As Brazil's leading textile company specializing in women's apparel manufacturing, Rosa Maria needed to gain control over its production capacity in order to improve business efficiency, and to make its production process more agile and flexible so as to meet the requirements of both local and global markets. Since the company had to manage a complex environment, working with more than 45 different suppliers and producing over 300,000 items per month, Rosa Maria's director Onesia Liotto stated that they needed an advanced planning and scheduling (APS) system to overcome this complexity in the production process.
The DELMIA Ortems APS | Production Planning and Scheduling solution was selected because of its advanced capabilities for planning and controlling production flows. The implementation of this solution aimed to increase production capacity, visibility, flexibility and coordination in a way that would help Rosa Maria achieve a global position. With the implementation of DELMIA Ortems, production time was cut in half, reducing product delivery time from 90 days to 45 days. Increasing production capacity, balancing workloads and improving inventory control both on its own production line and on those of its suppliers helped Rosa Maria achieve significant gains, reducing total inventory by 37% and work-in-process stock by 23%.
