Apparel Manufacturing
Why Apparel Manufacturing clients choose Strategic Systems Group (SSG) to support their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems?
Apparel manufacturing organizations are inherently complex. There are many moving parts including:
- Product engineering including bills of material, sourcing, work centers, and costing
- Production control including material issues and receipts, production completion, and WIP reporting
- Inventory control including material planning, fabric, trim, finished goods, stock goods
- Finance including A/R, A/P, G/L, financial reporting, and product costing
Experts in Apparel Manufacturing
Our clients’ Operations teams skillfully use accurate and timely information and Intelligent Systems to drive improvements in four (4) critical cost and performance areas:
- Material shortages / substitutions
- Production delays
- Excess raw materials and finished goods inventory
- On-time delivery to customers
What we do for our Apparel Manufacturing clients
Our team is committed to working with people in order to make the ERP software work for them, rather than the other way around. Whether it’s as simple as developing a sales report, optimizing inventory levels, or tracking production activities, our work with apparel manufacturing companies to help them achieve their business objectives:
- Operational efficiency
- Profitability
- Growth
Our clients benefit from our skills and experience in:
- Strategic technology planning
- Business process re – engineering
- Customization
- Software development
- Implementation and support
How we help our Apparel Manufacturing clients
Supply Chain Management
Complexity in apparel manufacturing organizations extends far beyond the organization. As seen during the pandemic, disruption in the supply chain of an apparel manufacturing organization can have significant long-term effects on both production capabilities and customer relationships.
We help clients:
- Effectively utilize a fully - integrated ERP system that provides a unified view of the business operations and real - time visibility into all parts of the supply chain
- Accurately track material availability, cost, and quality by supplier
- Optimize inventory levels based on forecasted sales and
- Minimize the cost of holding inventory
Quality Assurance
Quality assurance is a vital component of any apparel manufacturing organization. Product defects and damages in raw materials and finished goods costs time and money and impacts customer satisfaction and relationships.
We help clients:
- Ensure that receiving and production inspection processes are measured in order to deliver high - quality products
- Accurately track and report product damages in a timely manner
Planning & Scheduling
Material purchase and production scheduling are key activities in any apparel manufacturing company. Advanced planning and scheduling are required in situations where customers must have delivery by a certain date.
Our clients benefit from:
- Efficient utilization of human resources, materials, and suppliers
- Advanced scheduling systems to plan, produce and deliver to the customer by the delivery date
- Advanced warning when supply chain activities have the potential to affect delivery dates
Financial Management
While making products is vital to an apparel manufacturing firm, all roads lead to accounting. In many cases, the operation's impact on the organization's financial statements isn’t known until the end of the implementation instead of the beginning.
We help clients:
- Develop an accurate account of the organization's financial structure and status
- Establish needed financial controls
- Create and maintain audit trails
- Manage subsidiary companies with streamlined consolidated financial statements
- Deploy relevant financial metrics in a Business Intelligence (BI) platform
- Minimize the time needed to close the books and report actual versus budget to the management team
Make-To-Stock and Make-To-Order Manufacturing
Apparel manufacturing two major modes Make-To-Stock and
Make-To-Order
We help clients:
- Develop and execute optimized business processes to utilize additional methods of manufacturing including contract, assemble - to - order, make - to - order, and make - to - stock
- Optimize business processes to increase productivity and reduce waste
- Reduce inventory and working capital requirements
Operations Metrics
Apparel manufacturing organizations have very specific reporting requirements, especially when it comes to Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
Our clients benefit from our Business Intelligence (BI) expertise in managing:
- Sales and growth
- Raw material utilization rates
- Capacity planning
- Quality
- Vendor performance
- On time deliveries
If you want to learn more about how our apparel manufacturing clients have benefitted from our ERP implementation and subsequent support services, then please call (310) 539-4645 or just click here to schedule a convenient time to have a chat with one of our experienced consultants.