Case Study: Panam Group achieves 3% efficiency gain and 12-month forward planning visibility with Coats Digital's FastReactPlan

FastReactPlan’s Best Practice Planning Implementation Results in 3% Efficiency Gain, Improved Forward Loading Visibility for Panam Group

Panam Group is a vertically integrated knit garment manufacturer in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with around 20,000 employees across five sites and 145 sewing lines, supplying customers such as H&M, GU and Next. Facing lower FOB prices, the company needed to boost efficiency but was hindered by limited forward-loading visibility (only three months), poor coordination between Marketing, Production and Planning, and difficulty quoting accurate delivery dates and identifying pre-production issues.

By implementing Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan—using high-level capacity and detailed line-level sewing planning boards and a pull-system to auto-generate schedules and T&A targets—Panam gained clear load vs. capacity visibility and streamlined weekly planning. The solution extended forward planning to 12 months (forecasting 6–12 months), increased capacity utilization by up to 50%, delivered a 3% efficiency gain, improved communication and coordination, and reduced man-hours spent on manual reporting.

Panam Group

Amit Kumar Biswas

Deputy General Manager IE, Planning & Co-Ordination