Challenge

Sea to Summit operates individual businesses in each territory with their own stock control and transaction systems, but they wanted a common e-commerce platform that plugged into each one, with data segregation between them.

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Solution

We separated the system design into 2 conceptual parts with responsibility for product data and assets lying with the base distributer, and transactional data flowing to each regional distributor.

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Result

A high fidelity design proof of concept, along with a clear implementation plan to overcome the technical challenges when building an e-commerce system within a franchise like environment.

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