MBM Group increases fabric use by 1% and automates 72% of its cutting room processes with FastReactFabric(formerly Intellocut)

2. No visibility over fabric tracking and consumption

Fabric is the major constituent in the total cost of a garment and if managed well, can help to boost the profitability of a manufacturing business. MBM Group needed a digital tool that could track fabric usage and wastage in real-time and enable informed decision making for the business.

Solution:

With the help of FastReactFabric, MBM can now have visibility over every inch of the fabric use that goes from the fabric warehouse to the cutting room, along with a track of the fabric utilised, wasted and saved.

FastReactFabric helps to deliver actionable insights in intuitive reports for stakeholders that are downloaded in a single click and used to arrive at informed data-backed decisions.

3. End bit management and utilisation

In order to ensure minimum wastage in a garment factory, it becomes really essential to do proper scrutiny of fabric consumption and tracking of end-bits. The lack of fabric tracking in the factory and unstructured end-bit management resulted in lesser visibility of end-bits and consequently, higher end-bit wastage and poor fabric utilisation.

Solution:

FastReactFabric’s real-time data recording and advanced tech stack enables the person laying on the cutting floor to have visibility of the end-bit data for better fabric planning. FastReactFabric provides real-time lay re-plan suggestion whenever the end-bits are enough to complete the order.

Additionally, the Coats Digital team helped MBM to set-up the process of end-bit tagging and sorting which made it easier to spot the end-bit suggested by the system for use in a particular order. As a result, MBM Group has  increased their fabric utilisation by 1%.

4. Inter-department communication

In order to ensure maximum flexibility and productivity in the cutting room, it becomes essential for the cutting department to have effective inter-department communication to keep the correct information flow and exchange of data. Prior to the installation of FastReactFabric in the factory, most of the communication with departments such as CAD, merchandising, fabric warehouse and fabric inspection, was done either via email or manually generated spreadsheets and reports.

As a result, the MBM team had to skim through large amounts of data to track the status of each purchase order, with multiple purchase orders running at multiple stages.

Solution:

As part of FastReactFabric training and implementation, the Coats Digital team set standard processes which enabled MBM to communicate in more hassle-free ways using FastReactFabric generated reports. The communication of marker ratios between the planning and CAD team is automated using FastReactFabric’s Marker Plan Report.

Similarly, the communication between the merchandising team, planning team and MBM Group management was made easy using FastReactFabric’s Fabric Reconciliation Report which provides an order-wise fabric summary with running wastage and consumption.