Pilot Knit Garment adds planning tech

Thai sportswear manufacturer, Pilot Knit Garment, part of the Yong Udom Textile Group, has selected a new tech partner to digitally transform its manual planning processes.

Pilot Knit Garment has selected Coats Digital ’s FastReactPlan solution to digitally transform its manual planning processes by connecting 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.

With all Pilot Knit’s capacity and production plans stored in Excel spreadsheets and updated manually, the company suffered a lack of clear visibility into capacity availability, unnecessary confusion around fabric requirements and could not plan orders more than a month in advance. As a result, its planning and production teams were constantly firefighting to meet delivery targets, and it was often plagued with under- or over capacity utilisation

Part of Coats Digital’s core Manufacturing Solution Suite, Fast React Plan is a  visual production planning and control tool that optimises delivery, efficiency and lead times and helps companies integrate capacity, critical path and materials into an integrated planning system.

Ampon Ruayfupan,  MD, Pilot Knit Garment, said: “Without an accurate real-time picture of our production line’s capacity status, it often took us over two days to create a workable production plan, and it was hugely complicated and time-consuming to implement any last-minute style change requests.”