In yet another interesting development, Coats Digital has announced that Gold Emperor Group – a leading international footwear company – has selected FastReactPlan to digitally transform its production processes.
The implementation of FastReactPlan enables Gold Emperor to respond in an agile and integrated way to growing market requirements, reduce its manufacturing lead times and streamline its operations effectively.
The Coats Digital team is in the process of configuring standard functions and processes as part of its wide and in-depth implementation of the FastReactPlan solution across Gold Emperor’s production enterprise.
Wang Shusong, Project Leader, Gold Emperor Group, commented, “Gold Emperor’s Chairman Zhu personally initiated and promoted this project. Following three months of research, Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan solution was eventually selected from many other service providers to serve as the optimum scheduling management tool for our various programme departments.”
Wang further added, “We believe that Coats Digital’s expertise, experience and proven technology will revolutionise our production management operations, and ensure our planning and production processes will be based on a more accurate and scientific footing, once the solution is fully rolled out. The solution will provide our management teams with greater visibility to all scheduling plans from a single data source, which will enable us to balance production processes efficiently and significantly improve our delivery capabilities.”
According to Coats Digital, FastReactPlan – part of company’s core Manufacturing Solution Suite – 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.
Chairman Zhu, Gold Emperor, commented, “In the face of the current complex and changeable external environment at home and abroad, traditional manufacturing companies are facing unprecedented challenges. This has also ushered in a huge window of opportunity for the industry to upgrade its processes accordingly. There is still a lot of room for improvement at a digital level for the footwear industry as a whole, especially with regard to the operation mode in production planning management – which is still relatively traditional in its approach.”
The Group’s management now needs, as per Zhu, to communicate quickly and have faster access to data so it can seamlessly integrate more in-depth information.
“Without robust technologies in place, it is difficult to respond quickly and accurately. At present, Gold Emperor is facing demands for more complex and varied order requests from more customers than ever before. The layout of our production bases, both at home and abroad, are developing rapidly, and an accurate planning management solution such as FastReactPlan, is a prerequisite for our expansion and future growth,” averred Zhu.
FastReactPlan solution is said to provide dynamic and visual planning of capacity, materials and pre-production preparation; the coordination and control of all production operations and a seamless and accurate data management flow.
Marites Avila, Director of Project Implementation, Coats Digital, mentioned, “We are delighted that Gold Emperor has chosen Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan solution to act as the foundation for its digital transformation programme. Gold Emperor did not just acquire a software solution, it also gained a dedicated technology partner and we welcome it into our global family, as we guide and assist its teams through the project implementation process. We are very much looking forward to the successful rollout of this solution, so that Gold Emperor can quickly capitalise on advanced production methods to maintain its market-leading competitiveness.”
It’s worth noting here that Gold Emperor Group is headquartered in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, and has production bases in several domestic provinces as well as in overseas countries.
