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Retail & E-commerceBig Data & Analytics Engineering2023
Big DataRetailAnalytics

Real-time Analytics Platform for Retail Operations

A large retail operator lacked real-time visibility into sales, inventory, and customer behaviour across 50+ locations.

Team

7 data engineers + 2 BI developers

Timeline

12 weeks end-to-end

Client

Major E-commerce Platform (Southeast Asia)

Outcomes Delivered

25%

Inventory Cost Reduction

10M+

Events Processed Daily

18%

Revenue Increase

Our Approach

How we delivered it

1

Profiled 50+ warehouse data sources and designed a unified lakehouse schema to normalise inventory, sales, and customer event data.

2

Built a real-time Kafka pipeline processing 10M+ events per day with sub-500ms dashboard refresh latency.

3

Developed a dbt transformation layer with 120+ tested data models, ensuring data quality and lineage traceability for compliance.

4

Created 8 executive dashboards and 15 operational dashboards, each with drill-down capability to SKU and warehouse level.

5

Implemented an inventory forecasting model that reduced overstock by 25% and stockout incidents by 31% in the first quarter.

Solution Summary

What we built

Built a real-time data pipeline and interactive analytics dashboard processing 10M+ events per day.

Technology Stack
Apache SparkApache KafkaClickHousedbtReactPythonAirflow
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