Last year, I had just taken a deep dive into Emma, the Sleep Company, one of the fastest growing sleep innovation companies in the world, which is/was on a beautiful digital business transformation.
When my attention was drawn to the Amsterdam-based lifestyle fashion brand Scotch & Soda.
❄ What makes Emma and Scotch & Soda so interesting? ❄
The steps they have taken towards a composable digital business landscape with DAM, ERP, eCommerce, SCM, PLM, PIM, OMS.
Two things stand out:
📌 First of all, their 'Composable Architecture' approach grounded on MACH principles, based on a platform concept of Cloud solutions.
The idea, my belief, that in the world of business solutions, MACH only works by connecting solutions and not functionalities from different solution providers.
📌 And just as interesting is the Unified Commerce idea, the step after Omnichannel, where ERP becomes subordinate to the eCommerce OMS and the Supply Chain Management platform. All customer and supplier channels are united in one central place - actually two: the commercial and supply & distribution chain, which are strongly interconnected.
Emma implemented D365 FSCM with in addition / on top of it Pulpo WMS, Fluent Commerce OMS and Toolsgroup SCM.
☛ Emma did not choose the WMS and SCM functionalities of Microsoft D365, perhaps partly due to timing.
Scotch & Soda, implements Unified Commerce Platform EVA from New Black and the WMS and SCM solutions of Manhattan Associates.
☛ Scotch & Soda has not chosen to replace its outdated ERP solution with D365 Finance and Supply Chain Management.
Solutions in use are:
❄ Why am I so excited about this? ❄
It touches on all the issues/topics I've been working on for the past few years and now, like what does a company need to grow, what solutions are available, what does that mean for business processes, who's going to pull the lead - C-suite or the business architect, how do we increase the insight into the Supply Chain, WMS versus ERP, eCommerce, DAM, PIM versus PLM, BlockChain, ...
Pending the story read: