MAS Active ties-up with Fastreact
MAS Active, part of the Sri Lankan based MAS Holdings, has chosen
Fastreact to provide its production planning and control functions,
including both capacity and critical path management, working with and
interfaced to its SAP business system.
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Workers at a garment factory. Picture by Sumanachandra
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MAS Holdings in design-to-delivery solutions intimates sports
apparels for the world’s leading brands. The largest in the region, MAS
operates 28 world class manufacturing facilities, two design studios and
a sourcing and innovation arm across seven countries.
Backed by a strong raw material supply base the group employs over
41,000 people. MAS Active is the fastest growing sports and active
fashion wear manufacturer in the region servicing top brands Nike, GAP,
adidas, Victoria’s Secret and numerous other global market brands.
With a manufacturing base of some 12 facilities, 10 in Sri Lanka, and
two in India, the MAS Active division employs over 14,000 people and
manufactures around 25 million garments per annum within its Sri Lankan
facilities alone.
Managing Director Shirendra Lawrence, said. “As demand for much
greater product complexity and dramatically shorter lead-times
increases, we realised that our existing, excessively manual methods
would simply not cope with these new conditions.
Given the complex nature of our products, we had to find a ‘World
Best’ solution, which would work with and integrate to SAP and which
could cope with multi-level planning, also multi-stage and
multi-component processing, including our extensive printing and
embellishment requirements.
The solution needed to cope with either centralised or decentralised
processes, also planning ‘live’ across multiple locations, yet remain
easy to use, responsive and flexible: That’s a tall order!”
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