YU HAN FACTORY launched official manufacturing workshop system in Sept. It integrates management of materials resources, human resources, and production data by monitoring, tracking, and controling of the whole production process. The data management system helps improve productivity and quality, and also reduces production cost.
At the same time, its MES is linked with Bestsino's ERP to share data, timely give feedbacks of order status. In this way, it makes the largest use of production supply chain to provide more convenience to our clients.
Flexible supply chain is also called agile supply chain. It can be thought as a form
It can be understood as a supply chain form that responds flexibly to changes in demand, or as the adaptability and agility of the supply chain to changes in demand.
Market demand can bring uncertainty to the supply chain, resulting in excessive or insufficient inventory, delayed response speed, and high communication costs. In the past, traditional supply chains could only drive production processes and material procurement processes by predicting demand in advance, making inventory risks difficult to avoid. For some closed clothing brands, high inventory is often the last straw to crush the camel.
Zhuo Rui has pioneered the "small order quick return" production model, conducting small batch rapid testing based on market demand, and then selecting whether to increase production based on the test results, avoiding a large backlog of inventory. The demand is prioritized and then supplied on demand, using a flexible supply chain to respond to the diverse and rapidly iterating consumer demands of clothing categories.
The flexible supply chain model of small orders and quick returns reduces the lag from the market end to the production end, making it more flexible. The most important thing is to enable enterprises to have the ability to respond to market changes and price fluctuations, help cross-border e-commerce enterprises turn passive into active, and improve their core competitiveness.
The rapid development of new technologies and the gradual establishment of standardized business processes are essential for the development of flexible supply chains. Zhuo Rui integrates manufacturing processes such as design, production scheduling, inventory, and quality management online through its self-developed digital management tools. The entire chain can be managed online, and suppliers can use real-time updated data to seamlessly, accurately, and efficiently complete the production process, achieving both efficiency and quality.
Cross border e-commerce enterprises can choose and cultivate suppliers from different regions and types based on their needs, whether it is raw materials or production and logistics suppliers, and reach flexible cooperation agreements that are acceptable to both parties. In recent years, more and more cross-border e-commerce companies have established new production lines in the United States or Vietnam, or directly cooperated with local high-quality suppliers. This not only avoids trade barriers, but also avoids some of the crises of logistics costs and timeliness when shipping costs are high. Localization of research and development or production is not only a measure to increase supply chain flexibility, but also the first step for many brands to globalize.
On the R&D side: the application of technologies such as big data, the Internet of Things, and AI can help enterprises quickly understand consumer needs. On the other hand, new technologies can also help enterprises quickly implement design ideas, convert requirements into products, shorten the R&D cycle, and improve R&D efficiency.
Production side: Strengthen investment in information technology, combine emerging technologies such as 5G, blockchain, artificial intelligence, and digital Li Sheng to help factories achieve intelligent manufacturing, complete the comprehensive connection of people, machines, materials, and systems in the production process, accelerate production efficiency, and reduce losses.
The key to a flexible supply chain lies in real-time feedback and collaboration between the market and production ends. The orderly and efficient operation of fragmented orders cannot be achieved without the help of a comprehensive and real-time collaborative management tool, which collects and integrates data and information from various links in real time, providing decision-makers with decision-making assistance, and adjusting and optimizing the operation of each link in a timely manner.
Through digitization, flexible supply chains have overcome the major challenge of efficiency, and establishing clear and unified design, production, and quality inspection standards can help enterprises achieve quality control. Suppliers only need to arrange production and production according to requirements, and everything is traceable. Taking the clothing category as an example, there are clear guidelines for the raw material handling, size, sewing, and packaging of each piece of clothing. Production and processing can be carried out according to standards, ensuring the quality of the goods and avoiding possible disputes between both parties on delivery issues.
Flexible supply chains have no fixed form, and different enterprises can explore and establish flexible supply chain models that are in line with their own business models.