Coats Digital, the leading digital transformation partner for the fashion supply chain, has won two awards in the 2025 Just Style Excellence Awards for its exceptional contributions to the apparel and textile industry.
The Just Style Excellence Awards honour the most significant achievements and innovations in the apparel and textile industry. Powered by GlobalData’s business intelligence, the Awards recognise the people and companies leading change and shaping the future of the industry.
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Coats Digital won the award for Innovation in Data Solutions for its groundbreaking GSDCost solution, which revolutionises the costing process by introducing world-first functionalities that enhance efficiency and transparency. Additionally, Coats Digital secured the Environmental award in Compliance & Sustainability category for its commitment to promoting sustainable manufacturing practices and ensuring compliance with global fair wage standards, thereby driving significant improvements in sustainability credentials across the supply chain.
Transforming apparel costing through innovative data solutions
Coats Digital’s GSDCost solution has set a new benchmark in the industry by introducing world-first functionalities that revolutionise the costing process. The innovative approach allows brands to efficiently source, secure, and compare Cost-to-Make submissions from multiple vendors, thereby streamlining decision-making processes and enhancing operational efficiency. By digitising these processes, GSDCost eliminates the reliance on outdated analogue methods, which often result in inaccuracies and inefficiencies.
The solution’s standardised analytics language is a game-changer for the global fashion supply chain. It enhances transparency and communication, enabling brands and manufacturers to collaborate more effectively. This common language facilitates the creation of credible Bill of Labour estimates using scientifically backed international standard time benchmarks, improving accuracy and consistency across the board.
Advanced data insights integrated within GSDCost provide brands with a comprehensive overview of vendor productivity, machinery capabilities, and ethical compliance. For example, brands can quickly ascertain which vendors meet global standards and which require improvement. This empowers strategic decision-making, allowing brands to choose partners who align with their ethical and operational goals. By replacing outdated methods with a digital, data-driven solution, Coats Digital enhances accuracy and consistency in costing, ultimately leading to a more transparent and accountable supply chain.
Driving environmental sustainability and compliance
Coats Digital has made significant strides in environmental sustainability by enhancing brands’ ability to meet new regulatory compliance measures around sustainability and fair wages. The GSDCost solution promotes sustainable manufacturing practices by optimising planning and line balancing. This optimisation reduces waste and improves resource efficiency, directly contributing to a reduction in environmental impact.
A standout feature of GSDCost is its globalised Fair Wage Tool, which benchmarks wages against international standards. This tool not only promotes fair labour practices, but also ensures ethical compliance across the supply chain. By providing a clear framework for wage agreements, it supports brands in meeting global CSR commitments and adhering to new regulatory requirements.
Moreover, GSDCost supports a reduction in Standard-Minute-Values (SMVs) and an increase in productivity, which contribute to enhanced sustainability credentials by minimising resource usage and maximising output efficiency. The solution also fosters transparent and collaborative relationships with supply partners, ensuring adherence to best practices in sustainability and ethical labour standards.
By providing tools that facilitate effective collaboration between brands and manufacturers, Coats Digital ensures a meaningful, long-term strategy for environmental sustainability and community protection. This comprehensive approach not only addresses current industry challenges but also positions brands to proactively manage future regulatory demands, making Coats Digital a pivotal player in driving sustainable change within the apparel industry.
Company Profile
Coats Digital is the software business of Coats Group plc and is the leading digital transformation partner for the fashion supply chain, powering sustainable processes and high value insights through connected technologies. They leverage deep industry and technology expertise to help brands and manufacturers optimise, connect, and accelerate business critical processes from design and development to method-time-cost optimisation, production planning and control, fabric optimisation, and shop floor execution.
Used in over 3,000 factories globally, their unmatched end-to-end apparel, footwear and textile software and SaaS solutions improve agility, speed to market, efficiency, transparency, and sustainability.
Contact Details
Coats Digital
The Pavilions
Bridgwater Road
Bristol
BS13 8FD, UK
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