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Fibre2Fashion
28-05-2025
- Business
- Fibre2Fashion
Manufacturas Eliot boosts digital shift with Coats Digital's VisionPLM
Coats Digital is pleased to announce that that Manufacturas Eliot, one of Colombia's leading fashion textile groups, has selected VisionPLM to advance its digital transformation strategy. The solution will optimise product lifecycle management across its portfolio of brands—Patprimo, Seven Seven, Ostu, and Atmos—enhancing collaboration, streamlining operations, and enabling greater speed to market. Manufacturas Eliot, a Colombian fashion group, has selected Coats Digital's VisionPLM to boost digital transformation across its brands. The platform will enhance collaboration, speed up product development, and streamline operations. VisionPLM aims to improve agility, traceability, and decision-making, supporting Eliot's drive for innovation and sustainable growth. Founded in 1957, Manufacturas Eliot is a vertically integrated manufacturer producing over 20 million garments annually. Renowned for delivering high-quality, accessible fashion, the group continues to invest in technologies that support sustainable growth and operational excellence. The implementation of VisionPLM demonstrates Elliot's strong commitment to end-to-end digitalisation across the value chain. By introducing VisionPLM, Eliot aims to improve product development agility, reduce time-to-market, and ensure seamless communication across cross-functional teams. Juliana Pérez, Design Director, Seven Seven, commented: 'From the design team's point of view, we're really excited about implementing VisionPLM, as it will allow us to manage our collections in a more structured way and collaborate efficiently with other departments.' Angela Quevedo, Planning Director, Manufacturas Eliot, added: 'VisionPLM will significantly improve the planning and coordination of our operations by enabling a more accurate flow of information and reducing response times across the supply chain. It will also help us optimise processes and accelerate decision-making.' Tailored specifically for the fashion industry, VisionPLM integrates tools that boost development speed, improve traceability, and enhance decision-making. By centralising design, sourcing, and supplier collaboration in one digital platform, the solution enables a streamlined, transparent, and responsive approach to managing collections. Oscar González, Coats Digital – LATAM, said: 'We're proud to continue supporting Manufacturas Eliot on its digital transformation journey. The adoption of VisionPLM marks a key milestone in advancing its fashion innovation strategy—enabling faster, smarter decision-making and more agile collaboration across teams and suppliers. Its helping to build a future-ready, connected operation that's fully aligned to the demands of today's fashion market.' Note: The headline, insights, and image of this press release may have been refined by the Fibre2Fashion staff; the rest of the content remains unchanged. Fibre2Fashion News Desk (HU)
Fibre2Fashion
13-05-2025
- Business
- Fibre2Fashion
Join the webinar to explore tech solutions for fashion manufacturing
Coats Digital, in collaboration with Fibre2Fashion, will conduct a webinar titled 'Fashion Manufacturing: Turning Challenges into Opportunities with Technology' on May 28, 2025, at 2:30 PM IST. This insightful virtual fireside chat aims to explore how digital transformation can help manufacturers stay competitive amid mounting industry pressures. As the global fashion sector faces rising tariffs, soaring input costs, fragmented order volumes, and tighter margins, the need for innovation has become urgent. Traditional manufacturing methods are being rendered obsolete by shifting consumer demands for transparency, ethics, and sustainability across the supply chain. The webinar will explore how fashion manufacturers can stay competitive and profitable in the current turbulent landscape. Coats Digital and F2F will host a virtual fireside chat titled 'Fashion Manufacturing: Turning Challenges into Opportunities with Technology' on May 28. Industry experts will explore how digital tools can help fashion manufacturers cut costs, improve efficiency, boost agility, and build sustainable, future-ready ecosystems amid rising tariffs, higher input costs, and evolving consumer demands. The webinar will feature Khomkrit Hemrit, EVP of production at Nan Yang Garment (Thailand), and Karthik Duraisamy, director – sales & customer success, South Asia at Coats Digital. Together, they will discuss how technology can offer manufacturers tangible benefits—such as cutting costs, improving efficiency, simulating production planning with real-time alerts, enhancing method-time-cost standards, and establishing accurate Standard Minute Values (SMVs). Attendees will also learn how digital tools can boost agility, increase responsiveness to market changes, and ensure return on investment (ROI), all while laying the foundation for a sustainable and future-ready manufacturing ecosystem. As industry challenges escalate, this session offers manufacturers a practical roadmap to turn disruption into opportunity. Click here to register for the webinar. Fibre2Fashion News Desk (KD)
Fibre2Fashion
01-05-2025
- Business
- Fibre2Fashion
Coats Digital's GSDCost wins silver at UK Digital Excellence Awards
Coats Digital, the innovative software arm of Coats Group, is delighted to announce that its industry-leading time-cost benchmarking solution, GSDCost, has won the Standout Platform/Technology/Tool Silver Award at this year's UK Digital Excellence Awards. Coats Digital's GSDCost platform won the silver award for Standout Platform/Technology/Tool at the UK Digital Excellence Awards. Celebrated for driving innovation in fashion manufacturing, GSDCost standardises cost benchmarks, supports ethical labour practices, and enhances supply chain transparencyâ€'helping brands boost efficiency, reduce waste, and future-proof operations. Merged with the UK Digital Growth Awards this year, the UK Excellence Awards are organised by Don't Panic, international awards and event specialists accredited by the Awards Standards Council – Awards Trust Mark. Aimed at showcasing innovators and forward-thinkers who are inspiring the digital industry, the UK Digital Excellence Awards represent the pinnacle of success in the UK digital landscape. They recognise organisations that break benchmarks, set new standards, and achieve exceptional growth goals. The awards categories span the entire digital spectrum, celebrating everything from technical brilliance to long-term strategic success. Kunal Kapur, Managing Director, Coats Digital, said: 'Winning the Standout Platform/Technology/Tool Silver Award at this year's UK Digital Excellence Awards is a proud moment for everyone at Coats Digital. This award win reflects the incredible innovation, hard work, and purpose-driven mindset of our entire team. GSDCost was built to solve some of the fashion industry's biggest challenges—from inaccurate costing to unethical labour practices—and to see it acknowledged on such a prestigious stage is deeply rewarding. Winning this award is an endorsement of the very real difference GSDCost is making to businesses around the world.' Coats Digital's flagship SaaS platform, GSDCost, was designed to revolutionise how garment manufacturers establish production costs, plan capacity, and meet ethical standards. At its core, GSDCost standardises Standard Minute Values (SMVs) using scientifically backed, motion-based time codes. The platform establishes International Standard Time Benchmarks that replace manual and inconsistent cost calculations with precise, consistent, and fact-based metrics. This creates a level playing field for all vendors and brands, regardless of location or product complexity. From enabling real-time collaboration across global supply chains to ensuring fair wage compliance and reducing environmental waste, GSDCost addresses the root causes of inefficiency in fashion manufacturing and cost forecasting. It replaces fragmented workflows with a single source of truth—empowering companies to boost profitability while delivering on their corporate social responsibility goals. Adrian Elliott, Divisional CEO, Apparel, Coats Group, added: 'At Coats Digital, we are driven by the belief that technology can—and should—make the fashion supply chain more agile, efficient, and sustainable. GSDCost is helping brands and manufacturers work smarter, reduce waste, and build more transparent and responsible production networks. This award validates that we're not just building great software—we're helping to future-proof an entire industry.' Note: The headline, insights, and image of this press release may have been refined by the Fibre2Fashion staff; the rest of the content remains unchanged. Fibre2Fashion News Desk (HU)
Fibre2Fashion
23-04-2025
- Business
- Fibre2Fashion
Cotton Club (BD) boosts profits with Coats Digital's GSDCost
Coats Digital is delighted to announce that one of Bangladesh's leading garment manufacturers Cotton Club (bd) Ltd., has reduced the time it takes to produce its core styles by 25.6%, resulting in a productivity increase of 5% since its adoption of GSDCost in August 2021. The company has subsequently increased its profit margins by a staggering 0.45 million USD annually as a result of a 90 percent increase in costing accuracy; a reduction in material wastage of 10 percent; a decrease in unnecessary overtime costs of 8 percent and an increase in on-time delivery performance (OTDP) of 7 percent. The company has also been able to confidently take on more varied and complex, new order requests since the GSDCost implementation, whilst significantly enhancing customer loyalty at the same time. Cotton Club (BD) Ltd boosted productivity by 5 per cent and improved SMVs by 25.6 per cent after adopting Coats Digital's GSDCost. With a 90 per cent increase in costing accuracy, it reduced overtime and material waste, raised OTDP by 7 per cent, and added ~$0.45 million to annual profits. The tool also enhanced communication, planning, and capacity to handle complex orders. Founded in 2006, Cotton Club (BD) Ltd. is a premier composite garment manufacturer in Bangladesh, dedicated to delivering innovative, high-quality garments worldwide. The company operates a vertically integrated operation which includes all knitting, dyeing, cutting, printing, embroidery, and sewing & finishing processes. Cotton Club (bd) consists of four companies, including Cotton Clout (BD) Ltd., Tropical Knitex Ltd., and Cotton Clothing (BD) Ltd., which specialises in knitted items for all ages and underwear production. The company employments a 15,000 strong workforce, operates 6,800 sewing machines ,boosts an annual turnover of 268 million USD and is targeted to reach 300 million this fiscal year. Its customers include: Kiabi, Inditex Brands , Primark, Kontoor Brands, Kohls, Target USA, Ernsting Family, Bon Prix, Being Human and Forever 21, among many others. In 2023, Cotton Club (BD) expanded its operations with a state-of-the-art seamless garment manufacturing facility in Gazipur, Bangladesh, to ensure stringent, quality control measures are applied at every stage of the manufacturing process to meet the highest possible standards. The 260,800 square feet manufacturing facility is consequently equipped with advanced technology, ensuring that it consistently meets the latest industry and environmental demands. As a result, it has achieved the following certificates and accreditations: BSCI, WRAP, SEDEX, SCAN, ICS, Better work, GOTS & OCS, GRS & RCS, European Flax, and is ISO 14001:2015, COC, LEED (Gold) Certified. Before adopting GSDCost, Cotton Club (bd) Ltd. relied on outdated historical data spread across multiple Excel spreadsheets for cost and capacity forecasting. These manual processes made it difficult to update information in real time across costing, capacity planning, and manufacturing teams, leading to inefficiencies and costly errors. Without accurate Standard Minute Values (SMVs) to determine Cost to Make (CM) production times, the company struggled with poor costing visibility and unreliable capacity planning. This often resulted in last-minute realisations that production floor capacity was insufficient, leading to missed delivery deadlines, increased overhead costs, and customer dissatisfaction. At the same time, the lack of accurate data caused Cotton Club to turn down new business opportunities, mistakenly believing it lacked the resources to fulfil them—when, in reality, it had the capacity to take on more orders. These challenges created significant workflow disruptions, making it difficult to manage short lead-time orders and maintain a smooth, efficient supply chain. Md. Zubayer Mondol, Director & Owner, Cotton Club (bd) Ltd. said: 'Running a factory without accurate costing and capacity data is like flying blind. Before GSDCost, we relied on outdated spreadsheets that gave us no real-time visibility. We were making big decisions based on guesswork, which sometimes meant we turned away orders we could have handled or, worse, overcommitted and had to scramble to meet deadlines. This led to costly overtime, missed delivery dates, and frustrated customers. It was a constant struggle to balance efficiency with profitability." Since adopting GSDCost, Cotton Club (bd)has seen significant improvements across its whole operation. By successfully establishing international standard time benchmarks based on standard motion codes and predetermined times, the sales, costing, planning and manufacturing teams at Cotton Club have been able to communicate seamlessly using the same language, based on a scientific method for correctly analysing manufacturing costs. Md. Zubayer Mondol, Director & Owner, Cotton Club (bd) Ltd said: " Coats Digital's GSDCost Software has significantly improved the accuracy of our work measurement, ensuring that we can track projects with precision. Its features have streamlined our workflows, making operations more efficient. As a result, we've seen better cost control.' Coats Digital's GSD Cost method analysis and pre-determined times solution is widely acknowledged as the de-facto international standard across the sewn products industry. The solution supports a more collaborative, transparent and sustainable supply chain, in which brands and manufacturers establish and optimise 'International Standard Time Benchmarks' using standard motion codes and predetermined times. This use of a common language and standards supports accurate cost prediction, fact-based negotiation, and a more efficient garment manufacturing process, while concurrently delivering on CSR commitments. Golam Mahbub Sikder, Customer Success Manager, Coats Digital said: 'We are absolutely thrilled to see Cotton Club achieve such outstanding results with GSDCost. The company's remarkable improvements in efficiency, cost accuracy, and profitability highlight the vital role of scientifically backed, data-driven solutions in today's fashion industry. With growing pressure to produce complex styles faster while maintaining competitive pricing, manufacturers must embrace digital transformation to stay ahead. Cotton Club has done exactly that—enhancing capacity planning, streamlining costing, and boosting production efficiencies to become a more agile, competitive, and future-ready business. We are proud to be playing such an important role in Cotton Club (bd)'s digital transformation journey and look forward to supporting its continued success.' Key Benefits and ROI for Cotton Club (bd) Ltd. Costing accuracy increased by 90% Core style Improvement of SMVs of 25.6% Increased productivity by 5% Reduction in overtime costs of 8% Reduction in material waste of 10% Increase in OTDP by 7% Annual profit increase of 0.25 million USD Improved profit margin at product costing Enhanced communication between management and team members Increased team members' earning capacity with realistic productivity bonus system Ability to deal with complex orders Fact-based stable manufacturing costs Note: The headline, insights, and image of this press release may have been refined by the Fibre2Fashion staff; the rest of the content remains unchanged. Fibre2Fashion News Desk (HU)
