A Fortune 100 CPG company partners with Toptal to improve efficiency and lower costs.
The client’s B2B ordering platform presented extensive technical and operational challenges. They turned to Toptal to find new ways to unlock efficiencies and keep costs low.
Client
A leading global food and beverage company with a portfolio of iconic brands spanning snacks, drinks, and nutrition products.
Employees
Industry
Consumer ProductsDelivered Services
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The client utilizes Pimcore as the core of its online ordering platform for micro-retailers worldwide. With a customized instance of the platform for each country, each global region is managed by a “pod.” The development environment is highly complex due to the heavily customized codebase, as well as dependencies on upstream and downstream data sources. The involvement of several teams and vendors within each pod only adds to the challenge.
Solution
Harmony through consolidation
The Toptal team proposed that it would staff the entire pod, greatly reducing complexity and ensuring that all activities would be aligned under one reporting structure. The high skill level of our developers allowed our team to go beyond generating new code and also address lingering technical debt issues.
An efficient team structure
We were able to reduce costs for the client by pairing our highly skilled technical leads with high-quality but low-cost developers. The new full-pod team is greater than the sum of its parts, as the simplified structure and uniformly high skill level of Toptal talent has led to outstanding performance and efficiency.
Outcome
Enhanced data collection
Simplifying the team while maintaining a high quality standard has helped improve the product and improve adoption rates worldwide. This product collects critical data about the supply chain. retailer demand, and more.
Driving increased revenue
Upgrading and enhancing this product will enable the client to grow revenue by improving the connection with retailers worldwide. The Toptal approach has been so effective that the client has adopted some aspects across other pods, and discussions are underway to expand the Toptal engagement.
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