Dice Sports and Casual Wear has streamlined its production lines by using Coats Digital’s GSDCost solution.

This has enabled Dice Sports to achieve a 16 per cent efficiency increase on its production lines and reduce its core style Standard-Minute-Values (SMVs) by 11 per cent. Dice adopted GSDCost at the beginning of 2022 to help it overcome a series of costing, planning and manufacturing inefficiencies.

The company found that capacity planning and subsequent order cost quotations were not founded on accurate data but were instead based on historically recorded experiences via Excel spreadsheets and emails. Without a standardised benchmark to record accurate SMVs on the production floor, Dice, consequently, had no way of ascertaining whether its plan/cost targets reflected the reality of its manufacturing processes.The lack of a standardised method across all its manufacturing units consequently resulted in lower productivity which negatively impacted both ODTP targets and overall profitability.

Dice Sports and Casual Wear is an Egyptian knitted garment manufacturer. Coats Digital is the software business of Coats, the world’s leading industrial thread company and a trusted industry player. GSDCost is the international standard for establishing and optimising accurate method-time-cost benchmarks for sustainable garment cost optimisation and manufacturing excellence.