Tailoring your Supply Chain Infrastructure for Strategic Fit
End-to-End Excellence: From WMS Customization to Cloud Enablement
Invigorate your Supply Chain
Developing Tailored Supply Chain Applications
In a world where customers expect consistent, personalized experiences across various channels, retailers and wholesalers face significant challenges in meeting these demands with generic supply chain solutions. Achieving this requires innovative thinking beyond standard approaches.
At VCO Systems, we combine business domain expertise with cutting-edge technology to help you develop custom enterprise solutions that effectively respond to your customers’ needs and expectations.
Value Proposition
Our Expertise
We specialize in creating supply chain applications designed to enhance business operations and seamlessly integrate with existing systems. Our client-centric approach ensures that the software aligns perfectly with your unique business processes, offering full-cycle software delivery.
Technology Stack
Agile Methodology
Our Agile process empowers us to deliver tailored applications on time & on budget. Our software engineering team starts with an in-depth understanding of the business processes. We focus next on the area(s) with the biggest opportunity within these processes. Iteratively, we deliver working software in shorter phases, getting feedback from key stakeholders on a regular basis.
Our Services
Warehouse Management Solutions Customization
Custom Enhancements to your WMS:
- Our solution architects assist clients identify and design custom enhancements to meet their unique business needs.
- Our technology team develops customer specific enhancements to WMS functionalities.
Bespoke Mobile Solutions:
- We help you build tailored mobile solutions to meet the growing needs of your staff on the move.
- User-friendly mobile technology compatible with both iOS and Android.
MHE Integration:
- We have expertise building interfaces with a variety of MHE Systems: Sortation Systems like Joey, Bombay, Tilt-tray, ASRS, AutoStore and Shuttle Systems; Light-directed Solutions like Pick-to-Light; Automated Mobile Robots, etc.
Parcel Rate Shopping:
- We build custom interfaces to facilitate communication between WMS and any Parcel EPI (External Parcel Integration) provider (like Centiro, ProShip, etc.) to optimize parcel rate shopping and shipping processes.
Enterprise Integrations / Solutions
Modernizing Integration Platforms:
- Upgrade integration platform to the latest, more capable enterprise tools. Modern event streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka will enable customers to build robust, and scalable microservice based interfaces. .
Cloud-Based Enterprise Integration:
- Build auto-scalable cloud integration solutions on AWS, Azure, GCP using microservices architecture, APIs, and advanced data orchestration to ensure efficient and flexible data management.
Robust API Management:
- Create and manage secure APIs for efficient data sharing between WMS and other enterprise systems.
Real-Time Data Exchange:
- Facilitate real-time data flow between WMS/OMS/TMS and other critical business systems for timely, accurate information.
Event-Driven Architecture:
- Design architectures that respond to warehouse, order and transport management events in real-time, boosting operational responsiveness and efficiency utilizing event-driven technology: Pub/Sub like Kafka, RabbitMQ; Microservice API.
QA Automation of WMS
- Implement automated functional, regression, performance, security, and integration testing to ensure robust and reliable WMS solutions including data creation using API data seeding, database scripting, automated load simulation using Load Runner.
- VCO’s QA Automation framework is highly customizable. This can be configured/customized/enhanced to match customer specific workflows, and can be implemented in record time.
- Incorporate automated QA checkpoints into Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to accelerate the development lifecycle.
- Automate end-to-end testing for comprehensive warehouse operations, including receiving, putaway, picking, packing, shipping, inventory management, and order processing, to validate the entire system’s functionality.
- Execute automated regression tests to validate the periodic code-drops and hotfixes. Upon completion, notify stakeholders instantly of test cycle results.
- VCO’s QA Framework enables our customers to employ advanced testing strategies such as Data-driven & Behavior-driven Development (BDD), dynamic ramp up & ramp down to simulate shift start/end behavior, peak-season simulation, enhanced test coverage, etc.
- The framework can be leveraged for creating large amounts of data required for automated performance testing and forecasted peak volume simulations.
Data Management & Database Administration Services
- Integration: Transform and merge data from various sources using ETL processes and data lakes.
- Warehousing: Build and manage cloud-based data warehouses like Amazon Redshift and Google BigQuery for advanced analytics.
- Migration: Execute seamless data migrations to platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud with minimal downtime.
- Real-Time Replication: Utilize technologies like Apache Kafka and Change Data Capture (CDC) to keep data up-to-date across systems.
- Cross-Platform Solutions: Enhance data availability and resilience with solutions like Oracle GoldenGate and Microsoft SQL Server Replication.
- Cloud Replication: Leverage cloud-native tools like AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) for scalable data replication.
- Design and Architecture: Create optimized database designs using relational and NoSQL databases like PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
- Performance Tuning: Utilize advanced performance tuning techniques and tools like SQL Profiler and AWS RDS Performance Insights.
- Backup and Recovery: Implement automated backup and recovery processes using solutions like AWS Backup and Azure Site Recovery.
- Upgrades and Patching: Keep systems current with regular updates using automated tools like Ansible and Terraform.
- Monitoring and Support: Provide 24/7 monitoring and support with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk and Datadog.
Case Studies
WMS Migration from On-Premises to AWS Cloud
A Leader in Global Activewear Industry
Annual Revenue (2023): $9.619 Billion
Migration from Oracle Service Bus (OSB) to Kafka Architecture
A Leader in Global Activewear Industry
Annual Revenue: $9.619 Billion
DevOps Implementation: Enabling CI/CD Practice
A Leader in Global Activewear Industry
Annual Revenue: $9.619 Billion