Sectors at the top. Everything that holds them up, underneath.
We work outside these sectors too, on the right brief, but these are the areas where the operational patterns repeat and our experience gives clients the biggest head start.
Most ecommerce problems are not only platform problems. A builders merchant, foodservice operator or manufacturer may need the same storefront capability, but very different pricing rules, product data, stock logic, fulfilment routes and ERP flows. That is why we start with the trading model, then choose the platform and systems around it.
Seven layers from sector down to ERP.
- Middle layer
Commerce delivery
How the work gets done: replatform, build, rescue, run and the data behind them.
- Commerce layer
Ecommerce
Storefront platforms chosen for the trading model, not for vendor convenience.
- Data layer
PIM & Data
Product data, catalogue structure and governance that survives the next replatform.
- Product Information Management
- Product data
- Akeneo PIM
- Salsify
- Informatica
- Catalogue structure
- Attributes
- Governance
- Operational layer
Operational
Order, warehouse, search, payments and fulfilment systems that keep the day running.
- Integration layer
Integrations
The joints between systems, where most ecommerce friction actually sits.
- ERP layer
ERP integrations
Connections to the systems of record: Dynamics, SAP, NetSuite, Sage and the rest.
The result is a solution shaped around the sector, not a stack forced around a preferred vendor.