Song Hong was established in Vietnam in 1988. Since then, it has grown into one of the country’s top 50 most stable companies in the Forbes Vietnam ranking system. Song Hong has 6 garment production factories, a padding production and quilting factory, a bedding production factory and various workshop factories.
With a production capacity of 4.5 million pieces of garment per month, Song Hong supplies to many famous brands and retailers such as Nike, Levi’s, Calvin Klein, DKNY, Colombia Sportswear and Walmart.
During its operation, a large-scale enterprise like Song Hong encounters many difficulties in business management, such as:
- Optimise the whole group capacity utilisation to achieve CRD (Customer Request Date), Improve productivity with better control of materials based on the production plan and reduce any last-minute changes
- Improve productivity with better control of materials based on the production plan and reduce any last-minute changes
- Reduce bottlenecks in cutting, seam seal and other value-adding processes
- Reduce staff’s workload by improving speed and accuracy of communication, coordination and reportinImprove productivity with better control of materials based on the production plan and reduce any last-minute changes.
Song Hong Garment started implementing
FastReactPlan in July 2019 and achieved production planning go live within 4 months for phase 1, which was conducted in Song Hong headquarters along with 2 factories in Nam Dinh city.
Song Hong utilised FastReactPlan’s detailed macro and micro capacity sewing planning boards to manage production capacities, and using the pull system principle, generate T&A target dates based on the production plan.
With the good discipline of the project team and involvement of senior management, Song Hong continued to complete phase 2 go live in 3 more factories in April 2019. The total project timeline took only 9 months to implement FastReactPlan in 5 factories.
The results that FastReactPlan brings are really positive. According to Mr. Hung Nguyen Van, Song Hong Master Planner, p
lanning and coordination are easier with FastReactPlan. It now takes only a few hours to create, review progress and adjust the plan. As a result, the company have seen a 20% reduction in planning time which has given him the opportunity to focus on aligning all departments to ensure the plan is agreed upon and then achieved.
With FastReactPlan the company have seen a 20% reduction in planning time which has given the Director Board opportunity to focus on aligning all departments to ensure the plan is agreed upon and then achieved.In addition, management can get all the information needed from FastReactPlan without asking for reports from staff. By checking FastReactPlan’s Web KPI Dashboard, management can quickly and easily understand the current status of all factory’s capacity utilisation, forwarding planning, production and delivery status. It was difficult to get information to manage factory costs before we installed FastReactPlan, but now I can get key reports via the system which provides me with sewing line profitability and other necessary details.
