Coats Digital

Coats Digital is a global provider of specialist, technology-based solutions and industry best practice expertise for the fashion industry.

Coats Digital is the software business of Coats Group, the world’s leading industrial thread company and a trusted industry player. We leverage deep industry and technology expertise to create and deliver business critical software solutions which are proven to digitally transform the way fashion companies design, develop, cost, source, plan and manufacture.

Our apparel, footwear and textile specific solutions harness industry best practice and the latest technology to improve agility, speed to market, efficiency, transparency and sustainability, and are trusted by brands and manufacturers around the world.

Our Product Portfolio:

1. FastReactPlan - Helps in dynamic planning of garment production capacity, critical path and materials. FastReactPlan is the market-leading apparel production planning software solution, supporting a faster, more reliable order confirmation process and production plan which is optimised for delivery, speed and efficiency. The highly visual, flexible ‘drag and drop’ approach to planning allows effective master planning across multiple factories, as well as fast, detailed and accurate scheduling of manufacturing lines/machines. Critical pre-production activities and material requirements are dynamically driven by the latest plan on a LEAN ‘just in time’ basis, supporting the reduction of inventory and lead time.

2. GSDCost - The trusted Industry standard solution for garment costing optimisation, SMV Calculation and method improvement GSDCost is the international standard for establishing and optimising accurate method-time-cost benchmarks for sustainable garment cost optimisation and manufacturing excellence. GSDCost 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.

3. FastReactFabric - Stop wasting fabric and start increasing profit. FastReactFabric is a fabric 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.

4. Res.Q - The digital copy of your production shop floor Res.Q is a dynamic suite of digital solutions focused on the point of value creation, the factory shop floor, and leveraging deep industry expertise to deliver rapid data insights, improved decision making and better performance. Solutions are focused on fashion business critical manufacturing processes, from quality and machine management to skill management, line layout planning and production tracking, connecting and optimising the combined power of man, method and machine to power a more agile, sustainable and efficient factory.

5. VisionPLM - Fast, efficient and sustainable product development VisionPLM is a flexible, browser-based product lifecycle management solution (PLM) for garment and apparel manufacturers that streamlines and integrates the key pre-production processes required for a product to be fully approved and production ready. Supporting both ODM and OEM manufacturers, and configured to reflect industry best practice, VisionPLM provides ‘one version of the truth’: from design, material and product development (including tech packs), to sampling, approvals, costing and PO tracking.