Decathlon is an international chain of sporting goods stores offering clothing, supplies, accessories, supplements, furnishings and equipment for 86 sports. Decathlon is also the second-largest manufacturer of items in the industry, with 60 branches in Poland.
Decathlon believes that employees best understand problems in their daily work and are the right source of ideas to solve them. The company wanted to tap into the potential of young, creative employees by giving them a tool to report problems and propose solutions.
The company has implemented a pilot test of the Sherlock Waste application at the Decathlon Targówek store. The goal was to improve communication between the manager and employees, enabling them to report problems immediately via cell phone.
With the app, employees could report problems immediately, enabling a quick response.
Training on how to use the platform was conducted so that each employee could effectively report and monitor problems.
As a result of the implementation of Sherlock Waste, dozens of problems have been solved at Decathlon Poland, including:
"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:
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