Qingdao kutesmart Co.,Ltd

Kutsmart’s system collects customers’ measurements and requests for different fabrics and design, such as the shape of the collar or embroidered initials, and automatically transforms those into manufacturing specifications. It reduces employee headcount by 30% and substantially eliminates problems in inventory and cash flow. A suit would be delivered to the customer in a maximum of ten days after ordering, including seven spent on manufacturing, compared with up to six months for conventional tailoring.With suits sold at prices as low as $200, a fourth of a typical tailored suit in the U.S. and Europe, Kutesmart rakes in 90% of its sales from those markets thanks to local agents and increasing direct online orders. The company is particularly strong in New York, where it made its first footprint overseas. Today it churns out 3,000 suits each day under a series of labels such as Kutesmart or customer's own brand, and hopes to attain a customer base of tens of millions within the next decade in North America, Europe and China respectively.Zhang Daili, a 60-year-old Qingdao native, founded Redcollar(Kutesmart) in 1995 as an OEM factory, and began eyeing the made-to-measure market in 2003 when the margins turned thinner. Zhang developed a standardized method he calls “coordinates measuring” that creates axes along the vertebra and waist, and take down the coordinates of 19 places on the body – a process anyone without tailoring know-how can master in a week. Today Redcollar’s 300 outlets across China still provide manual measuring if you don’t prefer the “magic bus” experience.All those measurements need to be drafted into patterns for manufacturing. With a database of pattern and design built from the company’s OEM experience, Zhang kicked off his experiment streamlining the process at Redcollar’s 3,000-employee factory.