Solveda

Based in Mt. Prospect, IL, Diversified Foodservice Supply(DFS), is a leading distributor of parts, supplies, and equipment to the U.S. foodservice industry. They are serving over 250,000 customer locations. DFS has multiple brands under its umbrella. Solveda helped DFS to launch their first eCommerce platform for TundraFMP.

• Delivered the B2B eCommerce solution on fully platform agnostic OSLO frontend for seamless customer experience
• Built on Auto scalable HCL Commerce (V9.1.6) platform, which can handle high traffic situation without affecting the performance
• Key Highlights - B2B Commerce features –
  • B2B customers onboarding process
  • Customer contract creation & approval process
  • Quotations for SKUs
  • Manage & maintain multiple order lists for quick ordering
  • B2B Commerce supported checkout
  • To enable DFS customers to sell easily, provision to create custom ordering sites has been incorporated

Office Brands is the largest independent office/business supplies dealer group in Australia. They enable independent dealers to tackle the competition from big players with big buying power in the market. Started in 1999, Office Brands is now serving in over 170 locations across the Australia region.

Challenges:

• Office Brands earlier website had instability issues which were affecting its performance.
• The hosting & infrastructure costs were very high impacting the TCO.
• Need for an ongoing support & maintenance partner to resolve day-to-day issues & address any new development requests

Solution:

• Solveda addressed all the system instability issues to boost the website performance within the first few months
• Resized infrastructure to trim 20% off the previous hosting & infrastructure costs to accommodate within the budgets.
• Providing ongoing support & maintenance to manage any new development and ongoing day-to-day maintenance tasks while reducing overall maintenance costs by 30%.

TruckPro is a Cordova, Tennessee-based auto part supplier. With 145 stores and 11 distribution centers across USA & Canada. TruckPro is one of the largest heavy-duty aftermarket truck part suppliers. Other than auto parts, TruckPro also renders truck repairs & maintenance services.

• Solveda has delivered the working solution on headless OSLO production-ready store in a track record of 3 months followed by a fully functional website for TruckPro retail customers in the next 2 months.
• Delivered an Auto scalable platform built on HCL Commerce and hosted on AWS cloud.
• Single solution repurposed to deliver completely different UI for Wholesale customers in as minimal as one month from first site launch.
• Solveda extended the REST API extensions of HCL Commerce to integrate TruckPro’s ERP systems via Mulesoft to fetch store-based real-time inventory and pricing.
• Solveda has leveraged the power of the lightweight MQ system RabbitMQ to consume millions of messages in a day and publish updates to the product catalog.
• TruckPro business users are empowered to control and manage product recommendations and static content using HCL Commerce Management Center.

CCC Parts is the leading provider of genuine OEM gearing and drivetrain components in the United States. Established in 1946, CCC Parts has been serving customers across the US for over 75 years. CCC Parts associates have access to 500,000 SKUs which will be delivered through 10 strategically located distribution centers to serve next-day standard service across the US.

• Solveda has delivered the solution built on headless OSLO production-ready store using auto-scalable HCL Commerce platform hosted on AWS in 5 months for both Retail & Wholesale customers.
• Single solution repurposed to deliver completely different UI for Wholesale customers in as minimal as one month from first site launch.
• REST API extensions of HCL Commerce are integrated with the ERP systems using Mulesoft to get store-based real-time inventory & pricing.
• To automate the catalog update process, Solveda has capitalized on the powerful & lightweight MQ system RabbitMQ to consume millions of messages in a day & update the catalog.
• CCC Parts business team is in full control of the content to be displayed which included product recommendations & static content using HCL Commerce Management Center.

Moores Clothing is Canada’s leading retailer of men’s business wear. In the 1980s it was started as a single, family-owned store in Canada. Moores Clothing now has over 100 stores in all major cities across Canada. In 1999, it became a part of The Men’s Wearhouse, Inc. (now known as Tailored Brands).

• Implementation of the site was done using Solveda’s headless OSLO B2C starter store linked to HCL Commerce v9.1
• The store is a PWA enabled Single Page Application that is part of Solveda’s OSLO headless store
• The site provides a lightning-fast customer experience for end-users across browsers and devices
• The site uses Elastic Search to provide enhanced search capabilities for end-users
• To resolve complex backend integrations, a queue mechanism was used to ensure a scalable approach for all downstream data flow

Based in Southbank, Victoria, The Good Guys is a consumer electronics retail chain with stores across Australia & New Zealand. Currently under the umbrella of JB Hi-Fi, The Good Guys offers products in over 17 categories electronics products & from over 300 brands.

• The Good Guys were on HCL Commerce v8 and wanted to migrate to v9.1.10 using Lift & Shift Migration approach.​
• Embraced v9 architecture completely with modern & fast UI enabling better scalability to support The Good Guys for global rollout.​
• Implemented latest version of Solr search v7.3.1.​
• Data migration from Oracle DB to latest version of DB2.​
• Seamless integration with third party applications like Acoustic, SIRV, Google Analytics, Particular Audience (especially Price Beat) & other applications to deliver smooth customer experience.​
• Migration included Payment Gateways & Gift card implementation.​
• Created script to push data load automatically that supports docker environment.

Circuit City is an iconic consumer electronic brand that pioneered the concept of electronic superstores. Under new management since 2016, Circuit City will once again become the leader in online shopping & online storefronts.

Circuit City was keen on implementing an eCommerce website that integrates with backend tools & provides a smooth shopping experience to the customers.

Solveda implemented its proprietary headless framework - OSLO to ensure a smooth customer experience with a quick time to market. OSLO offers a PWA enabled Single Page Application & integrates seamlessly with HCL Commerce platform.

Launched in 1956, Hero Cycles is India's largest cycle manufacturer with market share of over 43%. Apart from India, Hero Cycles is making its mark in other geographies as well such as Middle East, Europe & Africa with its subsidiaries – Firefox Bikes, Hero Lectro, Avocet & BSH.​

​Hero Cycles has also entered Guinness Book with Highest number of cycles manufactured in a day (18,500)​

• Hero Cycles running on SFCC platform​

• Hero Cycles has partnered with Solveda to support them in site maintenance & enhancement of 3 websites – Hero Cycles, Lectro & Firefox.​

• Improve the performance of the Hero Cycles site to achieve lower page loading times & smoother browsing experience​

• Solveda also supported in monitoring & supporting infrastructure to ensure maximum (99.9%) website up-time​

• Made enhancements to the website on a need basis​

• 24*7 emergency support on critical tasks​

Based out of Kolkata, Spencer's is one of the largest & widely known retail chains in India. Having a presence in over 35 cities, Spencer's offers products from multiple categories – food, apparel, electronics, and many more. Spencer's also has Hyper market model of retailing called Spencer's Hyper.

• Initially, Solveda supported Spencer's team on support & maintenance tasks on the Adobe Commerce platform
• Worked with Spencer's team to implement immediate fixes to stabilize the site and mobile applications & resolved code-related issues as well.
• Solveda has also enhanced the search functionality to deliver a better browsing experience to users.
• Redesigned mobile apps in React Native using fresh UI/UX designs based on minimalistic design principles.
• Optimized the customer journey to improve overall user experience and app performance.

Yamaha Music, the world’s largest musical instrument manufacturer chose Solveda to redesign their ecommerce website for the ASEAN region. Yamaha
Music Asia Pacic Pte Ltd is based in Singapore and caters to the customers in that region. They had already invested in the IBM Websphere Commerce
platform and was selling the Yamaha brand of music instruments, audio and visual devices and professional audio equipment on their online store. Its a website developed in PHP with additonal design components. 

Yamaha Technical Service System (YTSS) is a comprehensive mobile app service management system which helps Yamaha executives to track and resolve customer issues/complaints quickly, thereby delivering superior customer service. This system helps in streamlining the complaint tracking and resolution across Yamaha.

Application is hybrid and was developed using jason, Angular, PHP, Mysql for both Android and iOS.

RugsUSA.com is a leader in the rug retail industry since 1998. They are dedicated to selling high-quality rugs, furniture, and home decor from around the world at rock-bottom prices.

• Accessing and installing all existing source code
• Reviewing and analyzing code to become familiar with their specific implementation
• Discussing functionality, limitations and enhancements, reviewing the road-map, prioritizing tasks, planning and scheduling tasks into the development work queue

Godrej Interio – India’s largest furniture brand is a business unit of Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co.Ltd. The company offers a multifarious home and office furniture, along with solutions for laboratories, hospitals, schools & others

Solveda revamped the Godrej Interio’s website to an E-commerce website using HCL Commerce V9 platform and leveraged its potential by integrating IBM Sterling Order Management System into HCL Commerce.

Godrej Interio – a business unit of Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd – is India’s largest furniture brand. It has 50 exclusive showrooms in 18 cities and about 800 dealer outlets.

• Solveda implemented a fully responsive B2B Commerce headless site using OSLO (Starter Store) for Business powered by HCL Commerce V9 (B2B) platform
• Key Highlights of B2B Commerce Features
  • B2B customers onboarding and approval process
  • Customer contract creation & approval process
  • Manage & maintain multiple order lists for quick ordering
  • B2B Commerce supported checkout including GST details validation

Bajaj Electricals Limited – part of “Bajaj Group” is a globally renowned and trusted company with USD 6 Bn in revenues. Their business spreads across – Consumer Products, Exports, Luminaires, and EPC.

Bajaj Electricals was looking to implement a highly responsive eCommerce website that would seamlessly integrate with their ERP systems.

Solveda implemented a headless solution for Bajaj which showcases various product offerings in rich content pages. IBM Sterling OMS is integrated with HCL Commerce which provides an overall good user experience to its shoppers

Originally owned by Glen Dimplex Group, Morphy Richards is an electrical appliance company & their products are being marketed and serviced by Bajaj Electricals in India.

Morphy Richards eCommerce website has been implemented using Headless Commerce technology architecture on the HCL Commerce platform for it to be highly responsive & optimized.

Integration of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) for refined and customer-friendly product categorization.

Fourseven is an innovative jewellery brand that offers distinct high-quality contemporary jewellery for women, men & children. The company has a reach of over 1000+ cities & towns in India and has a presence in 6 other countries.

• Solveda did an audit of the site and recommended few optimizations for SEO and customer experience such as meta tags, content on page etc.
• Provided support for better Cloud performance with Magento Commerce Cloud implementation.
• Suggested enhanced UI/UX on the site for a better customer experience.
• Analysed ways and means to increase customer base and target repeat customers using basic marketing automation.

Boddess is India’s beauty-tech company. The company offers skincare, haircare, makeup, fragrance & grooming products of well-known brands from across the world. It aspires to transform the way beauty is discovered by combining technology with experiential retail

Boddess needed support in maintaining the frontend. The website needed fine-tuning in terms of SEO & integration between website & mobile application.

Solveda extended support to fix issues related to the website's frontend & SEO. The website, mobile application & tools are integrated seamlessly to offer an overall good customer experience.

Kama Ayurveda was started in the year 2002 in India, with an aim to promote the message of authentic Ayurveda, universally. Since then, creating pure Ayurvedic products according to authentic prescriptions has been the unique purpose of the brand

Solveda revamped Kama Ayurveda’s website and migrated to Magento 2.3 EE for enhanced performance and scalability

Launched the website with an improvised look and feel for better customer experience and conversion rate.

Solveda is also responsible for developing responsive web apps and International website

Following functionalities have been developed and customized in order to bring in more traffic to the website

• Improved Customer experience
• Improved Performance
• Streamlined Checkout flow
• Reduced Blog duplicity for International and Domestic site

Al-Yousifi is a Kuwait based 2nd largest Electronics store. Its online store, Best Al Yousifi is one of the Top 100 best ranking websites in Kuwait with close to ~200k avg. total visits.

• The eCommerce site has been built using IBM Websphere
• Online inventory view from SAP was integrated, giving business one view of central inventory
• Launched a mobile App based on AuroraLITE launched in Android.
• Transactional eCommerce website launched in dual language, English & Arabic.

Carrefour is one of the largest hypermarkets and supermarket chains in the world. The brand was launched in the region in 1995 by Majid Al-Futtaim, which is the exclusive franchisee to operate Carrefour in 38 countries across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

• Solveda leveraged its deep competencies in Business Process to meet Carrefour’s IT requirements
• A team from Solveda’s IBM centre for excellence doubled up as Carrefour’s technology partner to build and roll out the solution.
• The project was seamlessly executed over phases, with the Development, Quality Assurance and Business Stakeholders working in tandem

Steven Singer, Philadelphia’s premier jeweller nestled in the heart of the Jeweler’s Row. The iconic brand is known for its quirky marketing which sets them apart from its competitors.

• OFBiz open-source ERP solution with the BigFish eCommerce extension
• Custom components for Gift Card and Gift Message features
• Complete integration with the back-end processes to facilitate same-day shipping
• Fully responsive, effective on the desktop, tablet and mobile phones

Mahindra and Mahindra Limited, founded in 1945, is one of the India’s largest business houses encompassing 18 core business sectors having presence in over 100 countries around the world. It started as a steel trading company and has now grown into a multinational conglomerate estimated to be worth of $16.9 billion. Mahindra has a significant presence in the two wheeler, four wheeler and farm equipment industries as well sectors like leisure and travel, Information technology, real estate, retail, aerospace, agribusiness among others. Mahindra is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

The basic idea was to launch an online marketplace under the Mahindra umbrella. This marketplace would enable Mahindra companies to launch their individual online stores or list their services in a common store as per their business model. There were two major challenges posed in this exercise:

Solveda provided complete ecommerce solution for this purpose based on IBM Websphere Commerce platform, and customized it as per the need.

The mobile application development is basically a mobile extension of the website developed and expected to be launched by beginning of next year.