Case Study: FCI (BD) Ltd boosts planning performance 15% and increases capacity utilisation 5% with Coats Digital's Evolve

FCI (BD) Ltd increases capacity utilisation by 5% using Evolve

FCI (BD) Ltd is a Bangladesh-based garment group operating four production units since 1997, producing about 18 million high-quality ladies’ garments a year for retailers like M&S, H&M and C&A. Rapid growth exposed planning bottlenecks: teams relied on multiple spreadsheets and manual processes, which created poor visibility of capacity, difficulty monitoring critical paths and frequent last-minute firefighting.

FCI implemented Fast React’s Evolve, integrating it with their ERP and standardising planning across teams (rolled out in ~3.5 months), giving visual, up-to-date insight into orders and critical paths. The result: performance to plan improved by 15%, factory utilisation and efficiency rose ~5%, on-time delivery performance significantly improved, firefighting and surprises fell, and last year’s airfreight costs were reduced to US$6,000.

FCI (BD) Ltd

Maher Matin

Director