Odlo has increased productivity by ten per cent, optimised profit margins and enhanced team members’ motivation and earning capacity by adopting Coats Digital’s GSDCost solution.

The time taken to produce core styles has fallen by 13 per cent. Odlo has subsequently greatly improved on-time deliveries and has been able to confidently take on significantly more new order requests as a result of the GSDCost implementation.

Prior to implementing Coats Digital’s GSDCost solution, Odlo based its cost and capacity forecasts on inaccurate historical data stored in multiple Excel spreadsheets which were difficult to update in real-time across all costing, capacity planning and manufacturing teams. As a result of inaccurate standard minute values regarding cost to make production times, and poor costing and planning visibility, Odlo occasionally failed to meet on time delivery targets, which meant steep additional overhead costs and customer complaints.

Odlo, based in Norway, is a sportswear brand. The company’s manufacturing arm produces over 2.4 million pieces a year and supports a workforce of just under 500.Coats Digital is the leading digital transformation partner for the fashion supply chain, powering sustainable processes and high value insights through connected technologies, and is used in over 3,000 factories globally.

GSDCost is the international standard for establishing and optimising accurate method-time-cost benchmarks for sustainable garment cost optimisation and manufacturing excellence.