We developed an E-Commerce Product for a large Automotive Wholesaler in USA
Customer and Business Needs
The customer is independent aftermarket automotive spare parts wholesaler in North America.
Business Pain Areas:
- Manual ordering of parts via telephone
- Cumbersome, labour intensive, error prone processes with high overheads
- Wrong shipping of parts and as a workaround shipping all related parts in addition to requested parts to ensure that the garages got the part they requested.
- No easy way for the garage to double-check and/or track an order
Technologies
- Java, Microservices, Liferay
- Angular
- MySQL and Cassandra
- Elastic and Elasticray
- Pentaho for BI
- Alfresco for CMS
- CAS SSO for authentication and authorization
CognitivZen Contribution
CognitivZen built the complete ecommerce platform while mapping the inventory of each warehouse to respective garage. We were responsible for
- Technology architecture to handle the required volume of sales
- Product design, development and QA
- Adoption of Rapid Application Development tools
- Developing SDKs and APIs to help integrate this solution
- Automating Devops
- Scalability Engineering
Customer Benefits
- Improved online sales drastically
- Reduced overheads
- No manual errors in receiving orders
- Real time inventory access
- Online order confirmation, drastic reduction in manual effort of searching for parts