“2019 is about to become a thing of the past. It is an unforgettable year for all garment people. The international situation is changing, domestic new policies are frequently coming out, workers are difficult to recruit, orders are deserted, and garment people are overwhelmed.”
The end of the era of horse racing also means “grabbing people” and “grabbing people” The end of the turf era.
It only took China 40 years to complete the journey that took the West 300 years to complete. Now we are once again standing at the fork in history and looking forward. This time we have greater responsibilities. Because with every step we take, the world follows. This not only requires the country to assume greater historical responsibilities, but also requires each of us Chinese to enlarge our own pattern and vision. We must not just stay in the traditional order, feel depressed and dispirited, and look like people with hammers in our hands. Everything is a nail, and for pessimists, everything is pessimistic. The same is true for businesses.
For service companies, as the fierce market competition environment continues to change, if companies want to survive and develop, they must make the products they produce It can meet market demand and is of high quality and low price. How to produce high-quality, low-price and competitive products despite the general trend of reform? It is most critical to use scientific methods to reduce production costs as much as possible.
To reduce costs, service companies must first change their mindset
Many service companies When it comes to cost, they think it is a matter for the finance department or cost accountant, and many corporate employees also think, “I am not the boss, and cost has nothing to do with me”; “Things in the company (factory) should not be used in vain”; “Thrifty” If costs are reduced, what benefits will I get?”…
In fact, reducing corporate costs requires everyone’s participation. First of all, as the decision-making level of the enterprise, it is necessary to have the concept of investment, which is the basic condition that determines and affects the formation of enterprise costs; secondly, the engineering personnel and management personnel of the enterprise, they affect the consumption level of product design and production costs; thirdly, Employees in the company’s supply and sales departments, their business activities affect the purchase cost of materials and product sales expenses. Therefore, the cost is closely related to everyone.
Enterprises must pay social security for their employees, and provide training to every employee, instill a sense of conservation, and reduce personnel waste through ideological changes, system constraints, etc. In order to achieve the result of reducing enterprise production costs, it is also what most service companies urgently need to do.
Learn from mature companies to improve production efficiency and reduce costs
In any case, it is inevitable that high efficiency defeats low efficiency. Many large leading companies improve efficiency and reduce corporate management costs by building a system that standardizes products and processes. “
Huawei’s Ren Zhengfei has also said many times that we must pay attention to the system: people in the company will flow and change, but the processes and standards will remain in Huawei. There must be a set of mechanisms. No matter who is managing the company, this mechanism does not change depending on the person. But the process itself is dead, and the people who use it are alive, which requires people to understand the process. And those who know more about the process are managers, only They, not the grassroots staff, know why the process is set up in this way.
As managers, we need to understand the composition of the system and the formulation of standards, so that we can create a system that suits us according to local conditions. The enterprise’s system can achieve the results of reducing costs and improving production efficiency.
Improve the employment structure and make good use of part-time jobs, outsourcing, etc. Reduce costs
In order to improve the labor structure, small and medium-sized service companies must learn from mature companies. For example, Decathlon has a mature labor structure and relatively low labor costs, which is why it is in the retail industry. One of the reasons why the industry continues to open stores despite the trend of physical store closures.
Most Decathlon stores are between 1,000 and 4,000 square meters. The number of full-time employees, including management, is only a dozen. Security and cleaning are outsourced and they are not Decathlon employees. The number of part-time employees in the mall accounts for more than 60% of the total employees.
One of our customers is engaged in mid-to-high-end clothing customization. His company used to have more than 70 people. Later, he discovered that it is actually cheaper to outsource many businesses. Now there are more than 10 people in the company, focusing on brand building, process research and development, Online sales and business sales are integrated with external resources and outsourced. The company’s labor costs have been greatly reduced today.
Intelligent weaving has become the core competitiveness of future clothing companies
Intelligence is now sweeping across all walks of life around the world. The clothing industry has a surplus of assembly line production capacity, and intelligent flexible production capacity is extremely scarce . Under this circumstance, the reform of the traditional clothing production and supply chain is imminent, and intelligent manufacturing and flexible production will become the core competitiveness of the clothing manufacturing industry!
The country has already adopted intelligent manufacturing is on the agenda. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology stated that smart manufacturing is the transformation of the manufacturing industry.The main direction of development. In the past few years, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has vigorously promoted the automation, digitalization and intelligent transformation of the manufacturing industry, focusing on intelligent manufacturing. It has successively formulated the “Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering Implementation Guide” and “Intelligent Manufacturing Standard System Construction Guide”, and carried out pilot demonstrations of intelligent manufacturing projects. With the promotion of new models of intelligent manufacturing and special projects on standard platforms, intelligent manufacturing in the textile and apparel industry has received widespread attention and positive response from the industry. Forward-looking service companies have initially formed a number of digital workshops and intelligent production lines.
Those as powerful as Foxconn have already embarked on the road to intelligent transformation
Foxconn is well known to the public for its OEM business, but it would be naive to think of Foxconn only as an OEM. Today, Foxconn has long been a technology giant integrating panel business, PC business, and industrial Internet. Last year, Foxconn’s annual sales Its revenue reached 1 trillion yuan, which is more than Huawei, Alibaba, and Tencent combined, making it a low-key technology giant in China.
Those as powerful as Foxconn have already embarked on the road to intelligent transformation. For our small and medium-sized service companies, rejecting black technology is tantamount to directly ruining the fate of the company in the face of intelligence. . </p
