We Know What OMS and Inventory Modernization Actually Takes
Order and inventory modernization gets complicated quickly. What looks like a platform decision on paper is usually a tangle of architecture choices, operational tradeoffs, and years of “temporary” decisions that somehow became permanent.
That is where Nextuple comes in. We help clients get clear on the path forward, then stay close through the hard work of making it real. Our teams have replaced, extended, and integrated major legacy platforms, including IBM Sterling, Manhattan, and Blue Yonder, across both on-prem and cloud environments.
With several of the “godfathers of OMS” and a deep bench of architects, engineers, and domain specialists, we have seen the patterns, the pitfalls, and the decisions that matter most. We bring that experience to every engagement, whether a client is modernizing incrementally, evaluating a new platform, or rethinking the broader commerce operations stack.
Enterprise-Grade Microservice Solutions
Nextuple's expertise, combined with our enterprise-grade products, fuels rapid time-to-market. We can get you up and running in just 3 to 5 months, including integrations with your core systems. We can accomplish this because:
- Our product managers and architects have on average 15+ years’ experience in the domain and come from companies like Walmart, Best Buy, Lowes, Amazon, IBM, and Blue Yonder.
- Our experience as a legacy OMS SI has given us firsthand experience of the gaps in these products and common pain points across retailers.
- With over 100+ OMS implementations, we understand the need for extensibility to continue your journey of continuous improvement. Our microservices go further than user exits and public facing API extensibility. Discover why an Agile, Composable OMS is the future of omnichannel commerce.
- With enterprise-grade product comes performance. Inherent in all our architecture and design choices is scalability. All our services are performance benchmarked at peak loads and have been battle tested in production at some of the world’s largest grocers and retailers.
- Our products come with comprehensive functional and integration test cases allowing you to quickly deploy automation against these.
Domain Focused Tech Stack Options
Nextuple uses a modern stack for its microservices using languages, frameworks, and components like Java, Spring Boot, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka, React JS, React Native, etc. These options are tested with large volume clients and are preferred software components being used across the tech landscape. We chose these components and approaches for the following reasons:
- The knowledge base of these products is well known and the chances of our clients having existing teams with this product experience is high.
- A document-based NoSQL database like MongoDB that is schema-less and allows for ease of adding new attributes as the service evolves.
- For high throughput high performance micro-services, we implemented the Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) pattern to keep read/write separation for best performance.
- React Native to support the flexibility of deployment to Android or iOS devices.
A Flexible and Composable Architecture
Today, most SaaS-based OMS products use consumption models. That could be transactional or component-based consumption. At Nextuple, we’ve designed our microservices so that you can consume services down at the subcomponent level - all unmetered. This allows small, iterative deployments and rapid value creation. Our architecture was designed by domain experts with 15+ years' experience working with leading retailers. As a result, you’ll get products with:
- Event driven architecture – allows for building scalable, decoupled, and responsive micro services.
- Flexibility to connect to your existing services such as item or node.
- We’ll take your existing contract and work with it vs asking you create another version of that service. This brings down your cost of ownership, maintenance, and deployment cost.
- If you are consuming multiple microservices from us, we can leverage them across all of our products. This includes functional services like node and infrastructure services like authentication.
- Our architecture supports high availability though the Kubernetes deployment framework.
- Ideal Flexibility - Ex. our promising engine can work with your legacy inventory service such as Sterling OMS or Blue Yonder commits to get Inventory ATP data.
Commercial Models
Nextuple supports multiple ownership models for our services:
- Co-developed solutions with rewards for IP sharing
- Mix of licensed packaged product with a roadmap and custom co-developed solution
- Custom solution with rewards for IP sharing
- Saas / Managed on your cloud
- Binary deployment with option to Purchase Source code
Note, these solutions can be delivered in a metered or unmetered fashion.
