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Kingslake and Fast React assist Christy Lanka Apparels introduce Lean Manufacturing
Christy Lanka, one of Sri Lanka’s leading suppliers of apparel to Marks & Spencer and a strong, collaborative supplier to Next is recognised as a competent outfit able to respond to customer demand, deliver on time and be able to win orders in a world where other manufacturing options are readily available and extremely competitive.
Mr. Dilshan Fernando, the young and energetic Managing Director who is the brain child of Christy Holdings Sri Lanka, says “We apparel manufacturers in Sri Lanka need to react to our customer’s demands rapidly while being profitable in a consumer driven world. With fashion trends becoming more exclusive and complicated, order quantities becoming smaller and varied, styles required on shelf faster and on time and margins being driven to rock bottom, we need to be on top of all our manufacturing processes to be world class.”
“Christy Lanka from its inception has always believed in giving the best and most appropriate tools to empower its employees,” says Fernando “With Fastreact we intend to be second to none as far as any factory big or small anywhere in the world to meet reduced lead times while ensuring profitability and growth. Fastreact lends to our initiatives of implementing Just in Time Inventory and Lean Manufacturing practices. It also caters to the requirements of capacity planning on our very own embroidery & printing plant.”
Andrew Brown Managing Director, Fast React Systems said, “We concentrate only on this industry and focus on providing Best Practice ‘can’t-do-without’ management tools, which provide complete visibility to all decision makers in the business. Capacity planning, proactive pre and post-production critical path and full visibility of raw materials is what Fastreact brings together to empower an apparel manufacturer. This process eliminates separate spreadsheets and manual activities, freeing up valuable time to identify and act on issues to improve business performance. Fastreact also integrates easily to any business system be it a home grown ERP or the most complex multi-national ERP implementation.”
With more than 200 sites worldwide in over 25 countries Fastreact has within the last 15 years become the leading planning tool for the apparel industry. “Our job is to study and respond to the ever changing demands of the garment industry and to provide planning solutions which all our customers to stay at the leading edge of competitiveness in the apparel supply chain. Most importantly, Fastreact is not just a planning solution, but a powerful management tool, which if used well, builds powerful visibility, coordination and flexibility into a business.” says Brown.
Dr. Dharmavasan Managing Director, Kingslake says, “We see a huge paradigm shift in our local manufacturers now introducing best of breed IT tools to manage their entire enterprise rather than depend only on manual or office related products. Most of the early adopters of IT solutions attribute their accelerated growth to having appropriate technology in place.” Kingslake, which pioneered ERP to the local manufacturers, has implemented complex IT systems to large local businesses and markets and supports Fastreact in Sri Lanka.
