Q3 2022 Newsletter

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Insights Industry New Product

Fabric is the key Fireside Chat: The Complete fabric
to manufacturer’s urgency of digital optimisation
fortunes transformation solution launched!
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Thanh Cong realises 14%

efficiency gains with GSDCost
Award-winning sportswear and
knitwear manufacturer, Thanh
Cong, has realised a 14% overall
efficiency increase and has
projected over $12,000 in savings
following its first analysis of a
22,000 unit production run, with
Coats Digital’s GSDCost.
The introduction of achievable
performance incentives has
consequently greatly improved
staff morale and motivation, as
goal setting targets are now based
on achievable targets. Find out
more about the value delivered.

An open and transparent

production capacity platform
has also enabled Thanh Cong
management to set achievable
productivity goals based on a fair
standard of working hours.
The Results
• Increased efficiency by 14%
• Projected savings of $12,000 based on a
“GSDCost is the only globally recognised international
22,000 production run
method-time-cost standard to successfully achieve cost
optimisation and sustainable improvements to productivity. • Reduced overtime hours
We certainly have not been disappointed. Coats Digital’s latest • Reduced materials waste
SaaS version of GSDCost has enabled us to not only increase • Happier workforce!
our overall efficiencies by a staggering 14%, but is set to have
a very positive impact on our bottom line. Following the
initial analysis, we project savings of over $12,000 for a 22,000
production run.”

Mr. Tran Thanh Bang, Thanh Cong Smart Factory Team Leader

NEW: FastReactFabric,
combining fabric buying
and cutting into one.
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Inside Message
03 Coats Digital 08 Coats Digital solutions A personal message from
Akash Shah, MD, Coats Digital
A special message from Coats Digital’s Managing Director Coats Digital connected solutions and product
Solution Spotlight: How to reduce fabric consumption and updates highlighting key new functionality.
waste.
We’ve had a busy Q3. I’ve gained sustainability which as you
so much out of my visits globally know, we are very passionate

04 New customers
Featuring: Manufacturas Eliott (Colombia), Gurmen Group
09 New product
Find out more about our new fabric optimisation
solution: FastReactFabric.
with our customers, partners
and teams locally positioned in
markets across South Asia, EMEA
about. Last week, I was
honoured to be invited to speak
at the OGTC Summit in India
(Turkey) and The Hams Group (Bangladesh). and South America. where I engaged with industry
garment manufacturing leaders.
I also took some time out for Experiences such as these are
myself and my family. In keeping truly valuable. These interactions

05 Customer successes
Featuring: American Phil (China) and Son Ha (Vietnam)
Learn more about the significant ROI achievements.
10 Regional updates
Regional news from our teams across the globe
covering Q3 2022.
with Coats Digital values, my
son and I set out to challenge
ourselves but also have some
help us to understand our industry
challenges better, enabling us
to find approaches that will help
quality time together to recharge our partners and customers
and conquer personal goals. become more competitive while
He and I completed a mountain delivering ongoing sustainability
trek and summit in the beautiful improvements.

06 Thought leadership 12 Events Canadian Rockies which

was a fantastic experience. I
Expert opinion, industry insights, interviews and more. Learn
from leading experts and how Coats Digital supports industry
change and sustainability.
Coats Digital is dedicated to sustainable garment
manufacturing. Find out where we will be showcasing
our solutions at an event near you.
returned to work both refreshed
and revitalised. In September,
Sourcing Journal kindly invited me
Akash Shah
Akash Shah, for a fireside chat on the topic of
Director, Coats Digital

Q2 2022 Right steps to fabric buying

Highlights
PT. Sumbiri boosts Viet Vuong cuts
productivity by 13% fabric wastage by
With an absence of standardised 2%, saving 3% in
and optimised manufacturing
methods, PT. Sumbiri were fabric costs
struggling with method and time,
resulting in lost efficiency, variation
in the quality due to increased
defects, making accurate
production planning a real
challenge. Find out how a
scientific approach delivered
optimised garment costing and
significant efficiency gains.
Viet Vuong is known for their
commitment to sustainable
manufacturing processes
wherever possible. Reducing
fabric wastage to zero is their top
priority. Since implementing
FastReactFabric, they have
achieved some incredible results.
How to reduce fabric consumption and waste
Fabric cost is one of the biggest
expenses in the garment
manufacturing process followed by
labour cost. Manufacturers around
the globe have been grappling with
2022 Sustainability Conclave: different fabric saving measures
to make their garment costs more
Akash Shah discusses how competitive, especially in the
current dynamic climate. With rising
technology is delivering minimum wages in developing
countries and newly emerging
transparency manufacturing hubs, manufacturers
are looking for reliable solutions that
Coats Digital were delighted to participate in the Fibre2Fashion can help them regulate and monitor
Sustanability Conclave, with Akash Shah sharing how Coats fabric consumption and purchasing,
Digital is driving forward the sustainability agenda within the to ultimately reduce fabric costs.
industry. This two-day virtual conference brought together global Both fabric consumption (fabric used
corporate leaders and experts from the textile-apparel-fashion in the finished garment, as wellas all
industry enabling them to share their knowledge, ideas and process losses & wastage), and
insights. Watch now to catch up on the discussion.
purchase are interdependent
factors.
The vicious circle of unplanned
buying and unregulated
consumption often leaves a
manufacturer with diminishing
profits and increasing deadstock
- a significant cost burden to
inventory. In this article, published
in Fibre2Fashion earlier this year,
Coats Digital’s subject matter
expert, Rahul Bhardwaj, discusses
steps that manufacturers could
take in order to cut fabric waste.
Find out how you could reduce
your fabric consumption by up to
2.5%!
Learn more.

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Customers
Gurmen Group
In direct response to the
spiralling costs of fashion
manufacturing and to also
help achieve ambitious
sustainability targets, Gürmen
Giyim is investing in innovative
and robust fashion technology
solutions. As part of this
strategy, Gürmen Giyim has
adopted GSDCost, the only
internationally recognised
method-time-cost industry
standard.
Find out why
“During my career, I had the
opportunity to experience
the unique GSD solution
in a variety of different
companies. Solutions such as
GSDCost are very important
and valuable in terms of
using existing resources
in the most efficient way
and ensuring sustainability
in business models. We
believe that our cooperation
with Coats Digital will make
significant contributions
to the efficient use of our
company’s resources and
production capacity, so that
we can ultimately achieve
sustainability, profitability and
reduce our carbon footprint.
With Coats Digital’s GSDCost
solution, our company aims to
increase productivity by 5% in
the first phase and to improve
costs by 3%.”
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The Hams
Group
Leading vertical garment
manufacturer, The Hams Group,
has selected FastReactPlan
with industry partner, Diverzent.
Adopting a production planning
software lays the foundation
of their digital transformation
agenda.
FastReactPlan will help the
company connect and
Customer video testimonial:
Hirdaramani Group
Hirdaramani Group has been
around for over 100 years.
The secret to such longevity
has been to continually evolve
and to embrace technology
as an enabler for digital
transformation.
In this short video, we hear from
Rakhil Hirdaramani, Director at
Hirdaramani Group, about why
Coats Digital was chosen as
a strategic
partner
many years ago and more
specifically, about the benefits
currently being delivered by
GSDCost.
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consolidate information across
disparate sources into one
highly visual, unified system.
This will enable a clear overview
of planning and production
capacity to ultimately support
enhanced customer satisfaction
and drive new business growth.
“FastReactPlan will provide the
overaching data visibility we
need to optimise efficiencies,
enhance our customer service
effectively so we can better
navigate our uncertain world.”
Learn more
Rakhil Hirdaramani
Director, Hirdaramani
Manufacturas
Eliot
Manufacturas Eliot has
adopted FastReactPlan to
digitize production planning
processes in order to manage
increasing order complexity
and volumes, as well as to
reduce lead times.
Read more
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American Phil Textiles
Founded in 1978 as a specialist
lingerie manufacturer, exporting
primarily to the US and Europe
markets, American Phil was
faced with significant uncertainty
surrounding its capacity and cost
controls, and was consistently
unable to respond effectively to
incoming product inquiries. With
its cost and capacity forecasts
based on inaccurate historical
working hours data stored across a
myriad of IT sources, the company
suffered unreliable efficiency
targets, high defect rates, late
deliveries, unnecessary freight
costs and unplanned overtime
costs. Since implementing
Son Ha Garment JSC
Son Ha, a leading Vietnamese
leisure and sportswear
manufacturer achieved an initial
10% efficiency improvement with
Coats Digital’s GSDCost and
is on target to further reduce
manufacturing production times by
50%.
“Our capacity and cost planning
reports were often inaccurate
because the data was based
purely on historical experiences
and this information was not easy
to find by all members of the
team who needed it. The lack of
accurate costing data not only
made it difficult to reach
Customer
Success
Results
GSDCost, the business, planning
and production departments
have been able to make informed
business and costing decisions 5% Productivity increase
based on accurate capacity
forecasts. With higher quality inputs
Improved capacity planning
of costs and a better production
plan, American Phil has realised a
5% increase in productivity. Reduced core standard-minute-
Learn more values
Increased orders
a definitive agreement with Results
customers, but our analogue
approach also meant that we were
wasting hundreds of people hours 10% Improved SMV
on unnecessary manual processes.”
Le Huu Phong, CEO, Son Ha
25% Defect reduction
Garment Joint Stock Company
50% Reduction in production time
Read more about Son Ha’s success [On target after full implentation]
and plans for further improvements.
Fair wage compliance
Manage fluctuating demands
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Leadership
Insights:
Fireside Chat with Akash
Shah: ‘Establish Quick
Wins, Build Confidence,
Always Challenge the
Norm and Keep Going
The fashion industry has been
slow to adapt to digitalization
along the complex apparel
supply chain, with too many
corporate mindsets stuck
in old ways. Digitalization is
needed for every aspect of
‘plan to pack’—from when
brands plan their sourcing
requirements to when
manufacturers pack the goods
produced, which includes
design and development,
costing, production planning,
fabric optimisation and shop
floor execution.
Watch Coats
Digital’s Akash
Shah as he talks to Sourcing
Journal about the need for
greater collaboration and data
connectivity to provide that
full visibility and accountability
where required.
Watch now
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Smart
Sustainable
Fabric
Optimisation David Lush
Coats Digital, Director Solutions Consulting
Point of View:
The importance of
digitizing the supply
chain
Apparel Resources recently
published an article by Coats
Digital’s David Lush, where he
emphasises the importance
of digitizing the supply chain.
He details how businesses
need to continually look at
their end-to-end process while
also addressing their buyers’
needs in order to identify
which technologies need to be
adopted that will help overcome
key challenges quickly.
Read the full article
The second age
of sustainability
Tightening regulations and
sweeping 2030 sustainability
targets will define a new age of
sustainability. Across materials
and labour, fashion brands and
suppliers will need sweeping
change to compete.
In this article, published by
The Interline, Ben Hanson
discusses the need for data driven
disclosure throughout the value chain and
how technology available today, can provide the insights into
materials and labour that will soon no longer be a nice to have,
but a necessity. Read the full article
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Thought
Leadership
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Industry:
Fabric is fundamental to
fashion manufacturing’s
fortunes
We’re in an era of superfast
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fashion manufacturers are Navigating the way through Download our latest eBook
having to pull out all the stops challenges being placed on and discover futureproof
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prices, it has become vital for it is vital that manufacturers
apparel manufacturers to stay implement solutions that offer
precision and organised control Download
sharp, agile and ahead of the
competition. In Fibre2Fashion, of fabric and labour with the
Silky Prajapati shares how ability to adapt to increasing
manufactures can flourish. demands, it’s equally important
Read the full article to reforge the relationships that
have suffered from lockdowns
and restrictions.
Industry Focus:
Digitising costing and capacity forecasting
WTiN recently published an on the most difficult operations.
article ‘Digitising costing and Precise standards means that
capacity forecasting’ in which the engineering team can also
they highlighted RA Intertrading, predict machinery requirements
a valued Coats Digital customer, to anticipate
as a game-changer. They and eliminate
adopted GSDCost to help them bottlenecks.”
digitally transform their costing RA Intertrading
and capacity process. Coats will be able to drive increased
Digital’s Oscar Gonzalez lead efficiency and productivity
the implementation saying, “By and meet increased volume
having an accurate standard, demands.
manufacturers can properly Read the full article
calculate the efficiency of the
sewing floor, identify training
requirements and concentrate
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 Solution
Overview
Solution eco-system across the
fashion supply chain - from
‘Plan to Pack’
Shopfloor
Execution
Fabric
Optimisation
VisionPLM is an intuitive,
flexible and scalable,
browser-based fashion PLM
and sourcing solution that
streamlines and integrates
key business processes.
Configured to reflect industry
best practices, VisionPLM
offers core product lifecycle
management and extended
sourcing functionality, creating
‘one version of the truth’: from
design, material and product
development (including tech
packs), to sampling, approvals,
costing, vendor capacity
management, order allocation
and purchase order status
updates. VisionPLM is proven
to, Optimise,Connect and
Accelerate your business.
Learn more about VisionPLM
for Brands and Manufacturers
“VisionPLM would meet our
current and future requirements
with Coats Digital and their
deep understanding of the
industry.”
Jayne Worden,
CFO, Radley
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Design and
Development
Method-Time-Cost
Optimisation
Production Planning
and Control
In our latest product update
for FastReactPlan, we focus
on materials planning. One of
the ‘key pillars’ of planning is
materials and what’s the point
of having a great capacity plan
if we do not know the current
material status? The simple
answer is, there isn’t one! But
the new additional features and
improvements have been made
that you’ll want to access.
Read more in the Q3 Product
Update and learn more about
FastReactPlan for Manufacturers
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GSDCost is the international
standard for establishing and
optimising accurate method-
time-cost benchmarks for
sustainable garment cost
optimisation and manufacturing
excellence.
GSDCost supports a more
collaborative, transparent
and sustainable supply
chain, in which brands and
manufacturers establish and
Res.Q is a dynamic suite
of digital solutions focused
on the factory shop floor,
delivering rapid data insights,
improved decision making and
better performance. Solutions
are focused on quality and
machine management, line
layout planning and production
tracking. Learn more
optimise ‘International
Standard Time Benchmarks’
using standard motion codes
and predetermined times. This
use of a common language
and standards supports
accurate cost prediction,
fact based negotiation, and
a more efficient garment
manufacturing process, while
concurrently delivering on CSR
commitments. For Brands and
Manufacturers
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transforming
the fashion
supply chain
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Company
Updates
Introducing FastReactFabric:
A unique fabric optimisation solution that
connects buying and cutting operations
“We listened carefully to what our customers
were saying about the fabric challenges
they face, and realised that it made perfect
sense to amalgamate and enhance our
fabric cutting and buying solutions into one
comprehensive single platform to eradicate
key pain points in one swoop. With 70-80%
of fashion manufacturing outlay attributed
to fabric costs, the digitisation of fabric
related processes is the most fundamental
way apparel manufacturers can make a real
difference to their profits, as well as reduce
the impact of fabric waste on the planet.”
Akash Shah, MD, Coats Digital
What Coats Digital is boosting efficiency and
significantly increasing their
Doing to Whittle Down
Waste
bottom line. Benefits
We are thrilled to launch
FastReactFabric, provides
access to accurate data to
90% Reduction in buying
our newly amalgamated
buying and cutting solution,
ensure manufacturers can make
the right decisions about their & planning time
FastReactFabric: a unique,
new market offering that will
buying and cutting processes
at the same time. Unlike other
provide fashion manufacturers
with the insights needed to
fabric purchasing solutions,
FastReactFabric aggregates
2.5% Fabric cost
track real-time fabric usage and historical, past performance reduction
wastage and efficiently plan for and real-time data from fabric
complex styles and colourways. utilisation processes, so that
FastReactFabric combines manufactures can always have Increased efficiency
Coats Digital’s previous the most accurate, up-to-date
industry-leading IntelloCut view of the cutting floor. The
and IntelloBuy solutions into
one single platform, providing
real value of using accurate, 100% Fabric tracking
digitised historical data is that
a closed-loop, continuous it enables manufacturers to
360-degree feedback ecosystem
between buying and cutting
predict their precise needs in
the future, which greatly helps
Reduce fabric waste
operations, so that fashion to support effective longer-term
manufacturers can accurately planning and trend projections.
procure and utilise fabric Find out more
effectively– reducing waste,
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Updates
EMEA
Customer Focus
The team were busy this quarter
welcoming new customers, Alpine
Creations in Egypt and Arise LLP
Integrated Industrial Platforms in
Africa. Both manufacturers will use
GSDCost to improve many areas
of their business. Alpine seeks to
improve Financial Management,
Production Planning and
Manufacturing Excellence while
Arise LLP will optimise their
production methods and tools for
accurate analysis.
GSDCost Successes
Following the recent selection of
GSDCost, the local team
LATAM
Go lives:
We want to congratulate the following customers on their solution Go Lives over the past quarter:
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successfully delivered GSDCost phase
1 training to the Gurmen Group team.
Huge congratulations o the participants
who all passed the theory test with a
resounding 100% pass rate!
Congratulations also to the team
at Dice Group who have recently
completed phase 1 of the GSDCost
implementation, showing considerable
improvement in the core style analysis
within their factory. Watch this space for
upcoming positive results.
Customer Focus
The team was delighted to
welcome Manufacturas Eliot
of Colombia into the Coats
Digital family. Manufacturas Eliot
own several brands including
PatPrimo, Seven Seven and
Facol and are one of the major
textile and apparel manufacturers
in Colombia.
Alongside leading sports apparel
manufacturer, Vertical Knits
SA de CV, Manufacturas Eliot
is adopting FastReactPlan to
digitally transform manual
planning processes in order to
optimise production processes,
significantly reduce waste,
accommodate unexpected style
changes and rapidly respond to
emerging new consumer trends.
Team
The LATAM team were excited
to connect in person with Coats
Digital’s MD, Akash Shah, to
discuss Q3 achievements and
ways in which we can continually
improve the value we are delivering
to our customers.
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Regional
Updates
South Asia
Industry - Bangladesh
Coats Digital was delighted to join the
Textile Sourcing Meet 2022 event that
took place in September in Dhaka,
Bangladesh. The local team connected
with many leading brands and suppliers.
We were thrilled to have the opportunity
to share how we are delivering value to
our customers throughout the region.
Customer Focus - Bangladesh
Existing customer, Hop Lun, is in the
process of rolling out FastReactPlan
to its Bangladesh production facility.
Hop Lun has already reported positive
feedback of great progress and
seamlesss solution integration.
Industry - India
Q3 saw Akash travel to India to connect
with the local team and visit some of
our customers. Akash was also invited
to speak at the 17th Annual ICAHT-2022
hosted by the Okhla Garment and
Textile Cluster (OGTC) where he shared
insights into digitization as a catalyst
for business growth in fashion supply
chains.
Southeast Asia
Industry Team
In July, Coats Digital took part in the Thai In September, Coats Digital welcomed
Garment Manufacturing Association’s Pakawan Veerarote to our Customer
smart factory event. Piyanit Messang, Success Team based in Thailand.
Coats Digital Sales Manager, gave an Pakawan joins as Customer Success
insightful presentation outlining our Manager and will focus on supporting
planning solutions. She provided insight our customers throughout Thailand and
into how they can help manufacturers further afield.
improve their collaboration, OTDP,
efficiency and so much more.
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Vietnam Bangladesh
Events Textile & Apparel SEA
Oct. 27-28 2022
Made in Bangladesh Wk.
Nov. 14-16 2022

Turkey Textile and Apparel SEA -

Vietnam Summit 2022, the
The “Made in Bangladesh
Week” is the first ever
TGMA 15th Istanbul Apparel most influential textile and branding event of the
apparel summit covering the Bangladesh Apparel
Conference Oct. 5-6 2022 SEA (Southeast Asia) region, Industry, dedicated solely to
will be held on October 27-28, celebrating and showcasing
Coats Digital proudly participated in Global Commercial Head, 2022, in Pan Pacific Hanoi, the groundbreaking, newest
the 15th Istanbul Apparel Conference. Wesley Ekman presented a Vietnam. The summit aims innovations, compliance and
We were especially excited about this key note on the topic of why to provide an opportunity sustainable developments of
year’s conference and theme, Green digitization is key to growing for industry stakeholders to the RMG sector in the global
Revolution’ as it falls in line with our your bottom line. The connect and win textile and market. Coats Digital will be
overarching sustainability mission. This sessions were presented to apparel business to ensure attending and our local team
conference was held at Turkey’s most 800-1000 attendees and can be growth in the SEA region. will be on hand to share
important apparel industry event taking viewed on the TGSD YouTube Learn more the latest on Coats Digital
place in the halls of Turkey’s most channel. Click below to watch solutions.
prestigious 5-star hotel. our keynote. Watch now Learn more

Sustainability Leading Green

Week Coats Digital is committed to
In March, Coats Digital joined Coats Group to promote sustainable fastion. People,
Sustainability Week. Planet & Performance is our
In March, Coats Digital joined Coats Group to promote Sustainability Week. focus. Take a look at our latest
Sustainability is at the heart of our business model and we are committed to events, both physical and virtual
pioneering new and meaningful solutions that facilitate the widespread acceleration - we look forward to supporting
of sustainability programmes for the global apparel manufacturing sector. you with your sustainability
initiatives in the near future.
Find out more

Upcoming Events

Webinar: How to reduce your Are you ready to digitally

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help transform your garment production business or brand for a
sustainable future, contact Marketing.coatsdigital@coats.com
In partnership with Fibre2Fashion
Nov. 22 2022 | 1:30pm IST | 9:30am CET
With rising production costs and demands for sustainability
manufacturers must get creative and secure new ways of Follow us!
operating. You won’t want to miss our upcoming webinar with For all the latest on Coats Digital
our product experts who will discuss:
· Challenges facing the apparel manufacturing industry
· How to reduce fabric consumption
· How to accurately forecast fabric buying
· Benefits of a fabric optimisation solution
· Real examples from the industry with tangible ROI.

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