Department of Textile Technology

PSG College Technology, Coimbatore

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ABSTRACT

One of the oldest industries, which fulfill the basic needs of mankind, is Textile Industries. It is labour intensive, raw material intensive, capital intensive, product intensive, inventory intensive and with just one exception i.e. profit margins, which are non-intensive. Most developed countries have passed on this business to developing countries and now source their requirement from them. The new globalization policy has removed all economic barriers & also created fierce competition, lot of challenges between the industrialized nations. It is common knowledge that the exercise of the globalize programmed was drawn up with the objectives of the survival of the fittest without any partiality of any country. The fittest means to produce the best quality of product with cheaper rate. So, it has become very important for a textile industry to integrate with Information Technology to survive in this era of competition. The application of IT has effectively reduced time of manufacturing along with constant monitoring & rectifying the faults if any during the production change. One innovation has been the ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING (ERP) application, which is a tool that brings about effective co-ordination between the departments of an organization to direct the process by providing comparative information & analysis regarding trends and forecasts. It assists in effective management of the supply chain, just-in-time inventory and information as well as enterprise logistics management.

So, nowadays ERP solutions are largely used for effective monitoring and control, accurate planning and scheduling of orders, better data predictions, quick response to query and on-line detailed information of orders. This paper mainly deals with basic fundamentals of ERP and role of ERP in textiles along with its benefits and advantages.

INTRODUCTION

In a progressively IT driven global economic environment, it is indeed a very important and necessary to promote and facilitate adoption of IT in the textile industry and trade also to help this industry to remain in the national/international competitive market. Some of the Indian Textile Mills has started using an Information Technology for over the last 10 years in specific areas of service functions like payroll, purchase, store, accounting, establishment etc. Later on, the use of information technology has been extended to other fields in textile industry like development of data management system for production on-line data monitoring system provided on different control/monitoring systems on latest machines. For a most modern textile mills, one can think of application of information technology which can be used right from the purchase of cotton from the fields as per specifications, fibres from factories, hire the places equipped with the machinerys as per the requirements, plan the production of different items as per schedule, maintain the quality of output product and lastly helps in selling the end product through internet.

The importance of efficient production management is well known in controlling overall profitability of an industrial unit. A production manager needs to have control over output of the factory, quality of goods produced and cost of production. In this information-centric age, the better you are informed the better is your performance. Computer information systems for production planning and control are aimed at equipping management with accurate information for making sound decisions. The number of textile business houses, which make use of such systems, is very less. A use of such systems in unit shows that it helps them to be far ahead of their competitors in terms of capacity utilization, cost control and market share.