Category: GARMENTS
Country: Germany
Region: Europe
FastReactPlan to Optimise Production Planning and Control
From GTS News Desk
Press Release 'Coats Digital'
14th December 2022.
Seidensticker, a leading global producer of shirts and blouses, embarked on its initial project with Coats Digital to meet growing demand for shorter lead times and to manage increasingly complex order requests effectively
HONK KONG, CHINA and LONDON, UK – 14 December 2022 – Coats Digital is delighted to announce that Europe’s leading vertically-integrated manufacturer of men’s shirts and women’s blouses, Seidensticker (Overseas) Ltd., has adopted Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan solution to provide full visibility of its capacity planning and critical path, so that the company can respond quickly to smaller, more complex order requests and reduce the time and cost challenges involved in meeting customers’ last-minute change requirements.
For over 100 years, Seidensticker has been one of the leading shirt and blouse manufacturers in Europe and boasts an annual turnover of $145M. The 100% family-run business is headquartered in Bielefeld, Germany and has its Asian headquarters in Hong Kong. The company also has its own factories in Vietnam, Indonesia and Bangladesh. Seidensticker supports a 2,300-strong workforce across four factories, which produce 420,000 Seidensticker-branded garments a month. The company additionally has another five partner factories that provide garments for other brands - producing between 550,000 and 800,000 pieces a month.
Seidensticker found that without good visibility to key planning and workflow data, capacity management and line planning teams did not have the accurate data they needed to seamlessly manage higher quantities of smaller orders that often required style variations with increased complexity. The company also found it challenging to manage late customer changes to orders since business-critical data was siloed in multiple sources, which meant teams could not work together from a single source of data, to respond to late order change requests quickly and effectively.
Peter Tornow, Managing Director, Seidensticker (Overseas) Ltd. said: “We chose FastReactPlan following a strong recommendation from our HQ’s Supply Chain department and a highly compelling product presentation from the Coats Digital team. With higher basic Cost-to-Make outgoings and raw material costs industry-wide, as well as increasing requests for faster, shorter and more complex orders, we needed a solution that would provide total visibility to global capacity planning and workflow processes so we could make business-critical decisions quickly and ensure early discovery of potential delivery challenges to enable us to action these fast and effectively. We expect the implementation of FastReactPlan to significantly improve production efficiencies, increase OTDP and reduce workloads, as well as reduce last-minute firefighting for our planning teams across the whole business.”
Wesley Ekman, Senior Global Sales Director, Coats Digital, commented: “Seidensticker is a world-renowned specialist in high-quality shirts and blouses, and we are absolutely delighted that this retail and manufacturing powerhouse has selected FastReactPlan to streamline and optimise its supply chain processes. Companies that invest wisely in the right digital technologies to plan effectively, optimise operational efficiencies and respond quickly to demand changes will be in a much stronger position to weather the storm, and we very much look forward to supporting Seidensticker’s robust digitisation programme to ensure it consistently retains an ‘ahead-of-the-game’ competitive advantage.”
About Seidensticker (Overseas) Ltd
For over 100 years, Seidensticker has been one of the leading shirt and blouse manufacturers in Europe and boasts an annual turnover of $145M. The 100% family-run business is headquartered in Bielefeld, Germany and has its Asian headquarters in Hong Kong. The company also has its own factories in Vietnam, Indonesia and Bangladesh. Seidensticker supports a 2,300-strong workforce across four factories, which produce 420,000 Seidensticker-branded garments a month. The company additionally has another five partner factories that provide garments for other brands - producing between 550,000 and 800,000 pieces a month.
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
FastReactPlan is developed exclusively for the fashion, textile and apparel industry and can be configured in multiple ways to reflect industry best practice and specific business requirements.
FastReactPlan is the market-leading apparel production planning software solution, supporting a faster, more reliable order confirmation process and production plan which is optimised for delivery, speed and efficiency.
The highly visual, flexible ‘drag and drop’ approach to planning allows effective master planning across multiple factories, as well as fast, detailed and accurate scheduling of manufacturing lines/machines. Critical pre-production activities and material requirements are dynamically driven by the latest plan on a LEAN ‘just in time’ basis, supporting the reduction of inventory and lead times.
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