ERP module requirements for micro, small and medium enterprise fashion industry in Bandung

The growth of micro, small and medium enterprises of fashion industry in Bandung is very rapidly and thus the industry has to face the growing competitiveness challenge. The implementation of ERP is considered to be a strategy to support sales growth, increase management ability, enhance marketing network and also strengthen the company competitiveness. In order to be effectively implemented to achieve the goals, the ERP modules requirements are necessary to be identified based on the business process in the micro, small and medium enterprises of fashion Industry. This research is conducted using case study method in eight micro, small and medium fashion enterprises in Bandung. As the references, the business process from Process Classification Framework from American Productivity Quality Centre (PCF-APQC) for Consumer Product, PCF-APQC for Retail, and business process from the previous research are used. While the ERP used as the benchmark is the integration of SAP Apparel and Footwear Solution and SAP Retail as one of the best available technology. The result advices that functionally, the ERP system for micro, small and medium fashion enterprises needs to include product design and development modules, product marketing and selling, procurement and production, human resources management, retail shop management, and finance and accounting modules. For fashion enterprises with different size, it tends to require different level of completeness of ERP module components. The bigger the size of the fashion enterprise, it needs more complete module components based on the main and additional business processes. Whilst, for nonfunctional demand, the micro, small and medium fashion industry desires ERP with the affordable price, having the drill down ability to display data related to production and selling based on the season/collection, able to do product categorization based on the various grouping criteria, the easily understood user interface, and also practical and relatively short training process.