Case Study: Classic Fashion Apparel achieves streamlined planning and faster time-to-market with Coats Digital (Fast React Evolve)

Classic Fashion Apparel selects Fast React’s specialist manufacturing planning solution to support efficient growth

Classic Fashion Apparel, founded in 2003, has grown into the largest apparel manufacturer in the Middle East with annual turnover of US$353m (2016), 20,000 employees and over 52 million garments produced. Rapid growth, more styles and smaller order quantities, plus rising speed-to-market programs, exposed weaknesses in largely manual, disconnected planning processes that were labour intensive (more than six man-days per week to update) and a constraint on further improvement and expansion.

To address this, Classic Fashion selected Fast React’s Evolve planning solution, integrated with CTeBS Trendz ERP, to provide master planning across factories, detailed sewing line scheduling, critical-path management, MRP and a KPI dashboard for senior visibility. The implementation—delivered on time and on budget—is expected to streamline planning, speed time-to-market, improve productivity and eliminate excess cost, with the quickest wins and an anticipated return on investment of around six months.

Classic Fashion Apparel

K.S. Sanal Kumar

Chairman and Managing Director