Case Study

North America’s largest specialty jewelry retailer, boasting over 2,800 stores and nearly $8 billion in annual sales, selected the Nextuple Order Management Studio (NOMS) to elevate its sourcing capabilities for omnichannel order fulfillment. An opportunity was identified to enhance its sourcing logic strategy with the goal of prioritizing aging store inventory.

When it comes to order management systems, microservices emerge as a powerful solution for enhancing existing technological frameworks. The retailer embraced the Nextuple Order Management Studio (NOMS), a modern cloud-native suite comprising flexible and scalable Order Fulfillment microservices. The technology allows omnichannel retailers to quickly and effectively respond to consumer demands for speed and convenience while optimizing the cost to serve.

Using the Sourcing Microservice, the retailer was able to seamlessly augment and enhance the sourcing logic that was driven through the retailer’s legacy OMS. The microservice included a SKU / store node ranking that was driven by age of inventory. This microservice then worked with the core sourcing engine to inform which nodes should be considered.

Nextuple leveraged two extension points in the legacy OMS as part of the solution, one to get the SKU / store rank and the other to pass the nodes for consideration to the sourcing engine. This solution augmented the legacy sourcing engine rather than undertaking a full replacement, which mitigated risk and accelerated time to results. The same approach can be leveraged to incorporate other factors into the sourcing algorithm that don’t fit well into legacy OMS’ capabilities, such as sales velocity, etc.