Retailers and suppliers of information through the sharing of POS system, the joint means of forecasting future demand, can achieve quick response to market. The entire supply chain, from raw materials to consumers, the total time is approximately 66 weeks: 11 weeks in the manufacturing plant, 40 weeks in storage or transit, for 15 weeks in stores. Such a long supply chain is not only a variety of costly, more importantly, based on inaccurate demand forecasts on the production and distribution, due to too much or too little amount of loss is very large. As a result, textile and apparel and retail are looking for those in the supply chain of activities leading to high costs and found that the length of the supply chain, affecting the efficient operation of the main factors. Retail and textile and garment manufacturers have to cooperate to share information resources, the establishment of a rapid supply system (QR) to achieve sales growth.
from a business standpoint, EDI trading partners need to accelerate the flow of information, and restructuring operations to achieve the common ordering lead time and cost minimization, in the replenishment, the application of QR can reduce delivery lead time of 75 %.
QR's success must have five conditions:
1, change the traditional mode of operation, innovation and organizational awareness of enterprise management. Enterprises must rely only on its own power to change to improve the operational efficiency of the traditional business sense, we should establish the parties through the supply chain partnership, strive to use all resources to improve the operational efficiency of the modern business sense. QR system in the vertical retailers play a leading role, retail shops is the starting point for vertical QR system. Through the POS sales data and cost information of mutual openness and exchange to improve operational efficiency in various enterprises. QR system clear vertical division of labor between the various business areas and forms of collaboration to eliminate duplication of work, to establish an effective framework for division of work. Through the use of information technology services operations paperless and automated way to change the traditional affairs operations.
2, the development and application of modern information processing technology. The information technology there is a product bar code technology, bar code technology logistics (SCM), electronic ordering systems (EOS), POS data reading system, EDI system, the list of pre-delivery technology (ASN), electronic payment systems (EFT), manufacturers Management inventory method (VMI), continuous replenishment method (CRP) and so on.
3, and supply chain parties to the establishment of (strategic) partnerships. Specific content includes the following two aspects: First, to actively seek and find strategic partners, and second, the division of labor between the partners and collaborative relationships. Cooperation objectives, namely to reduce inventory and also to avoid shortages from occurring, reduce the commodity risk, to avoid the phenomenon of a substantial price cuts, reducing staff and streamlining operations and other transactional work.
4, change the traditional confidentiality of business information on business practices. The sales information, inventory information, production information, cost information exchange with partners to share, and on this basis, the required parties with discovering, analyzing and solving problems.
5, the supply side to shorten the production cycle and commodity stocks. Shorten the production cycle of goods, multi-variety small batch production and small number of multi-frequency distribution, reduced retailer inventory levels, improve customer service levels, the need to take place in real commodity JIT production methods used to organize production, to reduce the supplier inventory levels. QR's focus is to respond quickly to consumer demand. QR specific strategy for immediate sale of goods, automatic material handling, etc..
implementation of the QR can be divided into three stages:
first stage: all the units of goods bar code, that is on all goods consumption module of the bar code symbol EANAJPC, storage and transportation of goods with the ITF-14 条码 unit mark, while the unit of trade is with the UCC/EAN-128 bar code symbol . Transmission using EDI purchase orders and invoices message packet.
The second stage: in the first phase based on the increase in internal business processing strategy. Such as automatic replenishment and other goods for immediate sale and use of EDI more packet transmission, such as the delivery notification message, such as notification of receipt message.
The third stage: in close cooperation with trading partners, using more advanced QR strategies to the needs of the customer to make quick response. In general, internal business optimization is relatively easier, but in cooperation between trading partners, often many obstacles encountered in implementing the third phase of QR, each enterprise must regard themselves as an integrated supply chain system components to ensure the overall effectiveness of the entire supply chain.
implementation of the QR benefits are enormous, far more than its input, you can save 5% of cost of sales, sales to increase dramatically, commodities will significantly increase turnover rate, demand forecast errors will be greatly reduced. In addition, new supply chain management applications in the apparel industry, as well as the implementation of effective customer reflects the ECR, the implementation of value chain analysis of the VCA and other systems.