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WIP (Work In Progress) REDUCTION
Factories typically carry at least 2 weeks WIP i.e. 14 days. Our customers and own experience show that with the simple controls facilitated through FastReact, WIP can quickly be reduced by at least 20%. Based on a company with annual sales of 10 million US$ that could mean a reduction in cash required for working capital of $75,000!
Continuous Improvement - A Necessity for Survival in the Modern Apparel Environment
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Perform Group achieves ZERO late delivery with FastReact
Manufacturing for the Dance and Gymnastics markets, Perform Group, LLC is the leader in providing high quality apparel sold throughout the world. FastReact has helped them to improve its plant productivity,on-time shipping and significantly reduced material inventory.
Crystal Martin achieve rapid ROI through FastReact Planning
Crystal Martin, Sri Lanka, part of Hong Kong based Crystal Group, achieves significant productivity and efficiency gains through FastReact. These have included a 6.5% improvement in factory efficiencies, 38% reduction in air freight and 15% lower finished goods stock holding.
Industry Giant Gokaldas Exports selects Fast React's 'World Class' System
Gokaldas Exports an Indian based company manufacturing and exporting sports,casual and formal apparel worldwide. Manufacturing for top brands such as adidas and levis , with aggressive growth plans, Gokaldas needed a disciplined and systematic approach to production planning and selected FastReact for their proven expertise in this area.
Buyers Look for Value During The Economic Downturn
If the World before seemed difficult, the latest economic downturn hasn't helped, with Buyers placing even greater demands on their suppliers, both in terms of price and lead times...
Lever Style Reduce Lead Times, Improve Production Efficiency and Improve OTDP
Lever Style produce casual and fully constructed woven garments for the world's top brands including Armani, Calvin Klein, Cerruti 1881, Hugo Boss, Paul Smith, Ralph Lauren and Reiss. Production capacity is over 10 million pieces per year. FastReact has been integrated with the ERP system in place at Lever Style and has allowed them to reduce lead times, improve production efficiency and significantly reduce late shipment and air freight charges.
MAS Active Introduce FastReact Evolution planning solution
MAS Active, part of the Sri Lankan based MAS Holdings, has chosen FastReact to provide its production planning and control functions, including both capacity and critical path management, working with and interfaced to its SAP business system.
Zentrix Achieve Reduced WIP & Lead Times with FastReact Planning
Zentrix, based in Mexico, is a vertically integrated manufacturer producing swimsuits, sportswear and intimate apparel for brands including adidas, Speedo & Calvin Klein. Following a successful FastReact implementation, Zentrix have significantly reduced WIP (1.5m fewer garments) and have reduced lead times by over 45%.
Crystal Group Adopts FastReact
Crystal Group in Hong Kong, one of Asia's largest garment manufacturers, have selected FastReact as their Production Planning & Control solution to integrate at the front-end with their SAP ERP System and with GPro shop-floor control system at the back.
Belt Manufacturer TATA Increase Delivery Performance through FastReact Implementation
TATA, based in Guatamala, are one of the largest belt manufacturers in the world with customers including Levi's, Dickies and Relic. TATA have achieved significant business benefits thanks to the FastReact planning system.
Luxury shoe designer Gina Shoes adopt the FastReact approach to planning
Gina Shoes are specialists in luxurious, designer, handcrafted footwear and handbags. Through the implementation of FastReact, they have been given visibility and control over the entire production process.
Improve Cash Flow by Better Planning & Control
The old saying "Cash is King" is heard again and again in today's tough economic times. Here are 3 reasons why cash reserves are more important than ever: 1. Most businesses are seeing reductions in order volumes but downsizing is not an option as the capacity that you have worked hard to build will be require…
Calzedonia Introduce FastReact Evolution
Calzedonia S.p.a. of Verona, Italy, a leading Italian designer and retailer of beachwear, lingerie and hosiery have chosen FastReact Evolution to maximise production efficiency at their factories, whilst improving flexibility, response times and visibility.
Dewhirst Menswear Tailoring achieve improved customer service through FastReact planning system
Latest Fastreact Version Release for Footwear
Specialist suppliers of planning and critical path management software, Fast React Systems Ltd, have recently launched their latest version of Fastreact for Footwear.
Latest Fastreact Version Release for Footwear
As specialist providers to the Apparel and Textiles marketplace for many years, the first version of Evolution for Footwear was launched in 2005 when the software made a successful debut in the footwear industry. Several innovative developments have since been made, specifically with footwear in mind. The most significant enhancement has been additional automatic last planning and control features.
Feedback from the footwear industry highlighted that it was often the lack of availability of the required last or mould that caused an order to be delayed. Whilst superficially this problem can be solved in the same way as material planning, it should be appreciated that because lasts/moulds are re-usable material they must be treated (and planned) differently. The latest version of the Fastreact software expertly achieves this in conjunction with the coordination of effective critical path management, capacity planning and materials planning.
Attila Kurdash, Managing Director at Gina Shoes comments, "The Fastreact approach to planning has provided us with much better visibility and enabled us to effectively plan the production process and also because we now have forward visibility of material requirements, we have been able to significantly reduce our material stockholding, whilst still being able to meet planned deliveries. We are now able to quickly plan (and re-plan) around all production constraints, material availability and lasting restrictions to obtain a realistic and achievable plan, whilst being able to ensure that we meet customer delivery expectations."
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