(Architecture of Collaborative Office Solutions in the Clothing Industry)
① Establish a unified portal to aggregate information in each portal:
- Store management portal: It can understand the operation status of each store in time, display the status of the store on the portal, and report the store operation status in real time.
- Unified data window: sales, purchases, orders, finance, personnel, and comprehensive reports are reported and displayed one by one.
(Featured Portal)
- Real-time product display window: Industry information is captured in real time and synchronized to the portal.
②Comprehensive integration of various business systems, internal and external collaboration to improve efficiency:
Based on the OA system, through integration with SAP, warehousing system, retail operation system, logistics system, CRM, marketing management system, e-commerce management system, HR system, etc., the OA system can single sign-on to achieve interaction with other systems, Relevant capabilities to build a unified business management platform.
Through the integration with enterprise WeChat, external users such as suppliers, distributors, channel providers, and customers are added to the internal collaboration of apparel companies, and they are constantly connected, quickly signing contracts, independent inquiries, and comprehensively eliminating communication barriers.
Integrated office solutions for the apparel industry
1. Product design, R&D management
Standardized project management:
In order to promote the standardized management of the entire process of product development and design, through the establishment of a complete project management system, all departments can communicate on a platform, and the management can quickly obtain the project progress and promote the efficient progress of the project.
Initiate a new project through the process, fill in basic information such as the project and plan, and automatically enter the project ledger after approval, and the project progress can be clearly checked.
(Project implementation)
Standardized storage of product information, sample management and sample production standardization, to achieve the standardization of the entire R&D system.
Clothing design process:
- Sample clothing management: Combining the characteristics of the clothing industry, we have established procedures for clothing companies such as sample design application, trial production application, and appraisal application.
- Sample trial production application process: In order to allow the business department and the technical department to quickly share information and resources, communication can be carried out through the process: the business department will issue a new product release form based on market research, receive it by the technical department, execute the release, and pass project management The module performs task tracking.
(Production flow chart)
Data management of samples can be realized, and the product information, pictures, process sheets, main and auxiliary material unit consumption tables, procedures, and labor costs of all samples are stored uniformly, which is conducive to improving the level of technical management.
Through unified data storage, sample data can be quickly searched. If you want to query a certain sample data of a certain customer, you can obtain all rounds of proofing data related to this sample.
(Process initiated)
The system provides a variety of statistical reports for proofing, and provides customers with proofing data statistics for each season.
2. Clothing fabric procurement management
In apparel companies, orders are sent from all over the world every day, requiring close cross-regional collaboration. Through powerful process functions, it runs through the company's internal supply chain, quickly responds to order requirements, and manages fabric procurement and fabric storage.
Supplier management:
The procurement needs of apparel companies are large, and there are many suppliers that need to communicate. If emails, group chats, etc. are used, information is prone to confusion and communication efficiency is not high.
At present, Pan-WeChat has opened up corporate WeChat to provide companies with a window for internal and external collaborative procurement requirements:
Suppliers seamlessly join the enterprise procurement system, and quickly register, bid, and connect orders with the help of the enterprise's integrated application in the official account and applet.
Purchasing personnel of apparel companies release purchasing information through WeChat official accounts, quickly docking orders with suppliers, signing online contracts, tracking delivery information at any time, and making inspections and reconciliation platforms internal and external information transparent throughout the entire process, reducing the cost of each link of procurement and improving procurement efficiency .
Electronic management of the entire procurement process
3. Dealer Management
Through the process engine, portal engine, integration engine, and modeling engine, the core business systems such as ERP and SAP are connected with OA to build an integrated business management system for apparel companies.
By building a dealer portal, dealers can track and process orders online in real time, and query order information; through electronic processes, the entire process of order delivery, execution, and after-sales can be tracked.
And through the ledger function, the inventory situation and consumer feedback data are summarized, which effectively improves the management efficiency of dealers.
Fourth, store management
The expansion of stores is the core of the profitability of apparel chain companies. From market layout reporting, follow-up, site selection, shop reporting, signing/project establishment, drawing design, renovation progress, preparation for shop opening, official opening, new shop summary to reinstallation/closing, every link requires strict cost control and improvement Execution efficiency, thereby reducing risks and achieving profitability.
According to the characteristics of the clothing industry, with the help of powerful process control and integration capabilities, the process of store opening, management, and store closing is institutionalized and task-oriented to achieve process-oriented and standardized control of store management.
(Store management portal)
Shop management:
The clothing chain enterprises register the basic information of the stores through the market layout reporting process, and write them into the basic store information database.
For different task types in the management of new store openings, maintain all task details, work cycles, safety cycles, completion standards, responsible departments and other information.
The store basic information card is automatically generated after the approval of the store creation process. The information of all planned stores can be queried according to the regional dimension.
Through the portal in the OA, the management can grasp the dynamics of store opening in real time, including information on various stages of store opening, and display the progress of store opening in real time.
(Shop Management)
Mobile patrol shop:
How can clothing chain companies quickly grasp the situation of stores in different regions, improve brand image and store operation efficiency, and effectively manage store staff?
Through integration with the existing third-party store management system of clothing chain enterprises, Panwei OA has created a mobile store inspection management system that covers the entire store inspection process.
You can "create" a shop patrol plan on the mobile terminal, quickly search the page to select a store, check categories, fill in shop patrol instructions, and generate a new shop patrol plan.
During the shop inspection process, upload pictures, fill in opinions, and submit questions at any time according to the inspection items, which effectively shortens the company's inspection cycle and effectively improves the efficiency of enterprise management.
(Mobile patrol shop)
Store data report:
Realize the integration with the distribution system, collect data from the distribution system, conduct circulation approval in the OA, and provide feedback on the sales of franchise stores.
Five, fast customer acquisition
Now, both online salespersons and offline store managers can embed their WeChat QR codes into the company’s " WeChat Official Account " , " Official Website ", or " Offline Event Display Boards, Advertising Brochures ", etc. Class channels.
Customers can use WeChat scan to establish contact with the sales service staff’s corporate WeChat account, communicate at any time, share the latest news, solve after-sales problems, and improve sales service efficiency.
(Documents, pictures, WeChat articles, news consulting)
Six, report management
Through integration with the report system, a multi-dimensional graphic report is formed, including sales data, survey data, and personnel data.
(Report management)
Unified service center, standardized internal financial management
For clothing chain companies, there are many branches and subsidiaries and they are widely distributed. Each branch company needs to set up a financial department to deal with the daily accounts of the branch finance, and the financial staff has a heavy workload.
Therefore, many companies have carried out financial transformation, promoted financial shared service centers, and centralized and standardized processing of personnel and businesses.
First, assist the company to establish the store approval matrix maintenance. By maintaining the store corresponding to the approval personnel, it is convenient for the process sheet to bring out the approval personnel information and improve the efficiency of approval automation.
(Store maintenance)
Through advance application of financial expenses, intelligent OCR recognition of invoices, intelligent calculation of occupancy budget, and financial reimbursement/payment review, vouchers are automatically generated to improve the overall reimbursement efficiency.
Realize the integration of internal and external collections. Realize the maintenance of the external beneficiary's receiving account, account opening bank, and account information, so that related processes can be automatically brought out and selected for association.
Application Value of Featured Office Platform in Pan-micro Apparel Industry
It has served many customers in the apparel industry, helping to achieve efficient store management and internally standardized management, allowing more and more apparel industry customers to experience a truly convenient and electronic office environment based on the comprehensive collaboration of resources, personnel, and information.