Coats Digital Helps In Digital Transformation Of Pak Mill
Sapphire Finishing Mills Ltd, a vertically integrated Pakistan based textile mill has picked Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan as a crucial component of its digital agenda, to connect and consolidate capacity planning information across disparate sources into one highly visual and unified system.
According to Coats Digital, FastReactPlan will enable Sapphire to significantly reduce low efficiencies, improve on-time delivery targets and facilitate additional business growth by helping to eliminate under- and over-capacity bookings.
“FastReactPlan will also help firefight on later order change requests and unnecessary overtime and material cost overheads, the company added.
Sapphire Finishing Mills founded in 2003, is the flagship company of Sapphire Group, which was established in Pakistan in 1969.
The company is a vertically integrated composite textile unit, manufacturing specialist cotton yarn fabric and home textile products. It manufactures ready-to-wear clothing for international retail brands and uniforms for heavy industry, healthcare and food services.
Sapphire Finishing Mills produces six million metres of dyed and PFGD (prepared for garment dyeing) cotton and cotton-blended fabrics in various weaves and manufactures 100,000 pieces of specialised work wear every month.
“The main challenge we faced was with planning & visibility of capacity plans across all relevant teams. We lacked any indication that materials had been received on our existing system which was based entirely on a number of Excel spreadsheets,” Shoaib Tasleem, Implementation Manager (IT) at Sapphire said.
“FastReactPlan’s user-friendly drag & drop feature and intuitive dashboard will certainly help us realise significant time savings and will ensure all relevant teams have the visibility they need to quickly ascertain in advance, which machines are available for scheduling,” Shoaib added
FastReactPlan is a dynamic, visual production planning and control tool that optimises delivery, efficiency and lead times.
Designed and developed specifically for footwear and apparel manufacturing plants, it helps companies integrate capacity, critical path, and materials into an integrated planning system.
