
Prior professional experience
Experience summary
Supplier integration for a marketplace
Integrating catalogue and order data with external suppliers in a marketplace without its own stock.
- Situation
- The marketplace needed to onboard suppliers and keep its catalogue, orders and availability up to date.
- Role
- Product engineering and integration architecture in a marketplace environment.
- What needed to be addressed
- Poor synchronisation could cause manual work, incorrect stock information and errors that were difficult to trace.
- Technical decision
- Separate catalogue and order workflows, process them asynchronously and define ownership of operational issues.
- Intervention
- Designing dropshipping and crossdocking workflows, synchronising catalogue and orders, and integrating supplier APIs.
- What the solution supports
- The integration supports centralised supplier information and tracking of data exchanges.
Note: Professional experience summary; internal implementation details are omitted.

