“SATRASumm has been a useful tool for the adidas group in helping us communicate our leather standards effectively, which has helped us dramatically reduce the lengthy, nonproductive discussions that used to take place between the group, the factories and our tanneries regarding the quality of leather incoming to the factories. In combination with regular cutting training from SATRA, the implementation of SATRASumm has helped us improve the quality and consistency of our leather significantly.”

Duncan Scott, Vice President, Footwear Sourcing, adidas

“New Balance has been a member of SATRA for well over a decade, this has been a real benefit and a good experience. SATRASumm is particularly important to us. We use it to determine the material costs of new models and to manage material cutting efficiency in our factories. It is a great help in controlling costs.”

Barry Dimock, New Balance, USA

“We selected SATRASumm because of its proven technique for establishing leather usability.”

Rick Latouch, Timberland, USA

“Cuttable material constitutes a significant amount of the direct cost in footwear. To ensure effective control of this variable cost, New Balance uses the SATRASumm system. This system is an extremely effective, state-of-the-art management tool designed to maximise the utilisation of both natural and synthetic cuttable materials through the grading of purchased leather, the training of cutters in proper cutting techniques, by calculating accurate allowances for the pattern shapes, providing targets for the cutting of production orders, and finally measuring performance against these targets. ”

Dan Luparello, New Balance, USA

“SATRASumm gives us very accurate figures for leather consumption. This allows us to manage our production much more efficiently and has led to a reduction in material and transportation costs.”

Curtis Wang, PT Adis Dimension Footwear, Indonesia

“SATRASumm’s accurate cost estimates simplify dealings with our customers by allowing us to set a fair price for work and then achieve it through the effective control and monitoring of our cutting operation.”

Phanom Sompagdee, Bangkok Rubber, Thailand

“SATRA’s leather grading training has proved to be an excellent tool for aligning quality expectations and measurements in all our business locations, and across our varied supply chain.”

Chris Sudborough, Material Director, Wolverine World Wide

“SATRA’s leather assessment system is a great tool to help keep supplier and customer expectations in line with each other. With everyone adhering to the same standard, it helps mediate any disputes in a quick and cost efficient manner.”

Peter Gregorakos, Quality Manager, Prime Asia Leather Co, China

“In my capacity as a Branch Manager for World Cat, I would have no reservations about recommending SATRA’s Cutter training program. During my role as a production manager producing footwear for the World Cat brand, we enlisted the help of SATRA to improve our cutting techniques. Once the training was completed, and the practices demonstrated during the training program were implemented across the cutting department, we noticed a marked improvement regarding material consumption, as well as reduced reject figures due to achieving a higher quality of finished uppers. The implementation of SATRA’s cutter training program at the factory was the first step into upgrading all of the cutting departments within the World Cat business. From my point of view, and as a former ‘upper material cutter’ with over seven years’ worth of experience, I cannot emphasise enough the importance and value to my business that this SATRA supplied cutter training program provided. SATRA’s knowledge and expertise in this field proved invaluable to me during my time as a production manager.”

Stefan Denzler, Branch Manager, World Cat, Indonesia