Case Study

Multi-country E-commerce Enablement for a Global Manufacturing Giant​

One of the largest cement manufacturers in the world, having presence in over 40 countries. Client is a globally leading vertically integrated heavy building materials company focused on four core businesses—Cement, Ready-Mix Concrete, Aggregates, and Urbanization Solutions.

  • Different countries had different regulations, supply chains and other underlying systems, such as CRM, digital marketing etc.
  • Language, currency, date formats (internationalization and localization)
  • Need for localized marketing strategies, to be embraced by the e-commerce system
  • Too ambitious timelines to put down the necessary architecture groundwork

The Challenges

A super fast rollout for CEMEX’s own digital sales channel across the USA, Mexico, and the UK. However, the challenges included:

The Challenges

A super fast rollout for client's own digital sales channel across the USA, Mexico, and the UK. However, the challenges included:

  • Different countries had different regulations, supply chains and other underlying systems, such as CRM, digital marketing etc.
  • Language, currency, date formats (internationalization and localization)
  • Need for localized marketing strategies, to be embraced by the e-commerce system
  • Too ambitious timelines to put down the necessary architecture groundwork

Solution Offered
By NAKS

  • Co-owned the vision and articulated their product strategy and roadmap considering multi-geography regulatory and data privacy concerns 
  • Designed a unified user experience for their e-commerce system
  • Adopted SAP Hybris to build the e-commerce platform and designed it to scale
  • Established a comprehensive team ( Steering team, DevOps/SRE, Development, People success, Operations, Admin and support) for the client.
  • 12 months 3 country complete e-commerce deployment
  • 9.6 NPSOur E-commerce Operations ensured this
  • <90sTime to complete an order
  • Completely automated order acceptance, processing, dispatch scheduling, invoicing and payment acceptance (including cash payments)

The Impact

The Impact

  • 12 months 3 country complete e-commerce deployment
  • 9.6 NPSOur E-commerce Operations ensured this
  • <90sTime to complete an order
  • Completely automated order acceptance, processing, dispatch scheduling, invoicing and payment acceptance (including cash payments)