Supply Chain E-Collaboration Software for a Large International Retailer
About Our Client
The Client is a large international retail chain operating hypermarkets and supermarkets across many countries, with business areas spanning hypermarkets, supermarkets, e-commerce, real estate, and banking.
Challenge
The Client wanted to create a B2B portal to bring its European branches together. The goals were to gain visibility into every stage of the supply chain, optimize inventory management, enable demand planning, and actively involve vendors in stock monitoring to avoid out-of-stocks.
Solution
INNERLUXES delivered an Oracle-based e-collaboration platform for the Client's category managers, buyers, and vendors, enabling full-scale supply chain and inventory management. It featured:
- A complete, updateable SKU database searchable by parameters such as category, manufacturer, price, and quantity.
- Role-based user accounts — category managers, store managers, vendors, merchandise managers, accountants, and more.
- Document templates (e.g., purchase orders and emails to vendors).
- Automated issuing and tracking of purchase orders to and by vendors.
- Integration of real-time supply-chain data from buyers, accountants, vendors, checkouts, store managers, and others.
- Trackable communication between the Client's buyers and vendors.
- Real-time report generation.
Results
The platform became a go-to solution for the Client's buyers and vendors, helping maintain high-quality, relevant data essential for effective supply chain and inventory management. Its full feature set lets users:
- Gain in-depth, real-time visibility into buying and selling processes.
- Minimize out-of-stock levels through vendors' prompt participation and ongoing stock monitoring.
- Facilitate demand planning with advanced analytics and real-time reports.
- Reduce the cost and time of supply chain operations through automation.
Remote 24/7 access for both buyers and vendors keeps data up to date regardless of users' locations, and the platform's ease of use drives strong adoption while minimizing human error in handling critical data.
Technologies and Tools
Front end: HTML/DHTML, XML.
Back end: JEE, Servlets/JSP, Spring, Hibernate, JUnit, Oracle Application Server, Java.
Database: Oracle Database Server.
Tools: log4j, Ant, IntelliJ IDEA, TOAD, PR-Tracker Web Client, WinCVS.