Bison Commerce is a technology, innovation, and marketing company for furniture manufacturers in North America. The company works with over 350 suppliers, merchandises over a million unique SKUs, and transacts more than half a million orders each year. Gritmind and Bison Commerce developed software that optimizes supplier product data, automates product marketing, and consistently wins the buy box on Amazon.
Supplier onboarding
Introduced new self-service capabilities to accelerate onboarding of new suppliers.
New supplier applicationAutomated supplier onboardingWarehouse configuration
Order management
Redesigned order management workflows to support bulk actions, simplify data upload from suppliers.
Order managementBulk actions, price change requestsLogistics and order trackingAI-powered damaged item reconciliation
Metrics and messaging
Established metrics and reporting framework to incentivize supplier participation in Bison retailing channels.
Shipment notificationsLate shipment interceptsSupplier sales dashboardChannel marketing dashboard
Engineering standards and design
GitOps as the operational framework
Serves as a single source of truth for declarative infrastructure and application management, enabling automated, auditable, and consistent deployments through version-controlled workflows.
“Gritmind was able to stand up a senior team before we finished planning our roadmap. Outstanding people, spotless technical expertise, and a methodology that improves our own workflows”.
Technical design approach
To bridge the gap between legacy systems and modern applications, a messaging architecture was introduced, facilitating seamless data exchange and interoperability through asynchronous communication.
Preserves legacy operationsEnables new product developmentConnects systems for data sync
Architecture and process highlights
Microsoft stackNew portal as a containerized Azure appRabitMQ for messagingDomain driven design patternsContinuous delivery and Scrum