The challenge
Seasonal demand and fragmented inventory made it difficult to get available products to customers through the right sales channel.
OUTSYSTEMS IN ACTION / CONSUMER GOODS, FOOD & BEVERAGE
How an outdoor-products brand connected store inventory to customer demand in eight months
Available stock can still miss a sale when the next action is difficult to coordinate. This brand connected stores and fulfillment through a working logistics application. Explore its reported delivery and peak shipment activity.
RESULTS REPORTED IN THE SOURCE
8
months to deliver the logistics application
56
average daily shipments reported after implementation
200+
daily shipments sustained for fourteen consecutive days
THE BUSINESS CHALLENGE. THE CHANGE. THE RESULT.
The change
The brand built an OutSystems logistics application so warehouse employees could locate stock in stores and arrange shipments to buyers.
The outcome
The source reports an eight-month delivery and, a little over a year into implementation, an average of fifty-six shipments a day, including fourteen consecutive days above two hundred shipments daily.
Source: customer case study published by OutSystems. Brief prepared by Digital Alchimia.
DIGITAL ALCHIMIA’S DELIVERY PERSPECTIVE
What could this approach unlock for your business?
The useful next step is to connect the story to your own operating reality. Here are the questions we would bring into that conversation.
01
Connect stock visibility to the next operational action.
A stock lookup creates value when the person finding an item can also initiate a reliable transfer or shipment. Map the confirmation, reservation and handoff steps with the teams doing the work. This gives OutSystems professionals a concrete workflow to implement, including the exceptions that matter during peak demand.
02
Size the release for the trading window.
Identify the capabilities that must work before the seasonal deadline and rehearse the busiest expected workflow. Keep delivery time, implementation effort and commercial performance as separate measures. A specialist team can reinforce the release while the business owns stock availability and fulfillment decisions.
START WITH THE WORK THAT NEEDS TO CHANGE
You bring the business challenge. We help shape the delivery team.
Digital Alchimia provides OutSystems professionals and delivery expertise for application development, modernization and evolution. Whether you need to reinforce an existing team or explore a new initiative, we can discuss the capabilities, responsibilities and next steps that fit your context.
A useful starting brief
✓ The process or customer journey you want to improve
✓ Where work waits, repeats or depends on disconnected systems
✓ The expertise already available in your team
✓ The outcome you want to measure and the timeframe to explore
Turn a promising idea into a useful conversation.
Tell us where your business needs to move faster and where your team needs additional expertise. Let’s explore an OutSystems approach shaped around your requirements.