Sri Lanka's Sumithra Garments adopts Coats Digital's FastReactPlan

FastReactPlan will enable Sumithra Garments to provide complete visibility to planning and production operations for all relevant teams so it can eliminate low efficiencies and under- and over-capacity bookings; improve on-time delivery targets; minimise unnecessary time and material cost overheads; and significantly reduce firefighting on late order change requests, according to a press release by Coats Digital.

Part of Coats Digital’s core Manufacturing Solution Suite, FastReactPlan is a dynamic, highly 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.

Founded in 1984, Sri Lankan headquartered Sumithra Garments (Pvt) Ltd is a manufacturer and global exporter of woven apparel products, with special expertise in woven bottoms and outerwear. The company boasts a dedicated family of 4,000 employees and four state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities across Sri Lanka. Sumithra Garments produces 4.5 million garments per annum and has a turnover of over $40 million. Its international customers include Prana, Dillard’s, Tom Tailer, Asos, FatFace, Next, Marks & Spencer, and Superdry.

“Sumithra is currently running an Internal ERP to manage its end-to-end apparel manufacturing business. With FastReactPlan onboard, we are looking to enhance our production/capacity planning functions to achieve a proactive, modern-day approach to decision-making. FastReactPlan is a perfectly matched application to align with our existing ERP, so that we can successfully achieve the desired improvements outlined in our digital roadmap. We look forward to improving our production efficiencies and ensuring we achieve speedy order processing every time for the benefit of all our valuable customers and stakeholders,” said Eshaka Weerasinghe, deputy general manager (IT), Sumithra Garments (Pvt) Ltd.

“We are delighted that Sumithra Garments has chosen Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan to digitally revolutionise its planning and production processes. FastReactPlan will enable Sumithra Garments’ planning teams to input key data just once, greatly reducing workloads and human errors to significantly improve the response speed of its planning and production teams—and we look forward to working closely with them to help them realise their digitisation goals so they can take advantage of new opportunities to future-proof their business successfully,” said Charitha Liyanagoda, sales manager (Sri Lanka) Coats Digital.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (NB)