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Crystal Group Adopts Fastreact
The Company
Hong Kong based Crystal Group is one of Asia’s largest garment manufacturers producing a full range of products from sweaters, to cotton knits, woven and intimate garments.
Crystal Group employs about 30,000 people and has its own manufacturing facilities in 6 locations. The Group produces over 180 million pieces of garments per annum for world-renowned fashion brands and with annual sales over US $800 million in Year 2005.
The Challenges
“We face both external market challenges and internal systems challenges”, says Mr. Kenneth Lo – Chief Executive Officer of Crystal Group. “Externally, our Customers strive for speed, quality and increased numbers of quick response orders, with reduced production lead-times and order lot sizes. Internally, a lack of integrated Production Planning and Control tools has caused us, until now, to rely heavily on inefficient spreadsheet and paper-based methods for order projection and planning processes”.
The Solution
This combination of internal opportunities for improvement and strong market need, caused Crystal to undertake a prudent evaluation in the market and finally to select Fastreact as their Production Planning & Control solution to integrate at the front-end with their SAP ERP System and with GPro shop-floor control system at the back. “By selecting Fastreact to work with our SAP business system and GPro shop-floor system, we have selected the Best of Breed applications to work together to provide the total solution for all our business needs. Fastreact provides a highly visual, flexible and interactive means of manipulating all the essential planning elements of capacity, raw materials availability and critical path, in a single integrated solution,” says Mr. Sherman Lau, President of Elegance Industrial Company Limited. “The project started in August 2006 and piloted in the Cotton Knit Division (Elegance Industrial Company Limited). By adding Fastreact to our existing systems, we intend to be second to none as far as any manufacturer anywhere in the world to meet reduced lead times, whilst ensuring profitability and growth”, says Mr. Sherman Lau.
The Conclusion
Simon Gibson, Managing Director of Fast React Asia comments “In the modern Apparel environment, improved visibility, coordination and flexibility are essential. High quality, industry specific solutions can help Apparel manufacturers to ‘rise to the lead time challenge’ and to respond much more effectively. As specialist providers only to the Garment industry and related sectors, our ongoing, industry specific investment in Fastreact ensures that our solutions evolve continuously to meet the ever changing needs of the industry. We are delighted to work with Crystal Group and look forward to identifying real business benefits through this exciting project.”
