Cdiscount – E-commerce Odoo-based platform to support international expansion

About

Cdiscount is the first e-commerce player in France, subsidiary of the French mass-market retail group Groupe Casino (which used to be known as Big C in Asia). 

In 2014, Cdiscount initiated a plan of international expansion, in Asia, Africa and South-America. Odoo was selected as the back-end for some of these new countries (Vietnam, Cameroun, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Tunisia, Urugay).

The project

The project was divided in 3 phases:

• Phase 1: Deployment Cdiscount Vietnam:

• • Implement ERP features for Inventory, Purchasing, Delivery Order

  • Integration of Odoo as a back-end for Magento to handle ecommerce Sales Orders

  • Integration with Gold from BigC for the vendor and sourcing information

  
  

• Phase 2: Deployment Cdiscount International in Africa:

• • Implement ERP features for Inventory
    

  • Integration of Odoo as a back-end for Esus (ecommerce front-end)

  • Integration with an external WMS (Speed) managed by Bolloré in African countries

  
  

• Phase 3: Upgrade Cdiscount Vietnam:

• • Migration of the ecommerce front-end from Magento to Esus

  • Integration with SAP (Big C) for accounting data

  • Integration with Marketplace and Pick-up Points platform

  • Implement ERP features for Accounting focus on Inventory Cost Price and Management Reports

Main features and customizations

The project includes the following key features & customizations:

• Integration with Esus front-end API to synchronize products and sales

• Integration with Speed (WMS) for the warehouse operations

• Advanced stock management with FIFO and FEFO

• Fine-grained modeling of the stock locations in the warehouse (down to storage bins) and optimization of the storage for efficiency of the warehouse operations [Vietnam]

• Implementation of a wave picking mechanism in Odoo [Vietnam]

• SAP API to synchronize suppliers and billing data [Vietnam]

• Other customization on Product Management, Purchasing, Sales Order, Inventory, Delivery, Accounting to help the platforms meet closely with the business workflows / requirements [Vietnam]

Some figures

• Deployment in 5 countries

• 100,000 SKUs

• 300 sales per day in Vietnam (up to ~1000 in periods of sale)