Tool for Production Support (Decathlon Bangladesh)

Tool for Production Support (Decathlon Bangladesh)

Decathlon S.A. is a French sporting goods retailer. With over 1,500 stores in 49 countries, it is the largest sporting goods retailer in the world. Its holding company was formerly known as Oxylane. Founded by Michel Leclercq in 1976, Decathlon started with a store in Lille, France. It started to expand abroad a decade later, to Germany in 1986, Spain in 1992, Italy in 1998, Portugal, ...

the United Kingdom in 1999, Brazil in 2001, China in 2003, India in 2009, Taiwan in 2012, Hong Kong in 2013, Malaysia in 2016 and Southeast Asia in 2012 and South Africa, the Philippines in 2017 and Australia in 2018. The company employs more than 87,000 staff from 80 different nationalities. The retailer stocks a wide range of sporting goods, from tennis rackets to advanced scuba diving equipment, usually in large superstores which are sized at an average of 4,000m2. Decathlon Group also owns over 20 brands, with research and development facilities all over France to develop the latest innovative designs, registering up to 40 patients per year. Each brand represents a different sport or group of sports, with dedicated product development and design team. They tag their clothes with RFID antennas for tracking. Decathlon is now operating full scale both in Factories and Also Retail Shops as well. NeuroStorm developed a tool named TPS which includes Line balancing, Standard Operation Times, Skill Matrix, Incentive for Decathlon Bangladesh that involves balancing operator and machine time to match the production rate to the Takt time. Takt time is the rate at which parts or products must be produced in order to meet customer demand. In Addition, this tool calculate desired skills for a team or project. It visualizes the required and available skills and competencies in a team. This makes it an essential tool for any data-driven HR professional. It also calculates the standard time required by an average skilled operator, working at a normal pace, to perform a specified task using a prescribed method.