Welsh technology has helped RS Components, a global omni-channel solutions partner for industrial customers and suppliers, to access new markets in South East Asia.
Cardiff-based software developer Box UK has delivered multi-language and multi-currency e-commerce sites to enable the distributor to effectively target valuable growth markets in Vietnam and Indonesia.
The new sites showcase the full potential of WordPress and WooCommerce, highlighting the power of these open source technology stacks as they continue their rapid move into he enterprise mainstream. By accommodating multiple languages and currencies, and a complex pricing structure, they allow for variations and combinations across the company's 50,000-strong product range to give customers an intuitive and convenient shopping experience.
With the ability to perform 18 million pricing and taxonomy comparisons overnight, all product data is kept accurate and up to date, leaving customers able to quickly browse or search for what they need and in their chosen language and currency.
The technology provided by the award-winning Cardiff enterprise software development company will enable RS to respond quickly to new market opportunities for best-sellers from their catalogue of 500,000 items.
Since first engaging with RS in 2013, Box UK has delivered numerous digital solutions to support its client's growth and strategic goals.
Benno Wasserstein, Box UK's Managing Director, said:
“The Indonesia and Vietnam sites were launched in just nine two-week sprints, so that RS have been able to begin serving these markets without delay from a reliable, usable and high performance platform tailored to their specific requirements.”