Using Information Technology to Lead the Reform of Furniture Enterprises

Information is the resource of existence, information is the source of knowledge, information is the basis of decision-making, information is the soul of control, information is the material of thinking, information is the actual criterion, information is the basis of management, and information is the guarantee of organization.

Information is the resource of existence, information is the source of knowledge, information is the basis of decision, information is the soul of control, information is the material of thinking, information is the yardstick of actual, information is the basis of management, and information is the guarantee of organization. Since the reform and opening up, China's furniture industry has emerged a large number of furniture companies including individuals, joint ventures, and stocks on a weak industrial basis. They have once become one of the most active factors in promoting the country’s economic development, and they also glowed. The glory of the furniture industry in China with a long history and monumental achievements. The facts show that the production capacity of China's furniture companies has risen to a new height, and has driven the rapid development of the economy along the coast and in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. However, as China's industrialization has not yet been completed, the wave of global informationization has already begun to roll. In the era of new industrialization, how to use information to drive industrialization is a new topic for us. It is also a severe challenge that we have to deal with. If we do not respond quickly, we will face a new round of backwardness, and backwardness will always be beaten. China's furniture industry faces great opportunities for development in the new century, but this opportunity can only be truly grasped when we keep up with the pace of the world. In this article, we will analyze how to carry out the historical opportunity of China's furniture industry informatization from several major aspects.

I. Comprehensive understanding of the informationization of furniture companies

The informatization of the enterprise originally originated from the National Information Infrastructure (NII) officially launched in the United States in 1993. It is commonly known as the Information Super-Highway. Since then, Japan, the European Union and other countries have gone all out to promote its information construction, and enterprise information is one of the most important components. What exactly is enterprise information? Many books at home and abroad have different descriptions about this, and experts and scholars also have different opinions. The author believes that enterprise informatization refers to the use of modern electronic information technology in the process of applying information and data. It fully integrates internal and external information resources at all levels, in all aspects and in all aspects of the enterprise's production, operation and management, and realizes the height of information resources. Sharing and excavating its potential, improving the enterprise's production, operation and management level, enhancing the enterprise's competitiveness, promoting the high-quality development of the enterprise's economy, and accompanied by the formation of modern enterprise system, the process of establishing a modern enterprise. It is not an ordinary software product, but the expression of the most advanced international management ideas, management methods, management processes, and management tools .

II. Significance of Information Technology Construction for Furniture Enterprises

With the formation of China's market economy system and the accession of WTO, the competition in China's furniture market has continued to intensify. The current scale, economic strength, and technical ability of furniture companies are no longer the main conditions for judging their victory in market competition. The degree of application of information technology has become a winning weapon among enterprises in market competition. In the process of informationization, the enterprise must be able to obtain comprehensive improvement in its own operating profit, internal operations management, industrial technology optimization and other comprehensive capabilities. According to a recent survey conducted by CCID (CCID Consulting), a well-known informatization consulting agency in China, 70.4% of companies believe that informationization can help promote products, and 67.7% of companies believe that they can increase corporate awareness, with 33.6% of companies. We think that we can reduce production, sales, and operating costs. Looking at China's furniture companies, especially a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises, they should use information technology as a modern tool to realize the comprehensiveness of the enterprise in the absence of any advantages compared to large-scale enterprises in terms of enterprise size, financial capability, and technological level. Horizontal leap. In simple terms, the implementation of informatization in China's furniture companies has the following practical effects:

1) Informationization of furniture companies is a prerequisite for the rapid development of enterprises

First of all, information technology is the most active productive force in the contemporary era. It is changing not only the technical means, but also the impact of a technological revolution on the current system, concepts and behaviors; it is a major change in the production relations brought about by the development of productive forces. . The implementation of informatization can improve the level of business management, market competitiveness, and economic efficiency of enterprises, thereby realizing the rapid development of the enterprise itself. It is an inevitable choice for enterprises when facing competition and challenges. The implementation of informatization has also increased the design quality and speed of furniture companies; reduced production costs and enhanced market competitiveness; strengthened corporate capital flow management and improved the utilization of funds; optimized logistics distribution, and dredging marketing channels; Resource management; improved the efficiency of decision-making; improved the rapid adaptability of the company and expanded market time and space. As Comrade Jiang Zemin said, "Information technology is increasingly and profoundly affecting the development of human society."

2) Informatization of furniture companies helps to achieve the transformation of traditional operating modes

At present, the most intuitive manifestation of the use of information technology is the cost savings and work efficiency. Many companies have now begun to promote "paperless office". This kind of office method has saved the company's costs for a large number of furniture companies that print drawings and bills. While informatization can save costs, the application of enterprise informatization also creates conditions for communication in all aspects of the enterprise and helps to change the inefficient system within the enterprise. Let us foresee how furniture companies will implement production operations after the management system is informatized: After the sales department receives orders from customers through e-commerce, it will issue task instructions to the product development department within the company's local area network, and the development department will follow the requirements of the orders. After related products are used for product design, process flow formulation, and first-level cost assessment, on the one hand, the zero-part information that needs to be purchased or processed by external parties is fed back to the purchasing department; on the other hand, the drawings are issued to each stock preparation workshop for correlation. Material preparation; On the other hand, each machine in the local factory area or even in remote and distant factory branch workshops is reached through the network, and each machine performs pre-production automation according to computer instructions. The entire process from a theoretical point of view does not require any drawings, the management of the processing process will all be carried out on the computer network. Workers in the production workshop only need to use the light pen to scan on the instruction code generated by the correct production and return the error instruction to the development department for modification. The recorded processing data of each workpiece will be automatically fed back to the production management department for summary and process optimization. After the steps described above, the entire production order code of a product can be generated, and when the production is scheduled, the complete order can be input again. At the same time, the superior manager can track, monitor the work status of the subordinates, and understand the production status of the enterprise at any time. It can be expected that the information-based management model will greatly improve the efficiency of business operations and reduce production costs and labor intensity.

3) Informatization of furniture companies can realize distance-free internal management

The informationalization of furniture companies not only saves production costs, increases efficiency, but also enables flattening of the internal management structure of the company. One of the essential characteristics of information resources is sharing. The information construction of enterprises can enable information resources to be shared within the enterprise, and the time for feedback of the original information from the decision-making process to the decision-making process is greatly shortened. The communication between the management and the grass-roots level and various functional departments becomes faster and more direct. . Secondly, due to this management role of informationization, it effectively solved the interference of the so-called “human relations” in the decision-making process of Chinese business leaders. All operations must strictly follow the established procedures, and all illegal operations are in the network. In front of all will become transparent. Through information construction, the responsibilities of all departments have been taken seriously, and the harmonious relationship between the management and the grassroots has been brought closer.

How to carry out the informationization reform of furniture companies

All kinds of signs show that informationization can bring a qualitative leap for furniture companies. However, there are some differences in the current domestic large- and medium-sized furniture companies when it comes to informatization. In order to accomplish this, the author made targeted suggestions on how large and medium-sized furniture companies can carry out enterprise informationization:

1) How large-scale furniture companies conduct enterprise information construction

1-1) According to the actual situation of the enterprise, plan the phased goals for the development of enterprise informatization

At present, many domestic large-scale furniture companies have established a relatively complete modern enterprise management system, which brings certain advantages to the development of enterprise information. However, with the continuous expansion of the company's scale, it is also potentially raising increasingly daunting challenges and requirements for relatively traditional management methods. Moreover, there are still many irregularities in the management process of companies, and the implementation of information systems will inevitably involve the optimization or even complete transformation of these processes. With the redesign of the process, the organizational structure of the company will change. Sensitive actions such as the division of the department, the restructuring of senior leaders, and changes in the positions of personnel will inevitably occur, but it can be confirmed that this change is in favor. The direction of development. Informatization is a complex system engineering. Enterprises must implement information management as a long-term, large-scale project that is implemented in phases. Before the implementation of the project, it is necessary to plan the problems to be solved in the implementation of the large-scale project of information technology, the goals of each stage, the personnel organization of the project, the cost, and the assessment criteria. In the implementation process, monitoring must be carried out and the implementation results of each stage must be evaluated and analyzed [4]. Informatization projects, which are related to the successful implementation of projects in which companies survive or die, must meet the three basic conditions for project success, namely the implementation cycle, implementation costs, and implementation results. Therefore, the development of informatization is a long and arduous process. It is necessary to plan the stages of the development of informatization according to the company's own business methods, product characteristics, and management processes. Only in this way can we maximize the advantages of informationization and avoid the waste of investment in information construction.

1-2) Make full use of digital resources to realize internal and external corporate governance

In front of the concept of informationization, the author mentioned that informatization is a process of achieving a high degree of sharing of information resources and tapping their potential to improve the production, operation, and management of enterprises, enhance the competitiveness of enterprises, and promote the high-quality development of enterprises. Therefore, when enterprises need to measure the input and output ratio of informatization projects, they must make good use of information technology. These include the internal implementation of digitization of enterprise management and the digitization of external operations. Only in this way can we fully integrate internal and external information resources at all levels, all aspects and aspects of the enterprise's production, management, and management, and continuously enhance the vitality of the enterprise. These are also the true meanings of the informationization of the enterprise.

1-3) Cultivate enterprise information talents and develop enterprise-specific informationization

The implementation of large-scale enterprise informationization has reached a point of rapid development at present, and the cultivation of informatized talents has also become the primary condition for informatization. In addition, with the wide application of enterprise information, each enterprise's information construction has also become an integral part of corporate culture.

2) How to carry out informatization construction for small and medium-sized enterprises

2-1) Realize the short-term victory of informationization and immediately increase the competitiveness of enterprises

Small and medium-sized furniture companies in the development of informatization are different from large-scale enterprises in the formulation of phased goals, and their informatization can only start from the most basic information applications, mainly divided into hardware and software preparation. The hardware construction is mainly the purchase of computer equipment and network cabling project; the software must be prepared in more aspects, including staff training, system development, talent introduction and so on. Moreover, as a frontier of enterprise information construction, it is also essential to establish a corporate website. Through the website, it can not only publish corporate information in real time, but also can collect market intelligence information through feedback from various survey forms and adjust product design in a timely manner. These are the key to the realization of informatization by SMEs, and they are also the most basic conditions for informationization.

2-2) Reduce construction costs and achieve targeted results

The development of informatization is easily limited by objective conditions such as funds and talents. For small and medium-sized enterprises, there is a choice of whether enterprise information is a lease or a purchase. For some companies that started late and are not well-funded, it is impossible to set up a dedicated information management department, purchase expensive servers and ERP application software, and you can refer to some foreign practices to take advantage of leasing large-scale IT equipment to build information systems for leveraging development. Strategy to meet the information requirements. When choosing an information service provider, it should mainly consider three aspects: its own strength, product performance, and after-sales service. For companies with purchasing power, it is imperative that they do not rush to achieve success. Limits beyond the size of the investment budget put pressure on liquidity. Small-scale, auxiliary equipment can be purchased at one time. For those equipment that has a large investment and long-term use, the impact on the company's capital turnover and the IT investment budget of the year is carried out in the form of leasing.

China's furniture industry is booming, and changes are quietly taking place. Change is a competition without smoke, but also a helplessness of survival, but also a manifestation of the trend. Faced with many problems arising from the search for survival and development, how to use information technology to concretize this trend of change, so as to create methods and means that can bring positive benefits to enterprises. This is handed over to the managers of Chinese furniture companies. A difficult task. In the process of informatization, even if there are so many complicated factors, there are so many uncertainties, there are so many potential conflicts of interest, and there are so many resistances from people, we should still rise to the spotlight without hesitation. The digital control and management technology strives to reach and exceed the international advanced level, making China's furniture industry standing in the international strong hand in the new century. This article only provides some useful inspirations for the implementation of the informatization of China's furniture enterprises. The real change also requires the responsible person of the company to describe, think, implement and consolidate in detail. In view of China's national conditions and current conditions, many questions must be carefully scrutinized, but we always have reason to believe that accelerating and advancing the informationization process of China's furniture companies is a mature thinking and a bright road.