Achieving Supply Chain Control

Decathlon has thousands of suppliers across different business units handling more than 100K unique materials across different tiers. To increase confidence in the sustainability claims and augment the existing certification systems, the need of the hour was to track millions of data transactions (material movement, shipments, production processes) from farm level and all the way to finished garments. From fiber to garment.

Without a centralized system, automation or another way to track the process of data collection and verification, it is seemingly impossible to manage this amount of data across a large organisation.

With full visibility of material movements is the vision, we implemented a system to enable suppliers across three different continents to trace the physical flow of materials as digital transactions on the platform. Doing so provided Decathlon with greater control of the movement of materials from one supplier to another, within supplier facilities and records of the transformation of raw materials to final products – all at a lot level.

To enable different suppliers to share the data easily in their own format, we engineered the platform to support multiple data entry options – through excel imports, APIs, folder syncs, etc. The platform also collects quality reports and transaction certificates for every lot – enabling higher confidence on sustainability claims.