About Fast React Systems

We are a Global supplier of Planning and Sourcing Solutions, specifically designed for and used extensively by companies involved in Apparel, Textiles, Footwear and associated industries.

The FastReact range of products offers highly visual, easy to use solutions, which focus on delivering 'competitive advantage' in difficult and volatile industry sectors, through improved visibility, coordination and control.

Today Fast React Systems develops, installs and supports software in over 38 countries worldwide. FastReact is installed in over 250 customers globally; some of whom include All Saints, Reiss, Burberry, J Barbour & Sons and Mulberry.

With an intimate knowledge of the fashion industry at every level, FRS offers industry specific expertise and consultancy advice to companies facing the numerous demands of the modern Fashion supply chain.

To remain competitive in today's fast moving Fashion supply chain, it is essential for companies to achieve effective planning. Yet most businesses do not have good planning tools. The architecture of most business (ERP) systems, even the most established industry names, is incompatible with the need for fast and flexible planning. This is evidenced by the fact that the majority of companies struggle on with manual and spreadsheet based systems for planning.

The ever increasing pressures on the industry for flexibility, speed to market and cost efficiency, demand that this situation must change. Increasingly, businesses are realising that their existing manual methods simply cannot cope.

The FastReact Software

Whether manufacturing or sourcing, FastReact provides a highly visual, easy to use tool, for planning and monitoring all new styles/orders from initial concept to delivery

FastReact solutions provide:

• Rapid implementation with minimal disruption
• Strong business benefits, delivered quickly
• A rapid return on investment and ongoing savings
• Used well, FastReact solutions provide not simply good solutions for planning, but a powerful management tool to deliver significant performance improvements.
• FastReact sits at the heart of a business and provides a control tower view of all styles/orders and a central point of reference for information.
• This approach promotes improved coordination between departments through 'one version of the truth', whilst significantly reducing manual processes (spreadsheet and typed documents, emails, telephone calls)
• Above all, FastReact offers the ability to achieve competitive advantage in an increasingly challenging market!!

FastReact offers a modular solution, which can be configured to meet the needs of each business and which can operate either on a stand alone basis or integrated to other, existing systems.

Some of the modules offered include:

Supply Chain Management: Software that uses graphical planning boards to show order status & clearly identify any problems through the use of a visual alert mechanism. FastReact also provides efficient supply chain collaboration, critical path control, capacity management & material requirements planning to ensure that orders are delivered on time.

Production Planning and Control:Software that uses graphical planning boards to show order status & clearly identify any problems through the use of a visual alert mechanism. Any secondary capacity constraints, material requirements and pre-production critical path activities can be simultaneously monitored to determine the most effective production plan & ensure that orders are delivered on time.

Merchandise Planning and Control: Software that uses graphical planning boards to show the development status of a new range & clearly identify any problems through the use of a visual alert mechanism. Using a flexible product hierarchy and effective roll-up/roll-down mechanisms the range building process can monitor actual performance by category. Detailed cost build up & critical path management are used to ensure that the new range is launched on time and on budget.

Typical Benefits

Fastreact can help your business in the following ways:

• Reduced late delivery charges, typically by up to 20%
• Reduced air freight and reprocessing costs by up to 50%
• Reduced inventory levels, by up to 50%
• Improved productivity, typically by up to 5%
• Improved order fulfillment, hence increasing sales by up to 10%