Son Ha Garment JSC achieves 10% efficiency gain with GSDCost & is on target to further reduce production time by 50%

The Challenge – Inaccurate data led to inefficiencies

Manually created purchase orders often got lost and cost forecasts based on inaccurate historical data resulted in reduced efficiencies and wasted people hours.

Prior to implementing Coats Digital’s cost optimisation solution, GSDCost, Son Ha Garment JSC suffered poor data visibility, lost purchase orders and complicated cost negotiations with customers due to the fact that its cost, sourcing and planning processes were manually created and stored across a variety of sources within different departments. The company found that its capacity and cost planning reports were often inaccurate because data was based purely on historical experiences and the information was not easy to find by all members of the team who needed it.

The lack of accurate costing data consequently, not only made it difficult to reach a definitive agreement with customers regarding order quotations, but its analogue approach also meant that it was wasting hundreds of people hours on unnecessary manual processes.

The Solution 

Son Ha Garment required a standardised solution that would accurately record Standard Minute Values through effective, standard motion digitised codes so it could optimise its costing processes, enhance manufacturing efficiencies, introduce achievable performance targets to improve staff motivation and performance, and ultimately increase sales to optimise its profitability.

Coats Digital’s GSDCost 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.

Coats Digital’s enhanced feature of a globalised Fair Wage Tool combines the international standard time for any given style, with detailed factory efficiencies, contracted hours and the fair living wage for the country (data provided by the Fair Wage Network). This added tool enables brands and manufacturers to quickly agree the fair living wage allowance for any given garment, in any factory in the world.

GSDCost utilises the latest cloud software architecture to provide a highly intuitive, secure and scalable SaaS solution, which helps achieve cost optimisation and sustainable improvements in productivity.