Altın Iplik Corap Industry and Inc. which is the first integrated hosiery facility of Turkey, since its foundation in 1945 is maintaining its leadership at nylon hosiery field with 65% market share and the brands within it. At the same time, Atın Iplik which is the first plant being able to manufacture socks from polyamide chips, manufactures 6.000 tons of yarn with 12 million dozens of socks on 60.000 square meter closed area in Cerkezkoy. Altın Iplik that exports hosiery and yarn for above 40 countries in 5 continents carries out 60% of its export to Europe and Northern America countries.
With the solution system called Infor which offers service for over 73 thousands of people in 194 countries at software subject, Altın Iplik shortened its delivery time 60%. To increase cost savings, to make simple processes and to manage all work processes on a single, integrated and simple application and to control, Altın Iplik which prefers Infor LN ERP solution provides detailed inventory management for all stock including multi- measurement units, lot control and weigh control that aims to develop accuracy and visibility by this means.
Infor LN
Responsible Vice General Director of Altın Iplik Corap, Nahit Ozcan who said they were satisfied with Infor LN as it balances order requirements and optimizes and controls work orders and tasks at each stage also said ‘’ We simplified manufacture process by reducing error number as well as increased flexibility. It helped us to follow all materials and products clearer. Now, above 50.000 item is being watch in the system and in spite of this, error rates are under 1/ 40.000. Two week process from nylon raw material to packaged socks production fell only 3 days. We achieved to reduce stock level which equals to 2 months production capacity. With the warrant of 80% purchasing given by our customers, our stock is about at 1 month production capacity now’’.
Ozcan who stated that they believed to start for work by determining the best ways of handling the weak spot by carefully analyzing current processes, also said ‘’ We focused on key criterion which has a vital importance for our effectiveness. LN helped us to reduce delivery time to 2 weeks from 6 weeks. Process costs are followed with LN and company got 18% development at process costs by using this system’’.
World’s first hosiery integrated facility
Ozcan who gave information for Textile World Publication Group on manufacture processes of Altın Iplik, said ‘’ We are the firm which has the first hosiery integrated facility of the world. That’s to say, we manufacture yarn before polyamide chips and then we use this yarn on hosiery manufacture. Our process that starts with knitting gets ready for shipping with packaging’’. Ozcan who said they used Italian brand hosiery manufacture machines at their production also said ‘’ We care about using high technology by buying new machines or by modifying our current machines’’.
Ozcan who stated that they completed their investment they required in the midst of 2014 as being Altın Iplik and increased their production capacity about 40% when compared to 2013, he also said ‘’ Altın Iplik, as of today, is a firm which has 6.000 tons of yarn production with 12 million dozens of socks and works full capacity. Company exports 60% of its total capacity for especially European and Northern America countries. More than 1.500 people is employed within the company. Turnover of our group which carries out yarn and socks production is about 80 million Euro. We target a 15% more growth in 2015’’.
Integrated Solutions covering the whole process
Country Manager of Infor, Yasemin Giden who said that textile was a complicated industry due to its structure also said ‘’ Consumer expectations and marketplace conditions are making this process more complicated. Fundamental expectation of a firm is a technology which helps correct collections to develop and deliver products for their customers faster than its opponents. This technology needs to be able to scaled in parallel with the growth of the firm and needs to be flexible as much as fitting the changing conditions while managing standard process without problem’’.
Infor Fashion
Giden who mentioned Infor Fashion developed by Infor for fashion industry, stated that with this solution sector- focused functionality has been obtained including all processes from design to multi- channel delivery. She said this solution had privatized applications for subsectors such as clothing, shoe, home textile, accessories or luxury consumption and thus it presented customers to focus on the processes making difference at competition by faster application for standard process.
Giden who underlined that Infor Fashion which was called as M3 in the marketplace presented an integrated solution including all processes, kept her words as the following: ‘’ Change is the unchangeable of textile industry! While margins are decreasing, presentation period for market is becoming shorter. Changing customer demands cause to open new sale channels. And Infor Fashion helps the firms in this point; faster design, development and presentation for market, keeping costs under control by increasing the collaboration with customers and suppliers and faster shipping and trouble- free stock renewal. Besides, it helps matching of sale channels to consumer behaviors’’.
