Leading Thai Sportswear Manufacturer Adopts Coats FastReactPlan To Digitally Transform Production Planning

PRESS ROOM

30 Oct

Written By Debbie Mckeegan

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.

The 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 production 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.

Part Of Coats Digital’s Core Manufacturing Solution Suite, Fastreactplan 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.

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.”

“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.” Ampon Ruayfupan,
Managing Director, Pilot Knit Garment

About Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan

Part of Coats Digital’s core Manufacturing Solution Suite, FastReactPlan is a dynamic, visual production planning and control tool that optimizes delivery, efficiency, and lead times.

Designed specifically for footwear and apparel manufacturers, it integrates capacity, critical path, and materials into an efficient planning system, enabling businesses to achieve their optimization and growth objectives.