Seidensticker uses Coats Digital to provide full visibility of its capacity planning and critical path.

This will enable Seidensticker, an European manufacturer of men’s shirts and women’s blouses, to respond quickly to smaller, more complex order requests and reduce the time and cost challenges involved in meeting customers’ last-minute change requirements.

The solution offered by Coats Digital, called FastReactPlan, provides total visibility to global capacity planning and workflow processes which allows business-critical decisions to be made quickly and ensures early discovery of potential delivery challenges. FastReactPlan significantly improves production efficiencies, increases OTDP and reduces workloads as well as reduces last-minute firefighting for planning teams across the whole business.

Coats Digital helps brands and manufacturers optimise, connect and accelerate business critical processes from design and development to method-time-cost optimisation, production planning and control, fabric optimisation and shop floor execution. Used in over 3,000 factories globally, Coats’ end-to-end apparel, footwear and textile software and SaaS solutions improve agility, speed to market, efficiency, transparency and sustainability.

FastReactPlan is an apparel production planning software solution, supporting a faster, more reliable order confirmation process and production plan which is optimised for delivery, speed and efficiency.The highly visual, flexible drag and drop approach to planning allows effective master planning across multiple factories, as well as fast, detailed and accurate scheduling of manufacturing lines/machines.