Selection and precautions of hardware industry

First, the variety of materials and the combination of different sizes, colors and specifications have brought certain difficulties to material management.
China's tool hardware has begun to get rid of the single feature that traditional hardware forms occupy a large share. A group of materials and colors, functions and shapes are combined to develop in the direction of humanization. Light, thin, short and small hardware products have become a fashion in the hardware industry.
Traditional management models, such as sleeves, have 9 product numbers from 3mm to 13mm, plus two quality levels. A simple sleeve has 18 product numbers. Screwdrivers are complex, from flat to cross, metric to imperial, 3mm to 10mm, and can produce dozens of product numbers. In the previous manual mode, it was very difficult to manage so many product numbers. In order to open the purchase order accurately, the purchaser spends a lot of time on reconciliation.
Therefore, when we choose erp for hardware enterprises, we must consider whether erp can effectively solve this problem. Now the popular solution for erp manufacturers is to control by attributes. For example, size is an attribute set, ranging from 3mm to 13mm, and quality is an attribute set, divided into excellent products and qualified products. In this way, the product numbers of the 18 sleeves are combined into one and are only distinguished by attributes. For example, the sleeve is 5mm excellent and the sleeve is 7mm qualified, which is convenient and efficient. When making BOM (Bill of Materials), as long as the selection is correct, there will be no error when making the purchase order and picking list, which reduces a lot of checking time and shortens the purchase cycle and picking time. It is also very convenient to maintain. If you don't want to use the 8mm size in the future, just disable the 8mm attribute.