28-29 March-2011

LecturersSchool of Management Studies, School of Textile Engineering

The University of Faisalabad

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3rd International Conference on Textile and Clothing

BIS: SMEs Issues & UGI based IS to Support Pakistani Textile SMEs

Ch. Muhammad Nadeem Faisal

Engr. Muhammad Khalil Azher

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Introduction

In response to rapid environmental changes, diverse business development and continuous improvement in their information systems, many organizations think to enhance their business processes through integration and B2B (Business 2 Business) collaboration for future. Pakistani entrepreneurs have been facing tremendous changes within economic, commercial and technological environments. As the poor performance of entrepreneurs in textile SMEs is only due to limited resources and unawareness about the Information system capabilities, poor implementation, lack of business processes

integration and industrial collaboration.

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Challenges

There are numerous issues currently facing by the Pakistani SMEs in textile sector are as, excessive regulation, energy shortage, water shortage, difficulties in marketing and selling the products, unawareness about the technology, lack of expertise in information technologies, obsolete technology, limited R&D (Research and Development ) support, lack of capital and financial resources, low skill mix of the labor / work force, limited productivity of works and rising competition due to imported products

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Purpose

• To indentify and analyze the SMEs Clusters. • Business process integration for SMEs and B2B

collaboration in between the different clusters. • Uniform user graphic Interface (UGI) based applications

to increase the adoptability of applications within the users

The purpose of the research work is to propose service oriented cloud based infrastructure as an ideal for SMEs especially for those companies having their no information system based infrastructure and solution to the challenges that they are facing.

Textile Supply Chain

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Cotton Ginning

Spinning

Knitting

Printing

Made Up

MMF&

Filaments

Weaving

Toweling

Printing

Made Up

Manufacturing Unit = 26Employment Size = 790

Manufacturing Unit = 44Employment Size = 20,000Others Cluster Actors Cotton Ginner 22 units (in Faisalabad Region)156 units (in Southern Punjab region)

Small & medium Manufacturing Unit =21842Larges Units: 32Employment Size = 400,000

Manufacturing Unit =192Employment Size = 12000

Small & medium manufacturing Unit = 274Employment Size = 20,000Large Units: 26Total Number of Units 1200Registered Number of Units 300Employment Size = 250,000

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Web Based ERP

Software as a Service

Cloud based ERP / IS

Software as a Service

Cloud based ERP / IS

OperationsOperations FinanceFinance ServicesServicesSalesSales

DASHBOARD FOR EXECUTIVEDASHBOARD FOR EXECUTIVE

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Proposed Concept

Web Base ERP

Processes Integration

B2BCollaboration

Uniform User Graphic Interface

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Thanks