In recent years, every leather goods factory has been under the same pressure on labor costs. The careful boss of B Leather Factory has been paying close attention to the production process of workers in the workshop in recent years. He has found that after making more reasonable adjustments to the human resource structure, the improvement in the profit margin of each product will be immediately apparent.

As a member of a labor intensive industry, most of the processes of leather goods production are completed manually. As labor costs continue to rise, overall, the era of China's leather goods manufacturing relying on "low labor costs" for revenue has gone forever.

The advantages of industrial resources and labor intensity that China's leather industry relies on will also change. China's leather factory has reached the stage of seeking benefits from management. The previous extensive business model cannot support the leather factory to go forward, and the transition to lean production mode has become one of the effective ways to solve the problem.

An industry insider believes that lean production is not a simple production method, but rather a philosophy and culture of pursuing excellence, eliminating waste in detail, streamlining operating procedures, and optimizing operating processes.

People with rich experience in leather production management believe that lean production is a good production management model in an ideal situation. For the luggage industry, it should be implemented step by step based on the actual situation of the factory. For example, some factories, after receiving an order, basically take all the materials to the workshop based on the order quantity at one time. Generally speaking, it takes two or three days before the finished product comes out. As a result, in the first two or three days, the factory has no production and production efficiency cannot be improved. The materials, cutting pieces, and semi-finished products in the workshop are piled up everywhere, and the production site is messy. It is difficult to control material loss. In order to ship, the loss is amplified during ordering, resulting in unnecessary waste. If the process decomposition and arrangement are abnormal and cannot be adjusted in a timely manner, semi-finished products may accumulate, subsequent processes may wait, and processes may intersect. After optimizing production procedures, factories can not only reduce waste, but also greatly improve the productivity of workers. In addition to studying how to optimize human resources to a greater extent, the boss of B Leather Factory is also studying ways to find alternatives to manual labor. In fact, leather production can achieve partial process automation, but the initial investment is large, which is not suitable for all factories.

Industry insiders believe that if the brand value of local leather goods is improved, the profits of downstream leather goods creation factories will be higher, which will greatly promote the development of the entire leather industry.