Development And Realization Of Material Management System For Small & Medium Manufacturing Enterprises

Information management in SMMEs (Small & Medium Manufacturing Enterprises) plays an important part in information management, and material management is essential in information management, so it is important to make material information more exact. Information management can give SMMEs a suit of normative rules for management and a path for obtaining correct and effective material information. The paper brings forward a feasible method face to Chaoyang Steering Gear Co.Ltd information management to solve the problems on material management in the enterprise. Rules to get a normative information management for SMMEs with the combination software system are set up. The management rules which are used for modulating the existing rules and making BPR for the enterprise are introduced. Software is used to get in-time and exact information of all materials. It also makes material information more convincible and timely and materials management more effective.The research actuality of the field about SMMEs is analyzed in the paper at first, and problems that exist in most of SMMEs are summarized. The viewpoint that combination of inventory management and workshop management is just the basic management of material information is indicated. The theory that the key of material management is the correct and in-time data in inventory management and workshop management is put forward. The paper expounds a standpoint that management of workshop is just the same as the inventory management in managementable sense.It also suggests settling parts of workshop's function with the same angle as inventory management. Four modules, including inventory management, workshop management, production management and piece rate wage management are also introduced. The paper describes the system requirement of each module in details and illustrates the application on the four modules. At last, the tools which are used for developing the software system are introduced and the functions which are usually used are introduced in detail, the forward function of the software system is also introduced in the paper.Price management for materials is brought into material management. In the modules of inventory management, price of materials also can be calculated with the price management which has two applications for selected, and the effect on material management of the fluctuating is expounded in the paper. The store location is explicated to be a record but notjust situation code. The store location is defined as information for description. The management makes full use of store space. The piece rate wage is calculated with the record in transmission record, it is calculated with each labor as a unit, and the effect of piece rate wage management on material management is illustrated.The system has a good expansibility which can be used in many SMMEs. The system is being used in Chaoyang Steering Gear Co.Ltd and received a well reaction.