Sri Lanka’s Sumithra Garments selects Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan to improve process visibility

Sumithra Garments (Pvt.) Ltd., a leading woven apparel manufacturer headquartered in Sri Lanka, has selected Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan to digitally transform its production processes.

FastReactPlan’s implementation 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.

It’s pertinent to mention here that Sumithra Garments – founded in 1984 – is a manufacturer and global exporter of woven apparel products, with special expertise in woven bottoms and outerwear.

With a dedicated manpower 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 US $ 40 million.

Eshaka Weerasinghe, Deputy General Manager (IT), Sumithra Garments (Pvt.) Ltd. commented, “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. FastReact 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.”

Charitha Liyanagoda, Sales Manager (Sri Lanka), Coats Digital, mentioned, “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.”