Scaling Operations for High-Growth Brands like Passenger, Jaded LDN, and Wild using tailored Airtable Solutions
You're running legacy tech and it's actually perfect timing. If you’ve been around a while, when you started your brand you were lucky enough to pick from legacy retail ERPs and mail order systems repurposed for ecommerce. These all-in-ones were painful because the tech was legacy but they were mature solutions. They did lots of things. The problem with them was integration. Their APIs are non-existent or bad. For some vendors this was by design. Vendor lock in was a legit strategy in 2010-15. Trapped not loyal. Many brands are running operations on tools like Orderwise, Khaos Control, Mail Order Manager, Eurostop, Cegid, Prima Solutions. Many of these started life as on-premise or are even still on-premise so customers have out of date systems that can't be updated. It's why they're the legacy tech and it's why you're stuck. But something's shifted: What took us 10 years to build at Peoplevox takes 6-12 months now. Those £60K integration projects you need to get NetSuite live? AI will be writing and testing with an expert watching over. Wholesale orders will be transformed by AI document parsing within 12 months. Check out Implentio, Inc for what's happening with 3PL billing auditing already. The old certainties are gone. Picking a system thinking you'll run it for 5-10 years feels strange now. Your legacy tech has you standing exactly where you need to be. Ready to step straight into what works, skipping the versions in between. Vendors see it. Patchworks is now a embedded iPaaS - powered by patchworks - because they understand what's coming. Your processes want rebuilding, not updating. Move when you're ready. But watch closely. #techstacks #ecommerce
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6dGreat insights, Oliver! It's amazing to see how AI is transforming legacy systems and reducing integration times. Keeping a close eye on these advancements is definitely key. 🚀