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 coming frequently, workers are difficult to recruit, orders are deserted, and garment people are overwhelmed. “
The end of the era of horse racing also means the end of the era of “grabbing people” and “grabbing territory.”
It only took China 40 years to complete the journey that took the West 300 years. We have completed the journey, and now we are once again standing at the fork in the road of history and looking forward. This time we have greater responsibilities, because every step we take, the world follows closely behind.
This requires not only the country Taking on greater historical responsibilities 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. For those who hold a hammer in their hands, everything looks like a nail. , Pessimistic people see everything as pessimistic. The same is true for enterprises.
For service companies, as the fierce market competition environment continues to change, companies require survival and development. It is necessary to produce products that can meet market demand and are of high quality and low price. How to produce high quality, low price and competitive products under the general trend of reform? Use scientific methods as much as possible to reduce production Cost is the most critical.
To reduce costs, service companies must first change their mindset
When it comes to costs, many service companies 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 costs have nothing to do with me”; “Things in the company (factory) are not used in vain”; “I save costs, what do I have?” benefit? ”…
In fact, the reduction of enterprise costs requires everyone’s participation.
First of all, as the decision-making level of the enterprise, we need to have the concept of investment, which determines and affects The basic conditions for the formation of enterprise costs;
The second is the enterprise’s engineering personnel and management personnel, who affect the consumption level of product design and production costs;
The third is the enterprise’s supply and sales For employees in the department, their business activities affect the procurement costs of materials and product sales expenses. Therefore, costs are closely related to everyone.
It is a must for enterprises to pay social security for employees. It is also urgent for most service companies to provide good training to every employee, instill a sense of conservation, and reduce personnel waste through ideological changes and institutional constraints, so as to achieve the result of reducing corporate production costs.
Learn from mature companies, improve production efficiency, and reduce costs
No matter what, it is inevitable that high efficiency will defeat low efficiency. Many large-scale 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. Yes, but the process and standards will remain at Huawei. There must be a mechanism. No matter who is managing the company, this mechanism will not change depending on the person. But the process itself is dead, but the people who use it are alive, and people need to be aware of it. Understanding of the process. Managers are the ones who know more about the process. Only they, not the grassroots staff, know why the process is set up in this way.
As managers, we need Understand the composition of the system and the formulation of standards, so that you can create a system suitable for your own company according to local conditions, and achieve the results of reducing costs and improving production efficiency.
Improve the employment structure and make good use of part-time jobs, outsourcing, etc. to reduce costs.
Small and medium-sized service companies must learn from mature companies to improve their employment structure. For example, Decathlon has a mature employment structure and relatively low labor costs, which is the background for its closure of physical stores in the retail industry. One of the reasons why it continues to open stores.
Most Decathlon stores are between 1,000 and 4,000 square meters, and the number of full-time employees, including management, is no more than a dozen. Security and cleaning are outsourced , they are not Decathlon employees, and the number of part-time employees in the mall accounts for more than 60% of the total number of employees.
One of our customers is engaged in mid-to-high-end clothing customization. His company used to have more than 70 people, but later he discovered In fact, it is 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, and the rest is integrated with external resources and outsourced. The company’s current labor costs have been greatly reduced.
Intelligent manufacturing will become the core competitiveness of future service companies
Intelligence is now sweeping across all walks of life around the world. The garment industry has excess production capacity in assembly line production, while production capacity in smart flexible production 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 put smart manufacturing on its agenda. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology stated that intelligent manufacturing is the main direction of the transformation and development of the manufacturing industry. 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 foundry manufacturing, but if you only think of Foxconn It would be too naive to think of it as a foundry. Today’s Foxconn has long been a technology giant integrating panel business, PC business, and industrial Internet. Last year, Foxconn’s annual revenue reached 1 trillion yuan, which is more than Huawei, Alibaba, and Tencent. It will rise even more and become China’s low-key technology giant.
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 front of intelligence. </p
