A third of the country's export earnings are contributed by the textile industry. Right from sourcing the raw material to making the fabric and IT plays a crucial role.
Fortunately, textile unlike logistics does not suffer from the problem of not having an ERP or an enterprise-wide solution.
In case of textiles, ERP vendors are attacking the market aggressively, knowing that most of the textile companies, except the big ones, operate with disparate IT systems.
Most of the companies have built disparate IT architectures making integration a far cry.
Since the beginning of this decade, the managements of the textile companies have started focusing closely on IT.
Large textile groups started looking at improving productivity across the organization due to global competition.
Even large domestic textile companies have adopted integrated IT systems like ERP, SCM and CRM.
The companies that have adopted ERP have primarily automated financials, sales and distribution, materials management and plant maintenance processes.
But lots of mid-sized and small textile companies that have homegrown non-integrated applications have essentially automated financial accounting and sales invoicing systems.
Merchandising peculiarities, market planning and forecasting, product planning and seasonal variations are some of the key IT challenges the industry faces, particularly in India that affects the manufacturing cycle.
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