Category: GARMENTS
Country: India
Region: Asia
FastReactPlan has been selected to provide a highly visual, single source of planning information that will significantly increase production efficiencies, improve On-Time Delivery Performance (OTDP) and reduce lead times.
By Laurena McKenna, Coats Digital
04th November, 2024.
GTS NewsFeed
SAMUTSAKORN, THAILAND and LONDON, UK: Coats Digital is pleased to announce that leading Thai sportswear manufacturer, Pilot Knit Garment, part of the Yong Udom Textile Group has selected Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan solution to digitally transform its manual planning processes by connecting more accurate planning and forecasting data across departments in a bid to improve efficiencies, optimise its On-Time Delivery Performance (OTDP) and significantly reduce lead times.
As part of one of Thailand’s premier textile groups, Yong Udom Textile Group, Pilot Knit Garment was established in 1986 as a specialist sportswear, casualwear and knitwear manufacturer for some of the world’s leading brands including: Nike, Converse, Jordan, Erima, O’Neill, Agnes B and Le Coq Sportif, among many others. Headquartered in Samutsakorn, Thailand, Pilot Knit Garment produces 200,000 pieces per month and employs a workforce of over 660.
Ampon Ruayfupan, MD, Pilot Knit Garment, said: “We expect that the adoption of FastReactPlan will prove a real game changer for us. As part of the Yong Udom Textile Group, although we have access to quality knit and dye mills that provide us with premier fabrics, we have still found it difficult to correctly map our fabric plans. With all our capacity and production plans stored in Excel spreadsheets and updated manually, we suffered a lack of clear visibility into capacity availability, unnecessary confusion around fabric requirements and could not plan orders more than a month in advance. As a result, our planning and production teams were constantly firefighting to meet delivery targets, and we were often plagued with under- or over capacity utilisation. Without an accurate real-time picture of our production line’s capacity status, it often took us over two days to create a workable production plan, and it was hugely complicated and time-consuming to implement any last-minute style change requests.”
Part of Coats Digital’s core Manufacturing Solution Suite, Fast React Plan is a dynamic, visual production planning and control tool that optimises delivery, efficiency and lead times. Designed and developed specifically for apparel and footwear manufacturers, it helps companies integrate capacity, critical path and materials into an integrated planning system.
Ampon Ruayfupant, MD, Pilot Knit Garment, adds: "With capacity and production planning playing such a business-critical element of our business, we needed a comprehensive planning tool to streamline our operations, improve efficiencies and provide accurate visibility into the capacity of our production lines so that we could confidently take on new business and plan orders months in advance. FastReactPlan’s unrivalled capabilities in integrating planning processes quickly and providing dynamic, real-time updates made it the ideal choice. We expect the solution will greatly reduce costs by eliminating shipment delays and poor fabric management, and significantly improve production efficiencies due to better balanced production lines.”
Haruethai Phaleesem, Digital Sales Manager, Coats Digital, said: “We are delighted that Pilot Knit has joined our growing global family of newly digitized fashion manufacturing partners. We worked closely with their teams to seamlessly integrate FastReactPlan with their Tega ERP system. FastReactPlan will now provide greater visibility and one version of the truth for all its capacity planning teams, so it can easily optimise efficiencies and eradicate problems swiftly. We look forward to supporting the company’s digitization journey to help it achieve its business goals and quickly capitalise on advanced production methods to maintain its market-leading competitiveness.”
About Yong Udom Group/Pilot Knit Garment
As one of the leading in vertically-integrated textile businesses in Thailand, Yong Udom Group attributes its reputation to the lasting customer relationships it has developed throughout the years.
Its specialist sportswear company, Pilot Knit Garment, has a 40-year old heritage in the textile manufacturing industry, and boasts extensive experience in a variety of products - most notably in the sports and casual sports categories.
The company offers a full service to its customers – from fabric development to product delivery and has high standard compliant factories that work with major brands across multiple continents, including Nike, Converse, Jordan, Erima, O’Neill, Agnes B and Le Coq Sportif, among many others.
About Coats Digital
Coats Digital is the leading digital transformation partner for the fashion supply chain, powering sustainable processes and high value insights through connected technologies. We leverage deep industry and technology expertise to help brands and manufacturers optimise, connect and accelerate business critical processes from design and development to method-time-cost optimisation, production planning and control, fabric optimisation and shop floor execution. Used in over 3,000 factories globally, our unmatched end-to-end apparel, footwear and textile software and SaaS solutions improve agility, speed to market, efficiency, transparency and sustainability. Coats Digital - transform with intelligence. coatsdigital.com
Coats Digital is the software business of Coats Group, the world’s leading industrial thread company and a trusted industry player.
About FastReactPlan
Part of Coats Digital’s Manufacturer Suite, FastReactPlan is a dynamic, highly visual production planning and control tool to optimise delivery, efficiency, and lead time. FastReactPlan brings together capacity, critical path, and materials into a single, integrated, dynamic planning system. The highly visual and flexible ‘drag and drop’ approach to planning allows effective master planning across multiple factories, as well as the detailed and accurate scheduling of manufacturing lines/ machines. Critical pre-production activities (e.g., samples and approvals), and material requirements are dynamically driven in a LEAN pull system based on the latest plan, which supports the reduction of inventory and lead time.
FastReactPlan is typically interfaced with other business systems (e.g., ERP, PLM, inventory & shop floor). Sharing key data reduces data entry workload, improves accuracy and speeds up the planning process and response times. Developed specifically for fashion manufacturers of all sizes, FastReactPlan is quick to implement, configured to reflect industry best-practices and specific business requirements. It is proven to deliver significant and measurable improvements in speed, flexibility, and efficiency. For more information, please visit: www.coatsdigital.com.
Courtesy: GTS_Newsfeed_Coats Digital dt. 23rd Oct 2024.
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