Handa Industries – a leading China-based integrated fashion supply chain pioneer and a fashion garment producer – has implemented Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan to digitally transform its production processes.
The selection of FastReactPlan is said to enable Handa Industries to respond to more complex order requests, streamline production processes and improve its on-time delivery targets in more agile way.
FastReactPlan will be used to integrate and connect other data sources of Handa Industries – which have won prestigious accolades such as the ‘China National Textile Industry Council Product Development Contribution Award’ – into a single platform to ensure optimum visibility for all production teams.
It’s worth noting here that, founded in 1995, Handa Industries produces over 50 million garments a year and has a number of subsidiaries as well as production bases across China, Southeast Asia and Africa.
Qiao, President of Handa Industries, commented, “We have met many challenges trying to ensure that planned orders are effectively distributed across our factories. We established a new information centre in 2020 and have used a variety of software solutions to get this up and running. What we were lacking, however, was a robust, overarching digital solution to integrate and connect all the important new data analyses that we had acquired into a single data source that could be easily accessible to all relevant production teams. Without FastReactPlan, our personnel would have to work from a variety of complex manual and digital systems to get the information they needed, which has proved time-consuming and led to inaccuracies in our planning reports. Digital transformation is undoubtedly critical for the future of the entire Chinese market. Traditional Chinese fashion enterprises are only now beginning to catch up, and we are delighted to be partnering with Coats Digital to ensure we remain ahead of the curve and retain our competitive advantage now and in the future.”
Heng, Senior Vice President of Handa Industries, added, “We expect that our partnership with Coats Digital and the implementation of FastReactPlan will significantly elevate our operation and management processes so that we can achieve optimum production scheduling that will maximise efficiencies, balance production lines realistically and help reduce waste by accurately assessing the right quantity of materials required at all times. FastReactPlan will enable us to plan much more accurately so that we can coordinate stable production processes by matching complete production with the fastest time, whilst realising lower production costs, greater customer loyalty and sustainable best practices, at the same time.”
Tan Demir, Global Head of Customer Service, Coats Digital said, “We are delighted that FastReactPlan will play such a pivotal role in Handa Industries’ digital journey. Digital transformation is not about manually copying what you’re doing now and simply putting this into digital formats or software; it’s about successfully transforming processes and people to complement digital applications that will maximise real benefits from digitisation. Rather than simply buying a piece of software, Handa has consequently acquired a technology partner that will guide it through all stages of its digital journey to ensure it remains a beacon of industry best practice within China.”
