Stretchline Holdings selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to keep up with seasonal trends

Stretchline Holdings, the world’s largest manufacturer of the narrow elasticated fabric used by many of the world’s leading intimates, swimwear and activewear brands, has gone live with Oracle Autonomous Database for analytics and data warehousing (ADW) on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to create a single, near real-time view of its data as well as automate and streamline processes to boost decision-making. 

With these services, Stretchline can consolidate data from its 10 manufacturing plants in just 1.5 days compared to seven to eight days. Its group finance team has gained timely access to clean, comprehensive and accurate data. The new semi-automated flows will ensure timely availability of the global Stretchline data, which the operating board and management can use to monitor the company’s performance and make data-driven decisions.

With interest in activewear increasing, arise in the number of people working from home and global supply chains severely disrupted, the company wanted to boost its analytic capabilities to anticipate customer demand better. After evaluating solutions from various providers, Stretchline selected Oracle’s machine-learning-powered, self-managing, autonomous data warehouse for its superior performance, agility, high availability and built-in security.

“We work closely with many well-known apparel brands to innovate, anticipate trends and ensure the supply of the elastomeric products they need to help them respond and meet the needs of their customer base. To ensure that we understand their challenges and our own, we needed to rethink and reimagine how we collect, process, manage and use data. We need to democratise our analytics capabilities internally, so we can put insights into the hands of all those who need them to run their business,” said Stretchline Holdings Group Chief Digital and Transformation Officer Shanaka Rabel. 

“Today, organisations have more access to data than ever before but having to process and consolidate data from multiple sources is often time-consuming and error-prone, slowing down decision-making,” said Oracle Head of Technology Sri Lanka and the Maldives Nalin Sikurajapathy. 
“With ADW on OCI, Stretchline can now take advantage of the embedded machine learning and AI capabilities of Oracle Autonomous Database to accelerate decision-making, improve productivity, quickly respond to changing customer needs and tap new business opportunities.”