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In 2011, the Chinese furniture industry faced repeated challenges due to unfavorable factors such as “purchase restrictions” and rising raw materials. In the face of the unpredictable furniture market, furniture manufacturers strive to explore the path of industrial upgrading and performance improvement, including improving work efficiency, reducing production costs, and tracing product information to ensure product quality to win consumers’ trust. A practical approach to “footprints”.
The American Intermec technology company has rich experience in promoting the informatization of manufacturing. In the Chinese market, Intermec has joined forces with HP based on the CK3 EX25 mobile computing platform and PM4i printer provided by Intermec to join hands for all friends. Furniture Co., Ltd. has created a “one-stop” warehouse and distribution information management system, providing a full-line solution from manufacturing factory offline job scanning, warehousing, logistics and distribution to offices, helping Quanyou Furniture to truly realize “building information” The goal of a “customized and service-oriented furniture manufacturing enterprise” is to reduce the error rate, improve cost-effectiveness, and improve the quality of warehousing operations; and establish a reliable traceability system to ensure the quality of products and services, thereby enhancing the core competitiveness of the enterprise.
The general trend of information management
Established in 1986, Quanyou Furniture Co., Ltd. is the largest furniture manufacturer in China. The company has four industrial parks covering an area of more than 6,000 acres, more than 30 professional branch factories, more than 20 overseas sales and service agencies, More than 3,000 specialty stores. Its products have been sold throughout the country for many years, and are exported to many countries and regions in Europe, America, and Southeast Asia. Whether it is workshop manufacturing, warehousing operations, or information management, the work is very heavy and it is not easy to maintain high efficiency.
Quanyou Furniture successfully launched the SAP system in February 2010. It manages the inventory data of finished products very well. However, the following problems are still unavoidable at the operation level, and they are becoming increasingly prominent:
There are many manual recording procedures, and the efficiency of relying on paper and pen recording is low, and these will affect the speed of import and export.
The staff can only record it on paper first, and then transfer it back to the office or transfer it to the SAP system. Multiple transfers of a large amount of data have an impact on accuracy.
There are a lot of materials in the working environment such as workshops and warehouses, and only relying on paper records can easily miss some information or cause duplication of work because the information cannot be interacted in time.
The information communication between the workshop and warehouse staff and the office staff is not timely enough, and the management cannot realize the response to market decision-making in the first time.
There are many suppliers in the furniture industry, and the company itself has a large number of employees. Once a problem is discovered, it is impossible to trace the root cause and implement the responsibility system.
In short, there is a huge amount of information from raw material procurement, manufacturing, warehousing management to sales and after-sales service. It is facing challenges in integration, management, and application. It is imperative that information management replaces manual records.
Quanyou Furniture hopes that by deploying Intermec CK3 EX25 mobile computers and PM4i printers and HP software systems to improve employee work efficiency, increase operational accuracy, improve tracking systems, identify authenticity, and enforce accountability.
Mobile information operation promotes the development of informatization of the furniture industry
For more than 40 years, Intermec has focused on automatic identification and data collection (AIDC) and mobile computing systems, not only can provide a reliable full range of products, stable solutions to meet the business needs of customers, but also knowledgeable professionals to assist Customers implement new systems that are easy and efficient to deploy and provide long-term high-quality support services to ensure return on investment. According to the situation of Quanyou Furniture, Intermec and Hewlett-Packard Co., Ltd. work together to create a set of high-level overall solutions tailored to it.
Intermec CK3 EX25 combines the advantages of a consumer PDA and a high-end industrial mobile computer. It is a rugged and durable handheld computer with a variety of powerful functions in a compact body. Among them, the excellent scanning function is beyond the reach of other products in the same category. The CK3 EX25 is fully capable of scanning either close-range scanning or long-distance 2D barcode scanning from 1.5 meters to 2 meters. Therefore, warehouse mobile workers can easily scan items on high shelves without the help of ladders, with high accuracy, improving work efficiency and reducing error rates.
The PM4i industrial printer is an Intermec product that has been highly praised by customers since its launch. It is fully capable of demanding applications and work in harsh conditions. PM4i adopts the latest technology, has fast speed in data input and output and printing, stable and reliable performance and excellent printing quality. PM4i is installed in the finished product workshop of Quanyou Furniture. It performs well. It can print 3 million labels in 5 days and record the source of raw materials, quality, nature, responsible person and other aspects of the product.
In addition, Intermec’s technicians provided one-month on-site training and guidance for nearly 30 employees of Quanyou Furniture’s IT department, which helped to deploy faster and smoother applications.
Hewlett-Packard China Enterprise Business Group Technical Service Division Service Product Manager Yu Shengli said: “HP is committed to using technology to change people’s lives and create new possibilities. The furniture industry is closely related to people’s lives, but the production process is cumbersome. A set of finished furniture is from There are many component suppliers and links involved in raw material procurement, distribution, warehousing management, manufacturing to distribution. Only by realizing resource integration and information sharing can cost and efficiency be effectively controlled, while production process and quality can be controlled to ensure delivery time and products Quality. Intermec’s leading automatic identification technology is one of the most important factors for the success of the Quanyou furniture project. Our cooperation with Intermec has been very successful.”
Information management achieves efficient operations
It took only 70 days for Intermec to deploy products for Quanyou Furniture to the official launch of the products. It involved the offline scanning and reporting of more than 20 factories, the management and transshipment of on-line warehouse inventory, and more than 20 storage warehouses. The implementation of the two shipping platforms, fully and seamlessly integrated with SAP’s production plan, MM and WM, completely solved the previous paper-based operation situation, reflected its mature product performance and efficient implementation efficiency, and helped customers in the shortest See the best results in the time:
Enhance the accuracy of various data entry, effectively prevent and reduce recording errors
After working with the mobile information system based on Intermec CK3 EX25 handheld computer, operations such as one-time data collection and automatic generation of electronic forms are realized, thereby avoiding inefficiency and error omissions caused by multiple transfers.
Optimize the existing work process and improve the work efficiency of employees
The second transfer without a large amount of information greatly reduces the workload of employees. The excellent long-distance scanning function of Intermec CK3 EX25 handheld computer saves employees a lot of time, improves work efficiency, and realizes faster warehouse access.
Realize real-time information sharing and quickly respond to the market
Many employees of Quanyoujia work in different positions such as workshops, warehouses, and offices, and move frequently during work. Real-time information communication between them is restricted and the information transmission is not timely. Now that small and portable mobile computers are deployed, workers can update product inventory, customer needs, maintenance and manufacturing information in real time without being restricted by location and time, so that the management can adjust strategies in the first time to meet the market.
Implement the monitoring and management of the entire supply chain and strengthen the traceability responsibility system
Through the deployment of Intermec PM4i printers, each product of Quanyou Furniture is now affixed with an “identity card”, which includes detailed information such as product performance and quality, production date and address, responsible person, etc., which helps manufacturers and consumers to supervise products Quality, authenticity, traceability, etc.
Enhance the core competitiveness of the enterprise and guarantee the return on investment
Building an information platform is a necessary means and way to realize the rapid development of the furniture industry. By significantly improving work efficiency and service levels, it effectively reduces the occurrence of entry errors, improves consumer satisfaction, and enhances the core competitiveness of enterprises. Through this deployment, Quanyou Furniture is expected to reduce man-made losses by RMB 7 million to RMB 8 million per year and recover the cost within one and a half years.
Song Rui, general manager (project leader) of the Supply Chain Management Center of Quanyou Furniture Co., Ltd. said: “Quanyou Furniture understands that only by achieving management improvements and breakthroughs can it provide customers with excellent product and service value. After implementing SAP before, , Standardizing our processes, achieving dataization and integration, but unable to achieve comprehensive informatization from the operation level to the decision-making level, so we have been looking for reliable and professional suppliers to jointly promote the enterprise informatization strategy. This time By deploying Intermec’s CK3 EX25 handheld computer and PM4i printer, combined with HP’s advanced software system, we have greatly improved our work efficiency, reduced error rate, and improved traceability, helping Quanyou Furniture to expand in the fiercely competitive furniture market. It shines. Especially in such a short time, in the face of the variability of furniture packaging and the large-scale implementation scope, we have achieved all success in one switch. We are very happy to cooperate with such an excellent company and will continue to expand our relationship. cooperate.”
Chen Yisheng, general manager of Intermec North Asia, said: “It is an honor to provide Intermec’s full range of products and solutions for Quanyou Furniture this time, and contribute to the informatization of China’s furniture industry. Intermec does not just provide certain products. Or the solution, but to fight side by side with the customer, cope with the ever-changing market, and become a professional and reliable partner of the customer.”
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