27 May 2022, Mumbai:
Vertical Knits Adopts Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan to Meet Increased Volume and Order Complexities Due to Rapidly Changing Consumer Demands. FastReactPlan was chosen to digitize manual planning processes and provide a unified version of the truth to reduce raw material inventories and costly manufacturing variances in order to effectively meet more challenging customer requirements.
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Coats Digital is delighted to announce that leading sports apparel manufacturer, Vertical Knits SA de CV, has selected Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan solution to digitally transform its manual planning processes into a unified single view, so that the company can optimise production processes, significantly reduce waste, promptly accommodate unexpected style changes and rapidly respond to emerging new consumer trends.
Established in 2003, Vertical Knits, S.A. de C.V. is a vertically integrated apparel manufacturer specialising in the full packages for renowned global athletic and lifestyle brands, such as Nike, Converse, VF Corporation, Tommy Hilfiger, Lacoste, and Fanatics. With factories in Baca and Tizimin Yucatán, in Mexico, Vertical Knits employees over 3500 people in the region exporting to more than 21 countries.
A Nike supplier, Vertical Knits has baked-in sustainability targets at every step of the production process to ensure the safest working conditions and highest environmental standards are met with regards to water waste and energy reduction. It is Fair Trade certified and has secured the Global Recycled Standard, Global Organic Textile Standard, and Better Cotton Standard.
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The company also works with Roadmap to Zero, the Higg Index, Social & Labor Convergence, and the Global Reporting Initiative, among many others, to actively support sustainability and corporate social responsibility drives worldwide.
Jorge Eduardo Kuri, CEO of Vertical Knits, said: Digitizing our company is much more than simply implementing a software solution. We also needed robust industry expertise to support a successful implementation and provide exemplary staff training so that the technology delivers benefits from go-live.
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