- 60% Cost Savings by deploying an in-house solution
- An improved Promotion Process
Overview of the Client
Our client is an American worldwide manufacturer, marketer, and distributor of consumer and commercial products with an extensive portfolio of brands. They employ over 30,000 people across the globe with a distribution network that caters to the world.
Business Challenges and Objectives
- The client uses Amazon Selling Partner APIs as their current data source.
- The Amazon Selling Partner API has a complex architecture and strict rules related to authorization, and data retrieval.
- The Amazon Selling Partner API is still undergoing modifications, and hence has certain issues like duplication of data coming in for certain vendor accounts.
- The client required TekLink to identify and handle these errors dynamically.
- The Amazon Selling Partner API has other constraints, if not followed will result in a failed response.
- The client wanted an automated solution to extract the reports from the Amazon Selling Partner API to help increase the selling efficiency, improve promotion performance, and grow the business.
The Solution
- The TekLink Team suggested and implemented a Cloud-based solution as per the requirement of the client.
- The Azure Function Apps pull data from the Amazon Selling Partner API to handle the authentication and data retrieval process.
- The data movement and orchestration has been accomplished with the help of Azure Data Factory (ADF).
- The Azure Data Factory pipeline also allows to ‘restate’ data. The restatement can be done for specific accounts or even specific dates as required.
- The Data Duplication issues were also addressed in the solution with the help of Azure Databricks.
- Promotions data from Amazon Selling Partner API was stored in Azure Datalake, which was then used to load into the Azure Data Warehouse.
Business Outcomes and Benefits
- Achieved 100% cost savings by deploying an in-house solution to fetch the Amazon Selling Partner API Data.
- Helped the business users to gather insightful information to increase sales efficiency, reduce response time, and grow the business.
- Provided a platform for faster ad-hoc analysis for a good ROI.
- The client can now better manage the performance of promotions by providing a detailed view of historical and ongoing promotions.
- The solution is highly scalable and flexible guiding the business to address multiple types of reports using the same pipeline.