The demand increase evidently
Depending on it s scale, benefit and quantity ,textile industry is the big market for information application; our textile industry s important status in international market and enterprise s urgent wish to improve core competition capacity lead to the distinct increase of investment in information. There is an obvious trend after further analysis of information demand: enterprise s demand on information increase distinctly ,even some industry weak in information application (such as apparel, home textile),enterprise(private enterprise) , area(west area) have made feasibility analysis, layout, application research since textile industry shake off deficit ,especially China enter into WTO in November,2001. Of course government and industry organization play their role in promoting information, but the sober judgment about the development trend-international competition be fierce more and more after enterprise entering into WTO is the leading actor.
Recent investigation show that textile enterprise s application demand can be classified in technique field: management system highest 83%; electronic business increase to 24%; CAD 29%; auto-control 12%; auto-supervise 10%. All this show enterprise s attention to information management and the optimism for electronic business prospect.
In different industry, the item distribution is very balanced while the one of cotton & textile, chemical fiber, textile machinery is very centralized ,which indicate that enterprise set objection definitely due to considering their own demanding and technique development. About area distribution, this industry centralize in development littoral such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang,Hebei, Hubei as well as some traditional textile industry area including Shandong, Henan, Hebei, Lubei etc. Some big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai have few items due to industry structure adjustment. Meanwhile, Midwest except Xingjiang hang behind comparatively.
Five aspects about Application demand
1. Product design information
The investigation result show that 29% enterprise mainly including fashion, knitting, dye and textile machine hope to continue to apply CAD , which show that enterprise have various demand and enthusiasm.
Among the enterprise with CAD requirement, sorts of one with different scale distribute evenly. National-owned enterprise including some textile machinery enterprise will keep ahead due to it s excellent application basement and advantage in personal, technique. The more important is that fashion, print and textile CAD can be applied in many miniature villages enterprise and private enterprise, even some individual dealer. Therefore, CAD application will develop gradually and have a optimistic prospect within two-three years.
2. Information Management
During these two years especially after China entering into WTO, inland textile enterprise s requirement in information management increase more notably, reaching 83%. The wide demand range spread all industry including the enterprise of cotton, wool, chemical fiber and the main middle-big enterprise. The application involve production information test system and management information system which is most important including MIS,MRPII,ERP etc and cover management department of all enterprise, manufacture workshop , realize general management and information share . With the continual development of technique and ideal, the information application develop into ERP software.
3. The automation of manufacture process
To ensure high-quality , low consumption, simple operation and high auto-manufacture level,the chemical-fiber and dye enterprise realize auto-examination and auto-control by applying auto-control technique which is demanded stably due to its obvious and direct economy benefit.
4. Digital producing equipment
Embody in the mix of machine and electricity including new equipment research and old equipment alteration. Adopting updated manufacture technique to improve the ability to respond to market decide product quality, consignment period and cost.
5. Network cooperation between enterprise
Communication between several enterprises several years ago is embodied in website construction, enterprise propagandizing, product information distribution. These years, more and more textile & fashion enterprise facing international market including 24% investigated enterprise make knowledge of the importance of electronic business. The information communication being in original process have big potential demand.
In the development areas such as Zhejiang, Jiangsu, some sensitive enterprise start to pay attention to e-commerce process when they enter on electronic business. Business cooperators , enterprise and customers working together through network have the demand on SCM,CRM gradually , build and perfect the flow between inside and outside of enterprise, cooperated operation and finance operation flow. The market research indicate that there will more demand on SCM in 2005.
