Digital Procurement
& Replatforming
Our consultants all have previous client-side experience so we know the real questions to ask in relation to our technical, platform and procurement services.
Digital user
experience audits
The first step in optimising and developing your tech strategy is usually reviewing your current set-up – our experts will deep dive into this from customer, commercial and technical viewpoints.
Tech stack review
Although the ecommerce platform is at the core of any digital ecommerce business, the surrounding tech stack can be equally, if not more, important to drive sustainable sales and profit growth. We’ve worked with many clients to review and audit their tech stack in order to assess its suitability to meet future strategic goals.
Tech platform:
Discovery & selection
Initial discovery to understand your ecommerce current set-up, top-line future requirements, assemble the project team and produce your initial requirements Followed by selection: matching up your needs with the best-fit ecommerce platform. We are fully independent and platform agnostic but have experience with all major ecommerce platforms.
Tech platform:
Agency selection
Finding the best tech agency partner to design and build your new ecommerce platform, usually via a bespoke RFP process, through to final negotiations and selection.
Platform procurement
& project management
Including internal and external stakeholder management – we will work with you to ensure the project runs smoothly, no matter how complex (or simple!) your existing organisational set-up.
Other digital procurement
As well as replatform procurement projects, we also run smaller digital procurement projects – often following or hand in hand with a tech stack audit.
Although the budgets involved with such tools may be smaller, we still follow an equally rigorous process to ensure the right solution for your business.
And a bit more detail on some of our main services…
Replatforming
We can help with all stages of replatforming projects, with a special focus on the selection and procurement stage. Although highly flexible and tailored to each individual client’s needs, typically our replatforming process includes these steps:
- Discovery – to understand your ecommerce current set-up, top-line future requirements, assemble the project team and produce your initial requirements.
- Platform selection – matching up your needs with the best-fit ecommerce platform. We are fully independent and platform agnostic but have experience with all major ecommerce platforms: Shopify, Big Commerce, Adobe Commerce (previously Magento), WooCommerce etc. We will use our expert knowledge plus industry contacts to assess the best solution for your organisation, including vendor meetings, demos and scoring on key criteria, through to final selection and contract agreement.
- Design and build agency selection – finding the best tech agency partner to design and build your new ecommerce platform, usually via a bespoke RFP process, through to final negotiations and selection.
- Project management, including internal and external stakeholder management – we will work with you to ensure the project runs smoothly, no matter how complex (or simple!) your existing organisational set-up.
Technology
Stack Audit
Although the ecommerce platform is at the core of any digital ecommerce business, the surrounding tech stack can be equally, if not more, important to drive sustainable sales and profit growth.
We‘ve worked with many clients to review and audit their tech stack in order to assess its suitability to meet future strategic goals.
Each review is completely bespoke, however, we always comprehensively review through a variety of lenses, including:
- Commercial Drivers: costs of existing systems, suitability for new initiatives/markets.
- Technical Drivers: impacts on website speed/performance, lack of scalability, gaps in existing systems.
- Customer & Marketing Drivers: accessibility and ease of analytics, integration with other technologies, customer experience (CX), mobile commerce optimisation.
Digital
Procurement
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