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Retail and distribution

Retail and distribution software and data platforms

Order, inventory and customer systems for national retailers and distributors, connected to the ERPs behind them, and retail data moved onto a modern lakehouse with AI-assisted engineering.

Who we work with in retail and distribution

  • National retailers

    Data platform migrations and AI-assisted conversion of legacy ETL onto Databricks, at the scale of a national retail estate.

  • Wholesale and industrial distribution

    Order management moved off green-screen systems, vendor and customer portals and a long-running engineering partnership with one of the largest industrial distributors in the US.

  • Food and beverage service

    SAP-connected tools for field technicians and route teams, with inventory counts that stay accurate.

  • Ecommerce and direct to consumer

    Order workflows automated from storefront to fulfillment, so orders stop waiting on manual steps.

Our retail services

Commerce, operations and portals on one connected platform

Order systems, customer and vendor portals, and the ERP integrations behind them, including Winsupply’s move off IBM RPG order management.

Order and commerce systemsOrders, inventory and storefronts in sync

Order and commerce systems

Order management, storefronts and the workflows between them, so orders and inventory stay in sync from order to fulfillment. For one of the largest industrial distributors in the US, that meant moving order management off a green-screen system onto a modern web platform.

  • Order management modernized off legacy and green-screen systems
  • Multi-tenant storefronts and ordering integrated with the ERP
  • Order workflows automated from storefront to fulfillment
  • SAP
  • NetSuite
  • Salesforce
Application development
Customer and partner portalsPortals for customers, distributors and account teams

Customer and partner portals

Role-based portals where customers and vendors manage orders, documents and account history on live ERP and CRM data.

  • Vendor portals with encrypted document exchange and faster onboarding
  • Customer portals on live ERP and CRM data
  • Role-based access and single sign-on
Application development
ERP and commerce integrationEcommerce, ERP, logistics and inventory in sync

ERP and commerce integration

We integrate sales channels with SAP, NetSuite and older back-end systems, so storefronts and portals show live order, inventory and pricing data.

  • Connect SAP, NetSuite, Salesforce, Oracle and more
  • APIs and event-driven integrations for real-time sync
  • Automated workflows without redundant data entry
  • SAP
  • NetSuite
  • Salesforce
  • Oracle
Enterprise integrations
Data platforms and AILakehouse migrations and governed answers

Data platforms and AI

We move retail data onto a modern lakehouse with AI-assisted tooling, then put it to work with dashboards and answers from your own data that can be checked.

  • Legacy ETL converted into tested Databricks pipelines with AI-assisted tooling
  • Sales, inventory and customer reporting on Power BI and Fabric
  • Answers from sales and inventory data that come with the query behind them
  • Databricks
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • PySpark
Databricks consulting

How we deliver

Pick the model that fits the program

Server racks in a data center crossed by streaks of light

Support for the systems your business runs on

Monitoring, fixes, updates and enhancements on a monthly plan, with response times set by priority from P1 to P4.

  • Applications, data pipelines and backend processes, legacy systems included
  • Structured monthly support with clear deliverables
  • Includes monitoring, bug fixes and performance updates
View delivery model
  1. Step 1

    Find the right fit

    A scoped project, engineers added to your team or a direct hire. We help you decide.

  2. Step 2

    Assemble the team

    Onshore, offshore or a mix, matched to your timeline, stack and budget.

  3. Step 3

    Start inside your systems

    We work within your environments, your review process and your compliance rules.

  4. Step 4

    Deliver and adjust

    Regular demos and check-ins, with room to change course when the program changes.

Case studies

More retail and distribution work

Industries

Other industries we work in

Next step

Talk to us about your commerce and order systems

Tell us about the storefronts, portals and systems behind them. Here is what happens after you reach out.

  1. A short call about your commerce and operations systems

    What runs today, where orders and inventory fall out of sync and what is driving the timing.

  2. An engineer looks at what’s running

    Scope comes from your systems as they are, before anything is priced.

  3. You get a written proposal

    Covering scope, team, approach and price.

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