Yinsh Precision Industrial Co., Ltd.

「Yingshi Precision Industry has transitioned from a traditional to a high-tech precision manufacturing industry, upholding the philosophy of "quality first, service foremost," and advancing towards the vision of "Constructing the world with little parts," becoming a global leader in component supply.」

Yingshi Precision possesses research and development capabilities and strong marketing prowess. They have introduced high-precision production equipment and established the industry's first "Precision Nut R&D and Testing Laboratory." Apart from capturing 80% of the domestic market share in the precision component industry, Yingshi Precision has also established seven major marketing service centers in overseas markets. Yingshi Precision is highly committed to promoting Industry 4.0's intelligent manufacturing facilities. As the existing ERP system cannot keep up with the company's growth pace and is limited in functionality, Yingshi has decided to choose the iTEC ERP as the core of its information integration platform. This integration will encompass Skymars and other information collection software and hardware devices.

Yingshi has more than ten factories in the Taichung City metropolitan area and seven major marketing service centers worldwide. Their business reaches out to over 30 countries, extending their presence globally. The existing ERP system does not utilize the APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling) functionality, and due to the company's continuous expansion, the current system is no longer sufficient for their needs. It also failed to provide optimal solutions for manufacturing and production, hindering the improvement of internal production management and sales effectiveness within the company. Yingshi has decided to replace the existing ERP system and has begun evaluating multiple ERP system brands based on functionality, completeness, implementation cost, the vendor's expertise, and service capabilities.

iTEC stands out among various firms as the key due to its innovative and intelligent features. It offers a comprehensive and integrated set of modules, including BI SYSTEM, SFC, MES, APS, MFLOW, EIP, and more. Moreover, iTEC provides a complete solution for intelligent manufacturing, automating the collection of production reporting information and warehouse management. The system is capable of rapidly adapting to dynamic changes in production and manufacturing processes. Ultimately, it can provide Yingshi Precision with a comprehensive data collection and integration solution.

Yingshi began preparing for the ERP implementation project in April 2017, aiming to have all factories in the Taichung City metropolitan area go live simultaneously in January 2018. The project involved a year of effort, including training seed members and reengineering various business processes.

• In the first phase, the priority was to implement essential modules such as business, sales, inventory, APS, and others.
• During the second phase, actual cost settlement was carried out, and modules like MFLOW and EIP were introduced, allowing integration of Yingshi's internal data management and enabling the collection of big data.
• With the guidance and planning provided by i-TEC's professional consultant team, boasting over 20 years of rich experience in system implementation, Yingshi highly appreciates and trusts their services.

After adopting the concept of finite capacity through APS implementation, Yingshi can improve its current production scheduling capabilities. In the past, Yingshi operated with the concept of infinite capacity, which made it challenging for production management to grasp the actual production lead times. They could only rely on past experiences for scheduling purposes. However, this approach often resulted in significant discrepancies with actual production lead times, causing production to fall behind schedule. As a consequence, effective allocation of production capacity and resources became challenging, and production was frequently done on an ad-hoc basis, based on the current day's situation. When resources cannot be efficiently allocated, production efficiency stagnates, and it becomes challenging to improve overall productivity.

By implementing APS and providing guidance on advanced scheduling concepts, Yingshi can enhance the scheduling capabilities of its employees. By systematizing and digitizing past experiences, the system can inform employees about the daily production capacity and which orders can be delivered on time. It can also identify orders with bottlenecks that need to be addressed. With this approach, production management can proactively schedule daily and weekly production plans, while the sales team gains accurate delivery information. Procurement can promptly procure materials, and the warehouse can prepare the required components for daily production. Employees can have a clear direction in advance, avoiding rushing to meet delivery deadlines and ultimately increasing each individual's work efficiency.

• ✅Improve order delivery rate
• ✅Respond quickly to customer inquiries about delivery dates.
• ✅Respond promptly to customer inquiries about delivery dates.
• ✅Strengthen production-sales coordination, enhance response speed, and improve the ability to handle emergencies and abnormalities.

With the implementation of iTEC, Yingshi Precision hopes to enhance its ability to collect production reporting information. In the past, the integration between Yingshi and Skymars required exporting Skymars' production reporting information from the system and manually importing it into the ERP system using Excel by MIS personnel. This manual process led to a delay in data collection and feedback due to the need for periodic management and import tasks.

iTEC offers a more intelligent solution to address the current challenges faced by Yingshi Precision: Through database integration between iTEC and Skymars, the system regularly retrieves data from both sides for confirmation and synchronizes the production reporting information. By replacing the manual Excel import method with an intelligent solution, iTEC not only reduces manpower but also minimizes the risk of errors caused by human oversight during data import, leading to a more streamlined and error-free data collection process.

• ✅Effectively shorten the time for production reporting information feedback to the ERP system.
• ✅Avoid manual errors during data import.
• ✅Reduce discrepancies between practical and ERP information.
• ✅Enable faster and more accurate production progress information for sales through rapid reporting feedback.
• ✅Facilitate quicker access to production progress information for production management and sales teams.

The ERP real-time dashboard allows employees to grasp the daily work progress, while supervisors can track the daily shipping achievement rate through the dashboard. By integrating attendance data, on-site supervisors can also have real-time access to the number of staff present for the day. This enables timely monitoring of production and shipping progress, enhancing internal operational management within the company.

During the second phase, Yingshi Precision implemented Enterprise Process BPM, which effectively reduced paper usage. Additionally, it provided a more convenient approval system. Even when supervisors are out of the office, they can receive documents for approval through their mobile devices. In cases of urgent orders that require immediate processing, personnel can conveniently review and approve documents while being outside, minimizing delays in the approval process.

The implementation of the shipment plan has strengthened the communication and coordination of delivery dates between departments. In the past, the sales department could not immediately know through the system whether the current orders had been shipped or if they could meet the scheduled delivery dates with customers. The previous practice required sales personnel to spend more time communicating with the warehouse management, and there was no communication platform to bridge the gap between both parties. As a result, both sides continuously inquired without a proper communication channel in place.

Through iTEC's shipment planning module, the communication time between both parties can be shortened, and they can collaborate on a single platform to provide delivery date updates. Sales personnel can inform warehouse personnel of the expected shipment schedule and quantity, and the warehouse can provide feedback through the platform, allowing sales to receive accurate information promptly. When customers inquire about the progress, sales can also provide timely feedback.

In the past, communication between sales and production management required much time for confirming delivery dates and tracking current production progress. Sales personnel often had to closely monitor the production progress of orders scheduled for shipment and audit for any potential delivery delays. On the other hand, production management also needed to spend time finding relevant information to provide feedback to the sales team.

The implementation of the production and sales platform and production progress tracking allows for more efficient and rapid access to production status. Sales personnel can directly query production progress in the system, which shortens the communication time between sales and production management regarding delivery dates. The production and sales platform calculates delivery times more accurately based on the current production status of Yingshi, effectively reducing the frequency of delivery date changes. This enables production management to provide more realistic delivery dates, thereby improving the on-time delivery rate of customer orders.