Flexible Inventory Management
Sleek portfolio with bold visuals, smooth flow, and motion.
2024.06 – 2024.12
🎯 Product Strategy
📐 Scalable Design
⚖️ Decision Making
🧩 Problem Definition
💼 Business Impact
Project
Overview
The Flexible Inventory Management project aimed to enable Aft to support diverse inventory operation models within a single unified system.
Strategy Alignment
This project was a strategic initiative to accommodate the diverse and complex inventory operations of various retail brands within aft’s platform. As aft expanded into a fully integrated omni-channel solution, inconsistencies in how each brand managed inventory created operational friction and data misalignment.
The goal was to build a flexible and scalable inventory management system that could adapt to each brand’s workflow while maintaining structural coherence. Through this initiative, aft repositioned inventory data from a static number to a core business asset connecting operational efficiency and sales strategy.
Stakeholders
Collaborated with the following cross-functional teams:
Backend Team: Designed mapping tables and inventory logic that automatically process connections between warehouses and stores based on user-defined inventory flows (linkage and hierarchical relationships).
Frontend Team: Developed UX to visually represent inventory flow between warehouses and stores.
CX Team: Collected real-world inventory policy cases from brands and defined exception handling per policy type.
Pilot Brand Partners: Tested and validated multiple inventory structures (1:1, 1:N, hierarchical) through live operations and feedback.
My Role
I led the project end-to-end, bridging business logic and technical architecture to manage complexity in inventory operations.
Analyzed brand inventory structures and extracted common/exclusive operational patterns
Defined sync policies and hierarchical logic for multi-store management
Oversaw API design and data modeling decisions
Collaborated with design to define visualization and user flow for inventory sync
Managed CX coordination and pilot brand validation
Problem
& Goals
Problem
Observation
Brands using Aft relied on multiple disconnected tools—POS, e-commerce admin, and spreadsheets—to manage sales, inventory, and product performance. Fragmented data made it nearly impossible to see a holistic view of the business or analyze correlations across metrics, and for most teams, “analyzing data” and “driving sales” were treated as entirely separate tasks.
Execustion
& Process
Design Process
Research
Define
Design
Deliver & Validate
The Flexible Inventory Management project aimed to enable Aft to support diverse inventory operation models within a single unified system.
Strategy Alignment
This project was a strategic initiative to accommodate the diverse and complex inventory operations of various retail brands within aft’s platform. As aft expanded into a fully integrated omni-channel solution, inconsistencies in how each brand managed inventory created operational friction and data misalignment.
The goal was to build a flexible and scalable inventory management system that could adapt to each brand’s workflow while maintaining structural coherence. Through this initiative, aft repositioned inventory data from a static number to a core business asset connecting operational efficiency and sales strategy.
Stakeholders
Collaborated with the following cross-functional teams:
Backend Team: Designed mapping tables and inventory logic that automatically process connections between warehouses and stores based on user-defined inventory flows (linkage and hierarchical relationships).
Frontend Team: Developed UX to visually represent inventory flow between warehouses and stores.
CX Team: Collected real-world inventory policy cases from brands and defined exception handling per policy type.
Pilot Brand Partners: Tested and validated multiple inventory structures (1:1, 1:N, hierarchical) through live operations and feedback.
My Role
I led the project end-to-end, bridging business logic and technical architecture to manage complexity in inventory operations.
Analyzed brand inventory structures and extracted common/exclusive operational patterns
Defined sync policies and hierarchical logic for multi-store management
Oversaw API design and data modeling decisions
Collaborated with design to define visualization and user flow for inventory sync
Managed CX coordination and pilot brand validation
