The critical importance of fabric planning

Unprecedented volatility, increasingly fragmented order books and a move to on-demand production, is driving greater complexity and margin pressure in the fashion supply chain. With fabric typically accounting for 50-70% of garment cost and wastage in the cutting room stubbornly high in the face of more styles and lower MOQs, the need for fast, accurate estimation of fabric consumption at the buying stage, and planning and execution of cutting is critical to increasing productivity, reducing fabric wastage and protecting margins.

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Improve productivity

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Reduce fabric wastage

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Increase profit margins

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Why change?

Automate and optimise business critical processes

The largely manual and disconnected systems used to manage the complex (and often incomplete) variables which determine fabric utilisation are labour intense and inaccurate resulting in lost time and excess fabric wastage. Manufacturers need to automate and optimise these business critical processes, producing production grade markers and cut plans to drive accurate fabric estimation at the buying stage, with seamless CAD integration, and automate the entire cut order planning and execution process, with real time visibility and reporting.

Typical business benefits

Automating and optimising the estimation of fabric consumption, together with fabric cut planning and execution, drives significant, measurable and sustainable improvements in operational and financial performance. Typical business benefits include:

2 − 5 %

Reduction in fabric cost

90 %

Automation of fabric buying & fabric cutting processes

100 %

End to End Fabric planning

FastReactFabric - Combine Fabric Cutting and buying

Accelerate your Fabric Cutting and Buying Operations with FastReactFabric

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Combine Fabric buying and cutting solution for optimised fabric use

FastReactFabric is a fabric utilization planning solution that uniquely connects your fabric buying and fabric cutting operations into a single platform. This combination is the only way to gain the insights you need to track real-time fabric usage and wastage and efficiently plan for complex styles and colorways.

The result? Reduce fabric cost, Improve fabric use, boost efficiency and increase profit. 

FastReactFabric is fast to implement, intuitive to use and proven to deliver significant and measurable improvements in delivery performance, productivity and quality, supporting a typical return on investment of less than 12 months.

What our customers say

Delivering real results

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Crystal Martin International Group selects FastReactFabric to automate and optimise their fabric cutting

FastReactFabric’s advanced cut-plan, automation of cutting execution helped the factory team to reduce their planning time by 40%.

Theory and practical training of FastReactFabric solution in Hoodvian factory, Sri Lanka

Hoodvian Group automates fabric planning and tracking with FastReactFabric

Manually filled lay slips were replaced by system-generated digital lay slips, which reduced the team’s manual effort and saved time. Consequently, the factory team was able to automate 70% of their processes.

Duc Hanh production floor

Duc Hanh reduces fabric wastage by almost 2% with FastReactFabric

Waste reduction, real-time planning, fabric optimisation, smarter buying, and BOM savings are the key benefits FastReactFabric has delivered for Vietnam’s Duc Hanh

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Epyllion Group reduces fabric buying cost by 2% with FastReactFabric

Using FastReactFabric, Epyllion Group automated 70% of their fabric booking processes, thus saving 2% on their fabric buying cost

Viet Vuong and Coats Digital team

Viet Vuong optimised its fabric utilisation rate to over 98% with FastReactFabric

By automating fabric buying and cutting processes, Viet Vuong significantly reduced its fabric wastage to under 2%

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Smart Fabric Planning with FastReactFabric

Stop wasting fabric and start increasing profit. Buy fabric with accuracy and cut with confidence.

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