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GEFCO Poland

As much as 9-fold increase in the number of suggestions made per person

GEFCO Poland is part of the GEFCO Group, one of Europe's ten largest logistics operators. The company has been operating on the Polish market since April 1999, with headquarters in Warsaw and branches in thirteen locations across the country. It employs more than 600 people and offers global and innovative logistics solutions.

What problem did the company have?

For more than a dozen years, GEFCO Poland had been using the STIM suggestion system, which relied on paper forms. This system did not work well, and employees were reluctant to report problems and their ideas for solving them. Despite many activation campaigns, the effects were short-lived.

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Solutions used

Starting in 2019, GEFCO Poland began building a Lean culture. 40 team leaders participated in the Lean Green Belt® development program, as well as in the pilot of the Sherlock Waste system. Following the positive results of the pilot, Sherlock Waste was implemented for all employees in 2020. Preparation, training and on-boarding took place fully remotely.

What results did the cooperation bring?

The implementation of Sherlock Waste has yielded impressive results for GEFCOM:

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increase in the number of suggestions per person

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increase in ROI

Using Sherlock every day we improve the efficiency and safety of our work. We feel that we have a real impact on the operation of the company, and this brings us a lot of motivation and commitment.

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"Sherlock waste limited liability company" implements the project: "Expansion of products of Sherlock Waste company to foreign markets." under the contract POIR.03.03.03-02-0138/20-00 in the Operational program Intelligent Development 2014-2020, 3.3.3 Support for SMEs in the Promotion of Product Brands - GoToBrand. The aim of the project is to reach new foreign markets with the company's products, in particular the USA, UK, DAH and the Middle East. Total project value: 332,520 PLN net Total EU funding: PLN 282,642 net.

"Sherlock waste limited liability company is implementing the project titled"Sherlock Waste". on the basis of the Support Agreement concluded on January 9, 2019 with Tech-Impact Fund Sp. z o.o., based in Krakow, Tech-Impact Fund Spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością ASI sp. k., based in Krakow, and the National Research and Development Center, based in Warsaw, co-financed from the European Union funds under the Operational Program Inteligentny Rozwój 2014-2020, Measure 1.3: R&D works financed with the participation of capital funds, Sub-measure 1.3.1: Support for R&D Projects in the Preseed Phase by Proof of Concept Funds - Bridge Alpha.

The purpose of the Project is to carry out research and development work, which will result in the development of a tool - a mobile application permanently increasing the involvement of employees in the improvement of the company (so-called Continous Improvement). The tool will serve to:

Engage employees in identifying and reporting problems and waste* occurring in the company;
aggregate data related to waste reported by company employees;
identify eliminable waste based on the data collected;
Initiate processes to eliminate identified waste based on good market practices and lean methodology assumptions;
Building a culture of managers who will make decisions based on data instead of intuition.