Sumithra Garments Chooses FastReactPlan To Digitise Its Manufacturing

Sumithra Garments (Pvt.) Ltd., a leading woven apparel manufacturer based in Sri Lanka, has chosen Coats Digital's FastReactPlan to digitise its manufacturing processes.

With the implementation of FastReactPlan, Sumithra Garments will be able to provide complete visibility to planning and production operations for all relevant teams, eliminating low efficiencies and under- and over-capacity bookings; improving on-time delivery targets; reducing unnecessary time and material cost overheads; and significantly reducing firefighting on late order change requests.

Sumithra Garments, founded in 1984, is a manufacturer and global exporter of woven apparel products, with a particular focus on woven bottoms and outerwear.

Sumithra Garments produces 4.5 million garments per year and has a turnover of more than US $ 40 million with a dedicated workforce of 4,000 employees and four state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities across Sri Lanka.

Eshaka Weerasinghe, Deputy General Manager (IT), Sumithra Garments (Pvt.) Ltd. commented, “Sumithra is currently running an Internal ERP to manage its end-to-end apparel manufacturing business. With FastReactPlan onboard, we are looking to enhance our Production/Capacity Planning functions to achieve a proactive, modern-day approach to decision-making. FastReact is a perfectly matched application to align with our existing ERP, so that we can successfully achieve the desired improvements outlined in our digital roadmap. We look forward to improving our production efficiencies and ensuring we achieve speedy order processing every time for the benefit of all our valuable customers and stakeholders.”

Charitha Liyanagoda, Sales Manager (Sri Lanka), Coats Digital, mentioned, “We are delighted that Sumithra Garments has chosen Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan to digitally revolutionise its planning and production processes.  FastReactPlan will enable Sumithra Garments’ planning teams to input key data just once, greatly reducing workloads and human errors to significantly improve the response speed of its planning and production teams – and we look forward to working closely with them to help them realise their digitisation goals so they can take advantage of new opportunities to future-proof their business successfully.”