Turkish ready-made garment manufacturer Kardem has selected Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan to digitally transform its manual planning processes and drive production efficiencies.

By consolidating capacity planning data into a single source, Kardem will be in a position to capitalise on more systematic and efficient line scheduling to respond to more complex, last minute order requests in an agile way.

Headquartered in Istanbul, Kardem, has been one of Turkey’s leading, ready-made garment manufacturers since 1990. The company specialises in the design and production of high-volume, time-sensitive fashion garments for Turkey as well as for a number of the world’s leading brands, including Inditex, Gina Tricot and Ralph Lauren. Using a LEAN management approach, Kardem has two factories in Turkey and Serbia and produces an average of 1.8 million pieces a month. 

“For many years we have successfully benefited from Coats Digital’s GSDCost solution to optimise our cost to make processes,” says Kardem’s general manager and owner Ahmet Zeki Erdogan “It felt a natural extension to incorporate the company’s advanced planning and scheduling solution into our expanding ecosystem of technology capabilities in order to digitise our manual capacity planning processes effectively across our operations.

“FastReactPlan will provide the real-time data visibility we need to optimise capacity planning and production efficiencies, enabling us to enhance our customer service by delivering smaller and increasingly more complex orders quickly and on time. As a result of being able to see an accurate picture of free and available line capacity on the factory floor, we will be able to take on additional new business.”

With important information siloed manually in different places across the business, Kardem lacked the consolidated visibility it needed to respond to production or capacity problems as quickly as it wanted to.  Finding realistic workarounds were complex and time-consuming, meaning Kardem not only found it difficult to  meet growing customer demands for faster, more diversified assortments, but also turned business away unnecessarily, due to a lack of business insight into available production lines.

“We are seeing an increasing number of Turkish manufacturers keen to embrace technology to propel their digital transformation journeys in a highly competitive landscape,” said Wesley Ekman - global sales director at Coats Digital. “We have significantly expanded our team across Turkey to offer unprecedented local support for our business-critical digital tools that are powering an agile, resilient, transparent and sustainable, global fashion supply chain.”

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