Integrated enterprise retail commerce

Building a commerce platform that simplified how customers moved from product discovery to checkout.

Retail|🇨🇭Switzerland
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Illustration of vendor showing furniture and customer viewing products on a tablet

Client

An integrated commerce organization combining retail operations, wholesale, production and digital commerce through a single operating model. Its ecosystem brings together physical stores, customer services and shopping experiences for millions of customers.

Challenge

Years of product expansion introduced new challenges in keeping digital shopping clear and reliable.

  1. Large retail product assortment

    The breadth of the product offering makes it difficult for customers to quickly identify the products that best match their shopping needs.

  2. Customer experience by store

    Differences between store locations can create uncertainty when customers plan how and where to purchase products.

  3. Promotions and loyalty programs

    Running multiple customer benefit programs makes it more difficult to keep purchasing simple and predictable.

  4. Feature rich mobile application

    A single application supporting multiple retail services requires effective product organization to remain intuitive.

Solution

  1. 01

    Product classification model

    Established a scalable hierarchy that organized product categories and improved navigation.

  2. 02

    Store availability service

    Developed a centralized availability service that validated inventory before exposing store stock to digital channels.

  3. 03

    Promotion processor

    Built a processor that determined the appropriate combination of promotional offers for each purchase.

  4. 04

    Mobile application redesign

    Reorganized retail services into a clearer application structure centered on shopping.

Result

Digital commerce became a stronger growth channel as more customers completed purchases and made broader use of online retail services. Higher customer confidence encouraged repeat purchasing while improving operational efficiency.

Illustration of vendor showing furniture and customer viewing products on a tablet

Technologies used

Core technologies selected to support the product architecture.

  • AngularAngular
  • TypeScriptTypeScript
  • SwiftSwift
  • KotlinKotlin
  • JavaJava
  • GoGo
  • SQL ServerSQL Server
  • GCPGCP
Johanna P.

What I remember most is that decisions rarely felt rushed. We talked through the tradeoffs, understood the implications and knew why one option was being recommended over another. Looking back, it saved us a lot of unnecessary discussion.

Johanna P. / Head of Digital Commerce

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Why Mountalis

Product Thinking First

We challenge assumptions early and help shape key decisions before engineering begins.

Senior Ownership

Senior engineers stay directly involved in product decisions, architecture and delivery.

Aligned Execution

We keep strategy, engineering and business priorities aligned across the lifecycle.

Validation Before Scale

We reduce unnecessary scope early so new initiatives reach validation with less operational overhead.

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