Coats Digital has announced that Aster Textiles – one of the world’s most diverse textile and readymade garment manufactures, has selected FastReactPlan solution to digitally transform its manual planning processes.
Aster Textiles will now be able to connect more accurate planning and forecasting data across departments, in a bid to improve efficiencies, optimise its On-Time Delivery Performance (OTDP) and significantly reduce lead times.
It’s worth noting here that, founded in 1993 in Istanbul (Turkey), Aster Textiles has grown significantly to become one of Turkey’s top 10 exporters of textile and readymade garments. Aster operates four large state-of-the-art production facilities in Turkey and Serbia, boasting an annual turnover in excess of US $ 100 million and employs over 2,000 workers.
Zumrut GUNGOR, Process Development Director, Aster Textiles, commented, “Aster Textiles utilises a LEAN production system in every phase of production to maximise productivity. We place great importance on automation across all our factory operations and aim to continuously improve our production system infrastructure in line with the best technological advancements available.
On top of Coats Digitals renowned expertise, FastReactPlan simply offered the most optimum scheduling management tool on the market and we expect that this proven technology will ultimately enable us to balance production processes more efficiently and significantly improve our delivery performance so that we have much more time available to focus on other areas of our business growth.”
FastReactPlan is a dynamic production planning and control tool by Coats Digital, part of its Manufacturing Solution Suite. It is designed for apparel and footwear manufacturers to optimise delivery, efficiency, and lead times. The tool integrates capacity, critical path, and materials into a unified planning system, streamlining operations for better performance.
Olcay BILGIC, Production Planning Director, Aster Textiles, commented, “As the volume and distribution of orders increased, it became difficult to control a total of nearly 100 production lines in different locations.”
Olcay further stated that it was very important to control the capacity, efficiency and OTIF (on time in full) instantly with real-time data previously considering the wide variety of models and flexible working arrangements. “Based on these searches, we decided to move forward with FRP, which offered us the best solution,” mentioned Olcay.
Ibrahim Halil HACIKAMILOGLU, Solutions Consulting Manager, Coats Digital, commented, “We are delighted that Aster Textiles has joined our growing global family of increasingly digitized fashion manufacturing partners,” adding, “FastReactPlan will provide greater visibility and one version of the truth for all capacity planning, so that relevant departments can communicate easily to optimise efficiencies and eradicate problems quickly. We look forward to working with Aster to ensure it remains one of the leaders in best practice garment manufacturing across the globe.”
