Italian Textile Manufacturer Loro Piana Chooses Quintiq to Improve Productivity and Delivery Performance

‘S-HERTOGENBOSCH, The Netherlands, June 20, 2011 -

Quintiq, a leading provider of href="www.quintiq.com/solutions/advanced-planning-and-scheduling.aspx">
Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) solutions, today
announced that Loro Piana, the Italian textile and luxury goods
producer, has chosen href="www.quintiq.com/industries/manufacturing/manufacturing-software-solutions/tactical-planning.aspx">
Quintiq Company Planner to schedule machines and personnel in
its finishing department. Loro Piana Textile Division will use the
Quintiq solution to increase productivity in this core department
and to improve its delivery performance. TRIM Informatica will be
integration partner.

Providing demanding clients with high
quality fabrics

Loro Piana Textile Division has been supplying the finest wool
fabrics to the most exclusive clients for more than six
generations. Loro Piana produces textiles in its own facilities in
Italy and the finishing department is where Loro Piana’s expert
workforce gives the luxurious fabrics the refinement that places
them above competitors’ products.

The production of such fine textiles is done in small batches,
in complicated, multi-staged processes according to the features
and characteristics of each fabric. Each piece of fabric is
considered a single work order and routing the numerous work orders
among the benches and skilled professionals is extremely complex.
Difficulties in balancing the workflows cause bottlenecks,
impairing delivery performance and reducing the department’s
productivity.

Loro Piana requires top quality
planning solution

For a long time, managers at Loro Piana had been looking for a
href="www.quintiq.com/industries/manufacturing.aspx">manufacturing
planning solution that could support them in href="www.quintiq.com/industries/manufacturing/manufacturing-software-solutions/tactical-planning/benefits.aspx">
improving delivery performance and productivity while providing
a good return on investment.

Quintiq Company Planner is designed to provide manufacturers
like Loro Piana with a comprehensive solution for managing href="www.quintiq.com/solutions/production-planning-and-scheduling/production-capacity-planning.aspx">
capacity planning and material management. By improving
visibility and transparency throughout the supply chain, Company
Planner enables informed order acceptance decisions that take into
account material availability, sales budgets, and resource
capacities. Quintiq was able to demonstrate to Loro Piana how
Company Planner can help significantly improve productivity and
delivery performance by balancing the work flows.

“Quintiq inspired us with its proof of concept. It was
impressive how quickly they were able to model our world including
the rules, constraints and relevant resources with their solution,”
commented Mr. Nicola Gussetti, Operations Director at Loro Piana
Textile Division. “We immediately saw the advantages Quintiq could
bring us.”

Manage bottlenecks and increase
productivity

With Quintiq, Loro Piana will gain visibility into the flow of
the work orders between the machines and insight into the reasons
for the bottlenecks. More importantly, Quintiq will schedule work
orders so as to minimize these bottlenecks. And by coordinating
delivery dates with fabric features, the finishing department will
experience increased productivity.

Francois Eijgelshoven, Director Business Unit Manufacturing at
Quintiq commented: “Loro Piana is our second recent Quintiq
implementation in Italy, after Acciaieria ABS. I believe this is a
good indication that the fast-growing Italian market is ripe for
advanced solutions like Quintiq that can solve complex planning
puzzles. Quintiq software is designed for planning manufacturing
processes like those used to produce Loro Piana’s high-quality
fabrics.”

As a result of winning the Loro Piana contract and the growing
interest among Italian companies in advanced planning solutions,
Quintiq has opened a strategic sales and operations office in
Northern Italy. This office will provide local companies with
excellent customer service and support in the Italian language.
 

About Loro Piana

www.loropiana.com/ita/company/intro

About TRIM Informatica

www.triminformatica.it/soluzioni/quintiq/

About Quintiq

www.quintiq.com/about-us/company

More Information: Quintiq, Robin Sands, Global Marketing Communications Manager, robin.sands at quintiq.com, +31(0)73-691-0739

+31(0)73-691-0739