Characteristics of machinery industry:
Starting from the production characteristics, we can see that the machinery manufacturing industry has the main characteristics of that based by discrete, supplemented by process and focused by assembly
First of all, making production plan and production management tasks are heavy. Machinery manufacturing enterprises are mainly engaged in single, small batch production, process of products change frequently, due mainly to according to the order to organize production, it is difficult to predict at what time the order comes, therefore, procurement and production workshop program will need to have a good production planning system. Secondly, the automation level is relatively low. Machinery manufacturing enterprises are mainly discrete manufacturing, quality and productivity of products to a large extent dependent on the skill level of workers, automation only at the unit level, such as CNC machine tools, flexible manufacturing systems, etc
Thirdly, the resource of machinery manufacturing enterprise is difficult to coordinate. In addition, arrangements of machinery manufacturing production equipment is generally carried out layout in accordance with the process, the process of every product may not be the same, and that the same process can be carried out more than one machine . Therefore, they need to schedule the processing of materials and need to carry intermediate goods.
The solution of mechanical industry:
First of all, be suitable for the mechanical product to update at stable growth rate. Machinery manufacturing industry is unlike electronics, food, pharmaceutical industry innovated as a high frequency, it needs a ERP system to be able to maintain its product quality, quantity be consistent from beginning to end, providing the standard management system for enterprise.
Secondly, completely with MRP Ⅱ function. Production in the machinery industry, need to assist machinery manufacturing enterprises to keep accurate in the production planning and raw material supply through the MRP main production plan, production plan and material requirement plan.
The selection of ERP must be higher than the current level of machinery enterprises management, not only ensuring the enterprise to use the ERP system to improve the management level, but also can keep up with the cycle of ERP system upgrading.
Finally, in the manufacturing industry, generally every kind of product are not completely according to process to proceed, and each product used by so many parts, and each part of each process, need to go through multiple steps and links , which is the discrete characteristics of the mode of production. Features of the manufacturing process is different from other industries, therefore machinery manufacturers need a ERP system to be able to meet their requirements.
Choose competitive software vendors
Since the implementation of ERP is a long-term process, in the process of ERP selection, in addition to the function of ERP products need to satisfy the demand of mechanical machining, the maturity of ERP software product, development, management status and service ability of software vendors, are the key to the evaluation. The service capability of vendors is one of the key factors. In general, competitive ERP manufacturers are relatively well in terms of service.