SAP BANGLADESH - The most prospect sector.

SAP BANGLADESH – The most prospect sector. By Rajib Imran

• ·         SAP BANGLADESH - SAP in Garments/Cloths/Fashion/outfit/Apparels sector which is main focus area.
• ·         SAP BANGLADESH - SAP can be implemented within your reach around $ 0.5 million (license + Hardware + Implementation Partner) *
• ·         SAP BANGLADESH - SAP can be implemented within very controlled time by perfect plan.
• ·        SAP BANGLADESH -SAP can control this sector of business to make it stable.

Last few months I am having a question in my mind which becomes a must to express and discuss. Some facts those can’t be avoided but can be controlled. Are you confused what I am telling? Please don’t be, I explaining my areas of confusion. Let’s take an example; Bangladesh is a small country which is just raising her head in world economy. Bangladesh is well known in clothing manufacturing. Asia is the source of clothing manufacturing. Here China is the world’s largest exporter of clothing, marking up more than $150bn in exports in 2011 and Bangladesh ranks second at this sector by exporting about $20bn – that represents around 80 percent of all its exports. Here India is also behind Bangladesh by exporting $14.5bn. And Bangladesh strength is even growing because of its cheap labor and maintenance. And China’s market is squeezing because opposite rising of labor cost. But I have a question. Is Bangladesh really prepared for this growth or planning how to make this growth stable and fight in the world market. If the industry can export $20bn than there must be a huge planning for stabilize it first and than keep the accelerate pressing. Bangladesh is having about 5400 BGMEA listed factories. You can get all data from BGMEA web site

As I am not a Garments expert so here I will discuss only the control can be achieve by the ERP software. We all know the benefits of ERP software, as the fortune 500 companies use ERP for their business control and maximize revenue. All major ERP software is having Textile or clothing industry solution. Among them I will discuss only about SAP Apparel and Footwear (SAP AFS) as SAP BANGLADESH. SAP AFS is inbuilt in SAP ECC. You can find more details at SAP (Click here)
For your information I like to share that SAP is the world’s largest ERP vendor with market leading of 22% share in ERP market (Source: Panorama Consulting) So let’s focus what are the benefits can be ensured by SAP ERP for this industry:

SAP BANGLADESH - The SAP AFS Solution Benefits:

• ·         Customer/consumer service can be improved to meet the needs.
• ·         The must improvement in reducing inventory and capital investment risks.
• ·         The ability to handle sizes (grids)
• ·         Ability to categorize products based on their common features (like country importing the goods, quality grade of the product)
• ·         Moreover can be boosting the organizations skill to respond to moving desires.
• ·         Handling materials in sizes is a special requirement in the apparel and footwear industry. This is achieved with AFS Grid functionality.
• ·         The organization will be able to more faster on generate requirements to execute the orders.
• ·         The smooth controlled procurement process to monitoring the shortfall during the life cycle of the order
• ·         Now more efficient and monitored and planned  manufacturing process
• ·         Import and export related events have been linked.
• ·         Can be handle the complicated SKU variants associated with clothing and footwear industry for handling procurement, production and distribution.
• ·         Can be monitor scenarios of discrete and cognitive manufacturing
• ·         Easily and effectively handling of subcontracted orders and specific outsourcing scenarios
• ·         Enhance report for keeping track of delivery commitments and work-in-process goods
• ·         Continuous exertion to avoid broken ranges and have near-real-time synchronization between stocks at stores and dispatch plans
• ·         Can be easily identified and manage of tracking non-moving or slow moving stock and implementing an effective replenishment strategy.

These all the service can be handle by the ERP for these industries (SAP in Bangladesh):

• ·         Weaving & Spinning 
• ·         Sewing
• ·         Dyeing 
• ·         Knitted Products 
• ·         Textile based subsidiary Industries serving to Apparel makers 
• ·         Small accessories to Textiles like Narrow strips, Embroidered strips etc.

The modules can be offered for Apparel / Garments are:

•          Financial Accounting (FI)
•          Sales & Distribution (SD)                   
•          Controlling (CO)
•          Materials Management (MM)
•          Production Planning (PP)
•          Quality Management (QM)
•         Plant Maintenance (PM)
•     Human Resource Management (HCM) and Payroll.

And last but not in the list:

·         The resource of SAP or SAP consultants are available more than any other ERP in Bangladesh. 

As far my knowledge SAP is implemented in Bangladesh at this sector not more than 5%. So a huge field to work with and make this sector stable with salable control and world class solution monitoring.

I also know lots of companies are in confusion of taking SAP for its process and implementation approach. But believe me you can get SAP in Bangladesh implemented within your very range, please discuss with SAP Experts in Bangladesh before taking any decision for ERP, as they can guide you about the cost and the controlled implementation success SAP in Bangladesh. Don’t get frightened for the data and idea you will get from the marketing people of SAP in Bangladesh. And please be specific for your scope and don’t try BIG BANG approach for the implementation of SAP in Bangladesh, you can achieve your goal but you have to spend time. It’s not plug n play it’s all about your business re-engineering. For more help visit: Association of SAP professionals in Bangladesh

For More information:

SAP Online Help 

SAP Help with Documents

SAP BEST PRACTICES APPAREL AND FOOTWEAR 

N.B: I apologies if anyone got hurt by any unconscious means of my writing. I am not a garments expert. I am an EPR expert and want to analysis its implement sector to explore the truth behind the ERP implementation. All data presented here are based on personal analysis.

* This is an average assumption with limited number of license and perfect implementation planning. I will write another blog regarding this in details steps including plan, Step by step implementation, choose hardware and also for AMC (Annual Maintenance Cost Plan)

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