Customer Story
Customer Story

Achieving Supply Chain Control

Within the first year of the traceability program roll-out, French sporting goods retailer Decathlon achieve an impressive 30% traceability of total volume of selected business units. Often looked at as leaders in sustainability, tracing with TrusTrace was one way for Decathlon to stay ahead of the competition curve and confidently substantiate their sustainability claims.
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Decathlon's Story

Overview

Use Case

Lot-level Traceability; Product Claims

Solutions

Lot-level Traceability; Evidence Management

Milestones

Traced 30% of the total volume for certain business units <1 year.

From Farm to Product

The TrusTrace platform was used for lot level traceability of various materials – across tiers and business units. Decathlon eliminated supply chain risks which allowed them to confidently make sustainability claims.
The Challenge

Tracing 100K Unique Materials

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.

The Solution

A System for Diverse Data Input

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.

The Result

Tracing 30% of Selected Business Units in a year

A simplified user interface for suppliers and brands enabled Decathlon to onboard suppliers remotely – across three continents in less than six months. The platform has been adopted by various business units to trace a range from textiles to bikes. Decathlon traced 30% of the total volume for certain business units within twelve months of roll-out. The platform is expected to enable 100% traceability for said business units by 2022.

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