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String Furniture

CLIENT

String Furniture

INDUSTRY

Consumer Brands

Manufactoring

EXPERTISES

B2B Commerce

B2C Commerce

Commerce & Customer Platforms

CREDITS

String Furniture ist eine schwedische Designmarke, die um eines der bekanntesten Regalsysteme Skandinaviens aufgebaut wurde. Es wurde 1949 vom Architekten Nils Strinning geschaffen und vereint zeitlose Funktionalität mit einem starken Design-Erbe. Die Marke agiert in einem Kontext, in dem Inspiration, Markenerlebnis und digitaler Handel zunehmend miteinander verknüpft werden müssen.

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Challenge

Solution

Collaboration

Outcome

String Furniture, is a versatile Scandinavian design icon created in 1949 by the Swedish architect Nils Strinning. A timeless designthat can be found in most Scandinavian homes and the rest of the world. In the past, String Furniture sold their products via resellers - never direct to consumers (D2C). However, this was up for a change as we launched their new e-commerce solution...

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Building a D2C E-Commerce Site From Scratch

Our first assignment was to guide String Furniture in its process of setting up a D2C e-commerce site.

The first step was to analyse their current software solution including their CMS, website, B2B solution, custom PIM system, and their ERP system, to be able to help them with requesting proposals for their new D2C sales channel.

The next step was to evaluate the short-listed proposals from a time to market, technological, cost, and tech-strategic point of view.

As String Furniture’s strategic digital partner, we advised the client to keep the existing website and combine it with a flexible and future proof headless commerce solution.

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Combining Systems Across Time & Space

We built a microservice-based layer between String Furniture's different systems and the commerce solution. The microservices are Azure Functions, built with .Net, using message-based communications. A very resilient and scalable solution at a meagre cost.

Working as a cross functional team we created a very cost-efficient solution with extremely fast time to market. We launched the e-commerce site for the first market, Sweden, just after three months, and launched more markets afterwards.

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Collaboration
Designing an Inspirational Website

The vision for the site was to let the visitors experience String Furniture's brand and proud heritage while buying their products. It should both inspire and be a sales channel that combined tells a story. Together with we created a UI and UX design that follows this vision, while keeping the technical limitations in hand.


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Common Future Goals

The business transformation from pure B2B to a combined B2B and D2C company has been a significant change with several benefits. For example, String Furniture will own the end customer data, which will enable them to start utilizing that knowledge in product development, communication and other customer close areas.

From now on, our combined focus is to generate sales through a more marketing and inspirational focused website, together with launching the e-commerce solution in more markets. This is just the beginning of our partnership, as we will together continue to evolve String Furnitures digital journey.

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Kenneth Thorsson

Group CCO, Partner & Senior Advisor