Kinba men's wear: information technology allows companies to stay "Ba Jin"

If Google searches for a few key words in “Jinba menswear and informatization”, it will retrieve a lot of news reports about the development of various types of informatization at different time periods in Jinba Menswear (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (abbreviated as “Jinba Menswear”). Gives people the impression that this is a clothing company that pays more attention to information construction. And Zhou Yong, the director of the Jinba men’s wear, confirmed that the reporter’s feeling is correct. He said: "As early as in 2005 our president proposed the 'information to the world', is to hope that there is an in-depth development in this regard, I hope I can lead the enterprise information to a new level, to bring a difference to the company The competitiveness."

In the past seven years, Zhou Yong said that IT has been fully integrated into all aspects of production, ordering, sales, logistics, and after-sales services of Jinba men's clothing, which has laid a solid foundation for the realization of lean management and precise marketing for Rimula menswear.

However, Zhou Yong and his team are not easy. He said: "I have more than 100 people under my command, but these people may be more busy than the developers of some software companies, because many systems have to be developed by us. Although we hope to buy ready-made software, many systems look for All over China can't find a suitable one and can only do it by itself.” For example, the current ordering system of Jinba men’s clothing and the core distribution retail business system are developed by the company itself. However, what makes Zhou Yong proud is that the IT system of Raptors Men’s Wear is doing very well. “It should be said to be very specialized and very close to the business. For example, our ordering system may be the best ordering system in the domestic apparel industry. Many suppliers did not expect that a clothing company would have such a solid IT system to support it. They are also very surprised." Said Zhou Yong.

Today, the core distribution retail business system of Kinba Menswear is deployed in a distributed manner over more than 30 nodes across the country, providing IT support for the normal operation of Kinba Women’s National Garments over 3,000 stores nationwide. Zhou Yong’s current job is still to constantly upgrade the system around this system to make it more suitable for the business of Kinba’s men’s wear.

In IT system hardware construction, Rimula Menswear has established a new data center in Shanghai, and has also created a precedent for comprehensive virtualized applications in the apparel industry. In addition to the production system database, Rimubi Men's SAP/ERP, DRP, BI, and CRM More than a dozen business systems such as OA and OA are completely migrated to virtual servers.

Zhou Yong said that this kind of in-depth virtualization brings completely different experience to the use of Kinba's men's clothing. In the past, the application environment of Rimoc Men’s Clothing was complicated, and the requirements for hardware resources, operating system versions, and database versions varied from application to application, and a new application on the line was quite time-consuming and laborious. After the virtual data center was fully established, the time for deploying new applications was reduced from 30 days to 1 to 3 days. In addition, management has achieved a transition from equipment management to resource management, and from decentralized management to overall management, which has reduced the cost of management by a factor of two. In addition, the cost savings from deep virtualization are also considerable. If traditional methods are used, more than 40 servers will be needed for more than 10 applications of Raptors Men's Wear, but due to the virtualization method, Rimuba Men only uses 13 blade servers. Even with the related software costs, the total cost is saved. 30%.

“Also, the hardware we use is actually not very expensive. For example, we use ordinary Intel servers to run a very complex business system. Of course, the better performance of Intel servers is also a key factor.” said Yong Zhou. .

How informatization brings about competitiveness for Raptors Men’s Wear. Zhou Yong did not respond positively, but said with a smile: “We people often call ourselves 'fuxing stars' because our company’s performance has remained at an annual rate of 30 since we came to the company. More than 1% growth, so the company is also very willing to continue to invest funds to carry out information construction."