Calzedonia Introduce Fastreact Evolution
Calzedonia have an annual turnover of €400m. The organisation has been operating for 20 years and now has approximately 2000 retail outlets throughout Europe selling their Calzedonia and Intimissimi labels.
With the business expanding it was becoming apparent to Calzedonia that their spreadsheet and related manual systems were just not able to cope and they were struggling to see available capacity within the factory locations. Mr. Riccardo Romani, Director of Production, quotes:
"We have chosen Fast React Evolution Planning to enable us to maximize production efficiency at our factories, whilst at the same time providing us with the capabilities for quick response and lead time reduction. These are key requirements for the continued success of Calzedonia to enable us to satisfy our ever-changing customer demands."
The Fastreact solution will provide a detailed and visible plan for each factory at each key production stage and then deliver vital progress information back to the central planning department in Verona. The benefits will be effective planning in terms of order allocation and loading with timely monitoring and follow-up.
Fastreact Evolution Planning incorporates multi-level planning, allowing high level order allocation by Region, Factory or Supplier, plus detailed low level planning by line or machine. Integrated, proactive Critical Path management ensures all development and pre-production activities are achieved in line with the plan. Additional functionality includes cascaded planning for vertical businesses, plus full, extremely fast raw material requirement calculations. Easy integration with other systems allows existing valuable data to be made available at the point of planning; thus empowering decision making.
Andrew Brown, Chief Executive of Fast React Systems commented, "As the industry becomes more complex, not only in terms of products, but also Globalisation and the need to respond much more quickly, then improved visibility and coordination, often across multiple locations, is essential. Existing manual systems simply do not cope. Fast React Systems are specialist solution providers specifically for the Apparel Textiles and Footwear sectors. Constant investment in industry specific development of our Fastreact solutions ensures that we evolve continuously to meet the changing needs of the industry, now and in the future. We look forward to working with Calzedonia on this exciting project and to identifying the rapid payback and business benefits."
