Engaged in manufacturing lingerie for buyers like Maiden Form, JCPenney, H&M, Simon de Winter, Warnaco, Bonprix, Giorgio Armani, Eveden and DKNY, Busana Remaja Agracipta (BRA) has a capacity for 24 million units of bras, briefs, body suits, camisoles, hipsters, leggings and thongs, with four different manufacturing location in Indonesia and a turnover of US $ 80 million. Constantly striving to improve customer service levels, BRA was facing problems due to the lack of visibility in the supply chain and the time taken to get upd
ates on the current production status, as well as quickly promising delivery dates when booking new orders. In 2010, BRA implemented Fast React’s Evolve solution to handle 350 styles a month, produced in 110 sewing lines and being able to see all factories in order to centralize its planning and decision making processes.
The company integrated Fast React’s Evolve solution with their existing ERP system to improve data integrity, enabling them to start production on time, keeping a track of the production via the solutions Time and Action Calendar and also foresee the issues of pre-production delays and material shortage. “Planning with Evolve also helps us monitor machine allocation in various factories allowing us to reallocate the sewing machines within our 4 factories for optimum utilization. This eliminates our past experience when production is delayed due to machine shortages. We could not see until it was too late,” asserts SL Uttam, President, Busana Remaja Agracipta.
The company can now quickly generate reports on order status and analyse KPI performance on aspects such as shipment and plan vs. actual, in less than 10 minutes. Due to this the staff can now save 2-3 hours per day just on report generation. Having used Evolve for over 4 years, Uttam concludes, “Our KPIs show that we are much more accurate in planning and what we achieve. That
more than justifies the investment in the Evolve system.”
