28-29 March-2011 Lecturers School of Management Studies, School of Textile Engineering The University of Faisalabad 1 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

2 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.

3 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

4 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 5 Cotton Ginning Spinning Knitting Printing Made Up MMF & Filaments Weaving Toweling Printing Made Up Manufacturing Unit = 26 Employment Size = 790 Manufacturing Unit = 44 Employment Size = 20,000 Others Cluster Actors Cotton Ginner 22 units (in Faisalabad Region) 156 units (in Southern Punjab region) Small & medium Manufacturing Unit =21842 Larges Units: 32 Employment Size = 400,000 Manufacturing Unit =192 Employment Size = Small & medium manufacturing Unit = 274 Employment Size = 20,000 Large Units: 26 Total Number of Units 1200 Registered Number of Units 300 Employment Size = 250,000

6 Web Based ERP Software as a Service Cloud based ERP / IS Software as a Service Cloud based ERP / IS Operations Finance Services Sales DASHBOARD FOR EXECUTIVE

7 Proposed Concept Web Base ERP Processes Integration B2B Collaboration Uniform User Graphic Interface

8 Thanks