Automating Procurement | Chinese Manufacturing Solutions

Customer

BIG Climatic Manufactory

INdustry

Production

Country

China

Product

1C:ERP

The BIG Climatic Manufactory, in collaboration with its contractor Raytec DGT, embarked on a pioneering project to enhance process automation within its operations. This ambitious initiative involved developing numerous specialized automated workstations, significantly improving operational efficiency.
As one of the first implementations of 1C:ERP in China, the project also included translating the interface into Chinese to accommodate the company's Chinese-speaking users, ensuring seamless integration and usability.

The BIG Climatic Manufactory is a significant player in the household and commercial climate equipment market, with an annual production volume reaching 1,500,000 units. Their extensive product line includes convectors, water heaters, fan heaters, air humidifiers, industrial fans, air purifiers, and hand dryers.
The BIG operates over 20,000 square meters of production facilities, equipped with metal welding, thermoplastic injection molding machines, multiple assembly production lines, and standardized operation process management. The company boasts professional laboratories and dozens of testing equipment, ensuring a complete process quality control system.

Challenges

BIG Climatic Manufacturing aimed to transition from a basic Chinese ERP system, which was primarily used for warehouse management and simplified production operations. In pursuit of a more comprehensive solution, the company sought to implement a unified digital platform to drive production digitalization and create a cohesive information space for the factory.

Before the implementation, the company faced multiple challenges, such as:

Eventually, the customer chose to implement 1С:ERP to address these challenges and the 1C Company’s certified partner Raytec DTG to implement this project in cooperation with the local Chinese joint venture partner Yellow Sun. Firstly, the solution allows for bilingual management, accommodating both the Chinese employees and the Russian-speaking management team. Additionally, a couple of BIG's key partners had successfully implemented 1С:ERP for managing their factories, demonstrating the system's effectiveness.

The 1С:ERP system also offers flexible managerial reporting tailored to China's national standards while aligning with the familiar accounting standards for the Russian-speaking management. Moreover, the availability of the Payroll&HR module addresses payroll calculation tasks, enhancing overall efficiency in managing employee compensation of Chinese manufactoring .

1C:ERP

Flexible and powerful ERP solution for enterprises integrating all of the core and supporting workflows in a single system. 1C:ERP provides advanced production and warehouse management solutions and can be implemented in companies of various industries, e.g. equipment and metal goods production, industrial machinery, food, textile production, and many more.

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What was done

The implementation project, spanning from June 2023 to March 2024, involved several significant actions to enhance operational efficiency.

Automation of 70 specialized workstations

Interface translation to Chinese language

Translated approximately 600,000 interface elements to ensure the solution's usability across different languages.

Process

During the implementation, the following business processes were automated:

Production planning

Production dispatching

Warehouse management

Supply chain management

Sales management

Production quality management

Results

The implementation of the project yielded significant improvements in operational management and efficiency:

automated workplaces

20k

positions in product line (LOTs)

months

The BIG Climatic Manufactory plans to automate several key processes to further enhance operational efficiency and management capabilities. This includes implementing solutions for accurate time tracking and payroll calculation, which will ensure precise recording of working hours and automated payroll processing.

Streamlining the accounting processes for tracking income and expenses is also on the agenda, along with establishing comprehensive costing mechanisms to accurately determine the total cost of production.