Hong Kong (HK) 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 togetherto 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.”
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