The textile industry is an ever-blooming manufacturing industry across the globe. From yarn making to the manufacturing of clothes, from the collection of raw material to the delivery of manufactured textile products to customers falls under the textile industry.
The textile industry across the globe is involved in the production of different types of clothes made of different raw materials. From natural products to synthetic products, the use of handloom to the use of the most sophisticated equipment is part of the textile industry. Involving a number of steps including planning to distribution, the textile industry is a chain of manufacturing processes.
The industry has been evolved over the centuries and the history of textile manufacturing is directly connected with human history. From the natural materials to the use of designer clothes have direct links with human development.
How important is an ERP for Textile Industry?
An ERP is essential for the effective management of the textile industry as it helps the industry to plan and coordinate different stages of manufacturing. Organizing the steps from procurement of raw material, data management, order collection, employee management, work schedule management all can be made easy with an efficient ERP.
The textile industry is a manufacturing industry, the users can depend on Manufacturing ERP for coordinating the activities at their unit. The only facts to be taken note of while selecting the ERP are its efficiency to manage different activities taking place at the manufacturing unit and the facility to monitoring all activities from raw material procurement to the selling of the final product.
The industry that needs raw material procurement, use of natural and synthetic raw material should have business deals with various industries including the textile marketing industry, chemical industry, and industries involving in the production of equipment used for textile production. An ERP that has the capability to manage all these outside activities along with the in house working of the industries will be of great use to the industry.
Why use Odoo ERP for Textile Industry?
Odoo ERP for manufacturing is the most sophisticated ERP as it ensures features for accurate planning based on the real-time manufacturing process. Different features required for the textile industry including MRP, quality control, maintenance of equipment are integrated into the Odoo ERP.
The Odoo ERP for the textile industry also ensures real-time communication with different categories of dealers. Display of worksheet, quality alert on all products can also be managed with the Odoo ERP. From production to the management of the sale unit of the manufacturing industry can be brought under a single roof with the help of the floor automation facility.
What is more, the engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain wings of a textile industry can be interconnected with the use of Odoo ERP. All inter-department activities become fast with the use of the best ERP support.
Proper quality control mechanisms and maintenance features also make Odoo the best for any manufacturing industry and the Textile industry is no exception.
Here, we can take a look at all the benefits of Odoo ERP for the Textile Industry. Analyzing the different aspects of the ERP will help you identify your needs and correlate your needs with the features provided in the Odoo ERP for Textile Industry.
Let us take a glance at the main features of Odoo ERP for the textile industry.
Manage manufacturing orders
An exceptional ERP for the Textile industry Odoo ERP for Textile Industry offers features to easily manage manufacturing order. The collection of orders from the customers belonging to different categories is made easy with the manufacturing of order.
Management of manufacturing orders from different units across the globe is one of the time-consuming tasks for any textile industry. Textile Industry being a global industry with demand from across the globe makes the categorization and manages demands and orders.
Work order management
Work order management is the process of managing the raw material required for every manufacturing process. It also helps to set a work task for the day or any other period. The Odoo ERP for Textile Industry also lets you calculate the work hours needed for completing a task and the workforce requirement from different sections for the completion of the task.
With Odoo ERP for Textile Industry, the setting of work order and management of these orders and completion of the task on time with the given number of workers becomes simple. IT also helps to manage the raw materials effectively. The waste of raw material can be avoided with the proper management of work order.
Schedule and plan
Planning work in accordance with the time given in the manufacturing order is important to ensure timely completion of the textile manufacturing process. What makes the textile industry more competent is the number of textile manufacturing units operating across the globe. The demand for the products from a particular unit can be maintained only if the work hours and the use of materials are planned efficiently.
Scheduling of work, scheduling of shift hours of the employees, effective planning of different manufacturing processes including the conversion of fiber into yarn. Manufacturing of fabric from yarn, dying the fabric, and printing of designs on the fabric are different work stages. Besides, the categorization of the process required for different materials including cotton, wool, rayon, nylon also is required.
Plan the Manufacturing of textiles
Planning of textile manufacturing plays a crucial role in developing the business as the planning should be made based on the requirement. The planning should be made based on demand during different seasons. Besides, the demand flow from different countries should also be taken into account while planning the manufacturing activities.
The different processes including yarning, weaving, yarn dyeing, cloth making, and printing and packaging can be planned effectively with Odoo ERP for Textile Industry.
Organize work orders
Work order management is an important aspect of any manufacturing business, so is it for the textile industry. The work order management process begins with the collection requests for manufactured products. The task is to ensure that the requests from the customers are addressed efficiently to convert the requests into a work order.
Besides, the segmentation of work orders based on the type of product needed and sending the work order for approval can be completed quickly with Odoo ERP for the Textile industry.
The work order management feature of Odoo ERP helps to plan work orders based on manufacturing order. IT will help to schedule work and allocate work to different work centers. Coordination of components and allocating working hours to the workforce are part of the process. It ensures to complete the production process in a timely manner.
The approval of the work order and the assignment of work to different sections can also be done with a few clicks.
The work order management process also includes the prioritization of work.
The work order management is made easy with the Odoo ERP for Textile Industry as it meets all these demands.
Manage the Bill of Materials (BOM)
Bill of Material is the documentation process to ensure the quality of the raw materials used in the textile industry for ensuring the quality of final products. Different steps involved in manufacturing can be controlled with the BOM. The description of product quality, different varieties of raw materials that can be used for manufacturing a particular type of textile, and the final product come under the Bill of material management.
Odoo ERP for Textile Industry helps you set up a BOM based on manufacturing orders and operations. Odoo ERP for Textile Industry also helps to describe variants of the same component. Adding routing and by-products are also made possible with Odoo ERP for the Textile industry. Creating multi-level BOMs is also made possible with Odoo ERP for Textile Industry.
Also Read: How to Create Bill of Material (BoM) in Odoo 13
Work center capacity
Work center capacity is the total available working hours, workforce, and the raw materials for the work process. The Odoo ERP for Textile Industry helps you to easily get a thorough knowledge of the work center capacity taking into account the number of yarning, weaving, and dying equipment and the workforce.
The shift hours, the possible working hours for a machine per day, and other aspects that affect the work hours are calculated automatically with Odoo ERP for Textile Industry. This ERP helps to plan the maximum utilization of work center capacity and avoid overuse and plan work and manage orders accordingly.
Flexible master data
Master data management is important as it helps any business entrepreneur to get a thorough idea about the business deals by providing data about all business plans, units involved, and the transactions. The product requirement for the textile industry and the context in which the business deal is taking place can be added to the master data. This master data enables a business operator to study the context and improve the business in the future.
Optional routing
An optional routing feature enables the textile industry to route work orders to different work centers if required. This helps in managing work orders and manufacturing orders in an effective way. Odoo ERP for the textile industry helps you chose to route if required.
The creation of different work centers and routing of the work orders to these centers will help decentralized the manufacturing process. The routing in a textile industry can divert different segments of works to the yarning unit, weaving unit, dying unit, printing, and packaging unit.
Quality control
The quality control mechanism is the success mantra of all business operations. The textile industry can ensure a good customer base only if they provide the best quality clothes to the buyers. The quality and price are proportionate and the quality for a particular price cannot be compromised.
Odoo ERP for the textile industry helps you ensure quality checks at different levels of manufacturing. The quality check begins with the procurement of raw material. All different steps including yarn making form fiber, weaving, printing, use of colors, and chemicals for printing and dying should be checked for quality for the best products. Odoo ERP for the textile industry offers to check at all these points.
Besides, the use of quality control points in Odoo ERP helps you check the defective side and correct the quality issues. The generation of quality alerts also eases the operation of the quality control wing.
Manage semi-finished products
In a textile industry semi-finished products also play an important role. The management of semi-finished products is important to manage the overall operation of the unit. The decision on selling semi-finished products, for example, sale of a woven textile to other units or yarn to a different industry, can be managed with Odoo ERP.
The storage of semi-finished products for later use also turns effective with Odoo ERP.
Repair management
Repair management is an important step in any textile industry as it enables the manufacturer to list out repairs and manage the products in a feasible way. This can be done with the help of Odoo ERP. With Odoo ERP for the textile industry, the manufacturer can register repair orders easily. The repair list from different sections can be accessed and then manage repair activities.
This will enable the manufacturer to enable avoid the wastage of products and ensure maximum unitisation of resources.
Also Read: Repair Management in Odoo 13
Customer satisfaction
Customer satisfaction is the most important aspect of any business. Odoo has a dedicated CRM module to manage the contact details, location, and other details of customers. It facilitates the automatic generation of e-mails and messages to all customers. Besides, the database of documents including past sale history can be accessed with the CRM module.
Planning
Odoo helps to plan future operations effectively. The master production data enables to prepare the schedule for the production process. The access to report and scope for analysis of performance, the possibility for forecasting demand enables the business group to plan effectively.
Supply chain routing
Management of supply chain and routing of products to different chains can be managed with this feature. The routing facility also helps to fix the movement of components and products.
Equipment management
The textile industry is an industry involving a lot of machinery for the production process to ensure the best operation with an ERP solution that offers assistance for regular maintenance work. Getting maintenance requests, approval for a request, managing the maintenance calendar, and other activities can be correlated with ease with Odoo.
Choose the right ERP to make your business profitable. We offer you support for the Odoo ERP customization and ensure the support of consultants to study your needs. Odoo offers you different modules to address all your needs and the best platform for integration. It is always better to make the right choice at the right time.