By streamlining business critical information into a single digitised source, FastReactPlan will provide an accurate overview of capacity availability, to help meet growing customer demand for more complex styles and faster turnarounds.
Coats Digital is delighted to announce that leading Turkish ready-made garment manufacturer, Kardem, has selected Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan to digitally transform its manual planning processes and drive production efficiencies. By consolidating capacity planning data into a single source, Kardem will be in a position to capitalize on more systematic and efficient line scheduling to respond to more complex, last-minute order requests in an agile way.
Headquartered in Istanbul, Kardem, has been one of Turkey’s leading, ready-made garment manufacturers since 1990. The company specializes in the design and high-tech production of high-volume, time-sensitive fashion garments for Turkey as well as for a number of the world’s leading brands, including INDITEX Group, LPP, Gina Tricot, and Ralph Lauren. Using a LEAN management approach, Kardem has two factories in Turkey and Serbia and produces an average of 1.8 million pieces a month.
Kardem has been ranked among the largest corporations in Fortune and the Istanbul Chamber of Industry (ISO). It is also an active member of the Istanbul Textile & Apparel Exporter Associations (ITKIB) and the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce (ITO).
Ahmet Zeki Erdogan – General Manager and Owner, Kardem, said: “For many years we have successfully benefited from Coats Digital’s GSDCost solution to optimise our cost-to-make processes. It felt a natural extension to incorporate Coats Digital’s industry-leading advanced planning and scheduling solution, FastReactPlan, into our expanding ecosystem of technology capabilities in order to digitize our manual capacity planning processes effectively across our operations.”
“FastReactPlan will provide the real-time data visibility we need to optimize capacity planning and production efficiencies, enabling us to enhance our customer service by delivering smaller and increasingly more complex orders quickly and on time. As a result of being able to see an accurate picture of free and available line capacity on the factory floor, we will be able to take on additional new business. Coats Digital is one of the most highly regarded fashion technology companies in the world and we look forward to continuing our strong partnership to ensure we retain a competitive and innovative edge whilst successfully delivering on our ambitious sustainability and CSR targets.“
Talip Demircioglu – Planning Manager, Kardem, added: “As one of the main suppliers for the world’s largest ready-to-wear brands, it is imperative that we continue to keep up with the changing expectations of our customers by consistently improving our sustainability agenda. The way to achieve this is by increasing our production capabilities, whilst also ensuring we can monitor our production processes instantly with real data, so that we can create fast solutions every time. Because of this priority, we decided to move forward with the FastReactPlan solution to coordinate our supply chain, from order to delivery, in an efficient, flexible, measurable and rapid way.
“Thanks to FastReactPlan, we can ensure efficient planning of our internal and external capacities on a single platform, whilst instantly tracking our actual production activities at the same time. FastReactPlan will enable all relevant departments to work with the logic of “time and action”, starting with cost planning processes. As a result, the solution should ultimately provide many opportunities for us to improve our product development, supply and purchasing processes.”
With important information siloed manually in different places across the business, Kardem lacked the consolidated visibility it needed to respond to production or capacity problems as quickly as it wanted to. Finding realistic workarounds was complex and time-consuming, meaning Kardem not only found it difficult to meet growing customer demands for faster, more diversified assortments but also turned business away unnecessarily, due to a lack of business insight into available production lines.
Ibrahim Halil Hacikamiloglu – Solutions Consulting Manager, at Coats Digital, commented: “We are absolutely thrilled to have partnered with Turkish powerhouse, Kardem to implement FastReactPlan. Manufacturers must remain on their toes to keep up with the latest trends and demands for more diverse, shorter lifecycle assortments, and we look forward to ensuring that FastReactPlan delivers the insights, efficiencies and agility that Kardem requires to meet growing customer and consumer expectations and stay consistently ahead of the game.”
Wesley Ekman – Global Sales Director, Coats Digital, commented “We are seeing an increasing number of Turkish manufacturers, keen to embrace technology to propel their digital transformation journeys in a highly competitive landscape. We have significantly expanded our team across Turkey to offer unprecedented local support for Coats Digital’s comprehensive ecosystem of business-critical digital tools that are powering an agile, resilient, transparent, and sustainable, global fashion supply chain, and we are excited to be partnering with Kardem as they accelerate their digital transformation journey.”
About Kardem
Headquartered in Istanbul, Kardem, has been one of Turkey’s leading, ready-made garment manufacturers since 1990. The company specializes in the design and high-tech production of high-volume, time-sensitive fashion garments for Turkey as well as for a number of the world’s leading brands, including INDITEX Group, LPP, Gina Tricot and Ralph Lauren. Using a LEAN management approach, Kardem has two factories in Turkey and Serbia and produces an average total production of 1.8 million pieces a month.
About Coats Digital
Coats Digital is the leading digital transformation partner for the fashion supply chain, powering sustainable processes and high-value insights through connected technologies. We leverage deep industry and technology expertise to help brands and manufacturers optimize, connect and accelerate business-critical processes from design and development to method-time-cost optimization, production planning and control, fabric optimization and shop floor execution.
Used in over 3,000 factories globally, our unmatched end-to-end apparel, footwear, and textile software and SaaS solutions improve agility, speed to market, efficiency, transparency, and sustainability. Coats Digital – transform with intelligence. coatsdigital.com
Coats Digital is the software business of Coats Group, the world’s leading industrial thread company and a trusted industry player.
About FastReactPlan
Part of Coats Digital’s Manufacturer Suite, FastReactPlan is a dynamic, highly visual production planning and control tool to optimize delivery, efficiency, and lead time. FastReactPlan brings together capacity, critical path, and materials into a single, integrated, dynamic planning system.
The highly visual and flexible ‘drag and drop’ approach to planning allows effective master planning across multiple factories, as well as the detailed and accurate scheduling of manufacturing lines/ machines. Critical pre-production activities (e.g., samples and approvals), and material requirements are dynamically driven in a LEAN pull system based on the latest plan, which supports the reduction of inventory and lead time.
FastReactPlan is typically interfaced with other business systems (e.g., ERP, PLM, inventory & shop floor). Sharing key data reduces data entry workload, improves accuracy, and speeds up the planning process and response times.
Developed specifically for fashion manufacturers of all sizes, FastReactPlan is quick to implement and configured to reflect industry best practices and specific business requirements. It is proven to deliver significant and measurable improvements in speed, flexibility, and efficiency.
