Azim Group, a leading RMG manufacturing giant from Bangladesh, has realised 15 per cent increase in planning efficiencies and a 97 per cent faster turnaround in order confirmation following the implementation of FastReactPlan solution offered by Coats Digital.
As per Coats Digital, prior to implementing FastReactPlan, the capacity management and line planning teams in Azim Group lacked the pinpoint accuracy required to respond to the buyer’s latest changes.
As a result, additional effort and regular reviews were needed with merchandising to ensure all teams had a unified approach to delivery.
With important information siloed in multiple sources across e-mail, excel spreadsheets and over phone conversations, manual planning processes proved time-consuming and inefficient. Based on insufficient data, capacity of the Group was often overbooked or under-booked, causing late deliveries and unnecessary rejection of new orders.
Ehsan Islam, Operations Manager, Azim Group, commented, “In the first year, our planning efficiency improved by 15 per cent and will continue to improve going forward. Furthermore, the new system has helped streamline key processes such as order confirmation, capacity forecasting and line allocation – providing more accurate results compared with previous methods. Ultimately, the improved efficiency is reflected in higher growth in our business.”
Using FastReactPlan, Azim Group now has all relevant information available in one platform, ensuring comprehensive data transparency and visibility across merchandising and planning processes, so that teams can update and respond to new information in an agile way.
Now that minutes-based load versus capacity monitoring has also been accurately established on true actual line plans, merchandising and planning teams can establish accurate plan-based capacity reports within minutes, guaranteeing a realistic capacity status, with timely warning alerts, to avoid overbooking or under-booking scenarios.
Farhan Azim, Deputy Managing Director, Azim Group explained, “Following the implementation of FastReactPlan, we started seeing positive results quickly. These are improvements across major KPI parameters including factory efficiency, planning efficiency, on-time-delivery and on-time T&A completion. Moreover, the new system can process data much faster than the tools traditionally used in the RMG industry. Thus, it enables management to make more informed, data-driven strategic and financial decisions.”
Since implementing FastReactPlan, standardised PO, colour and delivery level visibility is now available across all departments in Azim Group, establishing one version of the truth throughout the business and a single source of all information for better-informed decision making.
All departments are now using FastReactPlan to create accurate, real-time reports and daily activity priorities, including KPIs, all of which are readily available for all departments to see. As a result, Azim Group has saved nearly six Person Days per month in time efficiencies – a 68 per cent time-saving in report generation.
Factory efficiency has consequently improved by 7 per cent; while Cut to Order, Ship to Order and Cut to Ship efficiencies have also improved by 0.37 per cent, 0.89 per cent and 1.36 per cent, respectively.
Ashraful Alam Chowdhury, Senior Implementation Consultant, Coats Digital, mentioned, “The FastReactPlan team understood the technological gap we previously faced in our planning process and were successful in providing us with required solutions. The end result is a customisable and visual system which is easy to operate for non-technical individuals. The system takes real-time data and is able to auto-generate many key reports, hence saving person hours and improving overall efficiency of all concerned departments.”