FastReactPlan from Coats Digital Improves Sportswear Production Plan Accuracy By 10% And OTDP By 10% At Bowker Asia
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08 November 2023 : The adoption of FastReactPlan has transformed planning processes and streamlined data visibility, enabling Bowker to significantly boost profits by eradicating unnecessary cost overheads, whilst freeing up idle sewing lines to confidently take on new business.
Leading sportwear specialist, Bowker Asia Limited, notably Bowker has increased capacity plan accuracy by 10 percent, boosted production efficiencies by three percent and improved its on-time delivery performance (OTDP) by 10 percent.
FastReactPlan has enabled the company to connect and consolidate its planning and scheduling information across disparate sources into one highly visual, unified system, enabling it to transform its efficiency, data accuracy and inter-departmental collaboration.
Bowker Asia Ltd, is a principal member of Win Hanverky Holdings Limited and primarily operates through OEM arrangements with a number of renowned sports brands.
Founded over 40 years ago, Bowker Asia Limited is a dominant force in the sportswear industry.
Headquartered in Hong Kong, the company employs a workforce of 16,000, strategically located across seven main production facilities in Vietnam, Cambodia and Mainland China.
Bowker has continued to serve prominent international sports brands such as Adidas, Jako, Nike, Reebok, Rei and Under Armour. Boasting and annual turnover of over $271 million, the Win Hanverky Group’s distribution and retail business comprises a mix of high-fashion and sportswear products and a retail network of stores.
Prior to implementing FastReactPlan, Bowker relied on manual processes such as Excel spreadsheets, emails and lengthy meetings to manage all of its capacity planning and line scheduling processes.
This was not only time consuming, but meant that information was often inaccurate and lacked the finer details required to factor in complex styles and smaller, more fragmented order requests.
As a result, Bowker suffered significant efficiency losses in all areas of the business – unnecessary long periods of production idle time, unnecessary inventory and overtime costs and a loss in revenue as a result of having to provide discounts for late deliveries, on top of additional expedited freight costs.
“FastReactPlan dynamically links our capacity plans and accurately calculates the priorities of critical path deadlines based on actual planned requirements. This enables us to provide clearly defined production and delivery dates to both internal and external partners. Now, we have real-time visibility into our material management processes, which was previously only asssessed once or twice a week. As a result, our whole production process runs smoothly. Even the length of our management meetings has been reduced by 50 percent, thanks to FastReactPlan’s report generation tool that provides us with the data-supported business analyses we need to make agile, informed business decisions.” : Ms Fenny Feng, General Manager, Bowker Asia.
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