Already aspiring to deliver “the greenest ecosystem that denim has ever seen,” Crescent Bahuman Limited is taking other supply chain imperatives head on with the launch of its “Smart Factory 4.0” journey and implementing tracing technology from PaperTale. The digitization investments come as the denim manufacturer aims to fortify its ongoing sustainability and transparency initiatives with the support of more granular data.
Zaki Saleemi, vice president of Crescent Bahuman, said, “We realized at the beginning of the pandemic that we needed to digitize if we were to be successful in the mid- and long-term. The only way to do that was to be able to have a lot of intelligent decision making coming from data.”
The “Smart Factory” update at Crescent Bahuman’s Lahore, Pakistan facility is designed to give on-site managers real-time information on shop floor activity and other vital sustainability-related metrics like water measurements and its energy usage, noted Saleemi in a recent Fireside Chat with Sourcing Journal founder and president Edward Hertzman. The factory is 27 percent through the upgrade.
Beyond the “Smart Factory,” Crescent Bahuman Limited’s implementation of the blockchain-enabled PaperTale will further help the company reach its goal to make 80 percent of its fabric with recycled materials by the end of 2023. Crescent Bahuman, Pakistan’s first vertically integrated denim facility, was inaugurated in 1995. Since then, CBL – as it is lovingly known in the industry – has gone from strength to strength by creating an eco-friendly environment that enables its most important resources, our people, to develop and deliver to clientele satisfaction.
