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Scaling E-commerce with Automation

Optimizing operations through intelligent automation

How automation streamlined catalog onboarding, pricing, and inventory sync for a marketplace.

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Overview

What we delivered

Learn how automation streamlined inventory management, order fulfillment, and vendor onboarding, enabling this marketplace to scale with reliability.

Details

Client

Multi-category marketplace (UAE) with hundreds of vendors and fast-changing catalogs.

Problem

Challenge

Manual SKU onboarding and pricing updates caused delays and errors.

  • SKU onboarding took 2–3 days

  • Inventory/price sync lag ~15 minutes

  • High catalog error rate and ops load

Approach

Solution

Built automated pipelines and a vendor portal with real-time sync via event streaming.

  • Validation/enrichment pipeline for bulk SKU onboarding

  • Event-bus (Kafka) for inventory and pricing

  • Vendor portal for uploads, errors, approvals

  • Ops dashboards and alerts

Tech

Tech Stack

  • Next.js, Node.js/NestJS

  • Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, S3

  • Airflow, Grafana

Details

Implementation

  • Phase 1: schema + contracts + vendor auth

  • Phase 2: pipelines, retries/DLQ, image processing

  • Phase 3: dashboards, alerts, autoscaling

Impact

Results

  • TTI for new SKUs: 2–3 days → <4 hours

  • Pricing latency: ~15 min → <60 sec (p99)

  • Catalog errors reduced by 72%

  • Avoided 2 FTE in ops

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