Hardware industry selection and precautions

First, there are many kinds of materials, and the combination of different sizes, colors and specifications brings certain difficulties to material management.

China's tool hardware has begun to get rid of the single feature of traditional hardware forms accounting for a large share. A set of materials combined with color, function and shape, in the direction of humanization. Light, thin, short and small hardware new products have become a fashion in the hardware industry.

Traditional management models, such as sleeves, sizes from 3mm to 13mm, have 9 product numbers, plus two quality levels, a simple sleeve, there are 18 product numbers. Screwdrivers are more complex, from flat to cross, metric to imperial, 3mm to 10mm, will produce dozens of product numbers. In the previous manual mode, it was very difficult to manage so many product numbers. In order to accurately open purchase orders, purchasing staff spend a lot of time reconciling.

Therefore, when we choose the ERP of hardware companies, we must consider whether ERP can effectively solve this problem. Now the more popular solution for ERP manufacturers is to control through attributes. For example, size as an attribute set, ranging from 3mm to 13mm, quality as an attribute set, divided into excellent products and qualified products. In this way, the 18 sleeve product numbers are combined into one, distinguished only by attributes. Such as sleeve 5mm excellent, sleeve 7mm qualified products, convenient and efficient. When making BOM (Bill of Materials), as long as the choice is correct, there will be no mistakes when making purchase orders and picking lists, reducing a lot of reconciliation time, shortening the procurement cycle and picking time. It is also convenient to maintain. If you don't use the 8mm size in the future, just disable the 8mm attribute.