Hero imagery for the Retail & Supply Chain industry

“Techniques and methods used showcased real agentic system knowledge.”

Integrated deployment of agentic and AI-generated product artefacts, reducing human effort in thousands of seasonal catalogue changes.

The challenge

Consistent innovation requests we hear.

  • Demand growth is fast; planning systems are slow; the gap is costing us market share.
  • Fluctuating operating cost is eating into our profit. We need to be as efficient as possible.
  • Customer experience is ok in some areas and non-existent in others.
  • Fleet and warehouse telematics produce more data than anyone can read.

We start every engagement by Envisioning, see what that looks like. Then we get to work:

our work

Our customer stories from your world.

Modernising enterprise service management with a SaaS-first, omnichannel platform

Fashion Retailer

Fashion Retailer

First Digital runs a major fashion retailer’s enterprise service management on Freshworks Freshservice, from Azure single sign-on to WhatsApp live chat, across roughly 1,400 agents.

Enterprise Service Management

Freshworks logo
FreshserviceFreshchatJourneysSelf-service portal
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A generative-AI sales assistant for Eurolux

Eurolux

A bespoke, Azure-hosted RAG chatbot called Lighty that helps Eurolux sales reps match a client’s requirement to the right products in seconds.

Capability

Practice

Modernise Apps with Azure AI

Azure AI ServicesAzure AI FoundryCosmosDB
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One App for a national shoe retailer’s 400+ stores

Leading Shoe Retailer

A modular, cloud-based One App that rolled out to more than 400 stores at once, pulling stock takes, sales tracking and ticketing into a single place.

Cloud-native app development

Azure.NETAzure SQLBlob Storage
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A full e-commerce channel for Staffwear in three months

Staffwear

A full online shopping and fulfilment experience for Staffwear, built on nopCommerce and Azure and live in three months to keep sales moving through lockdown.

Cloud-native app development

AzurenopCommerceAzure SQLPayGate
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Stabilising a retailer’s BizTalk integration layer

A South African retailer

An agile, structured rescue of a retailer’s BizTalk environment that cleared recurring integration errors and lifted system performance by a third.

Capability

Practice

Application Innovation

BizTalk ServerIntegration Services
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Modernising a complex retail integration landscape through a structured BizTalk uplift

Pharmacy & Retail Group

A phased BizTalk uplift that stabilised a national retailer’s legacy integration estate across point-of-sale, warehouse, finance and supplier systems, without disrupting daily trade.

Application Innovation

BizTalk ServerEnterprise Service BusOrchestrationAPI enablement
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Enabling scalable integration through ESB rationalisation and phased decomposition

A logistics provider

A structured ESB rationalisation that untangled a logistics provider’s organically grown BizTalk estate, cutting duplication and technical debt while keeping the business running.

Application Innovation

BizTalk ServerEnterprise Service BusOrchestrationAPI exposure
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Integrated LLM in retail processes

Where modern technical works best.

Where AI and Agents work

Vision models in store, demand models in planning, and copilots for ops teams, together they recover hours of human effort.

Get in touch

Let’s talk about Retail & Supply Chain.

Send us the gist of what you are trying to do. The right person from First Digital will be in touch within a working day.