FastReact at VT Garment Co., Ltd
The Company
V.T. Garment Co.,Ltd. is one of the largest export garment manufacturers in Thailand. VT specialise in outerwear, casual wear and exporting to Europe, USA, Japan, serving customers such as Nike, Puma, Columbia, Abercrombie & Fitch, Ansons, Decathlon, Peek & Cloppenburg, Kaufhof, Metro, and many others.
Founded in 1981 with a mere 100 sewing machines, the company has grown to incorporate two other affiliated companies in Thailand, Siam Casualwear Co.Ltd and VT Industries Co. Ltd and now employs 3500 staff in total. VT implemented FastReact Enterprise in 2003 and last year upgraded to the latest Fastreact Enterprise Plus version.
The Solution
Khun Orasri Lotharukpong, Deputy Managing Director comments on VT Garment’s experience with FastReact: “We selected FastReact as it met all our requirements for a powerful planning tool, providing a garment industry specific solution that addressed and integrated the key planning areas of factory capacity and critical path not covered by our ERP business system.
Providing we put in accurate parameters and do not ‘kid’ ourselves we can see our ‘real’ capacity and in this way FastReact has bought clarity to our business. To date this has enabled us to make real improvements in On Time Delivery and reductions in air freight.
The training given by Fast React Asia was good but we still feel we are under utilising FastReact’s full capability and that there is a lot more FastReact can do for us. We are currently focusing on more decision-making and financially related reports and using FastReact as a tool to help us reduce lead times and WIP levels. I would have no hesitation to recommend FastReact to other factories. If used correctly they should get a return on investment within 12 months.”
The Conclusion
Simon Gibson MD of Fast React comments, “We are delighted with the success story at VT Garment. Both the FastReact product range and our training and support staff are focused on the fashion industry, so we are able to provide ongoing development of new product features along with the relevant training and support of customer’s staff. To make the best of the system customers should embrace the system as part of a continuous improvement process, as VT Garment have done, and in this way FastReact will continue to add value long after the initial investment and help businesses remain competitive in an increasingly competitive global market.”
