Modernizing Retail Data Platforms
Faster time to retail data insight
Retail is about matching products to customers at the right place, time, and price.
Patterson Consulting delivers platforms that minimize time to retail operational insight.
Retail Platform Engineering Services
Retail runs on accurate forecasting of demand and sales—and then allocating product to match, so the right inventory reaches the right channel at the right time. Execution hinges on three linked domains:
- merchandising (what to offer and price)
- operations & fulfillment (how it moves)
- and sales & customer experience (how it’s bought and supported)
Retail marketing is moving towards "Customer 360" as a single, real-time view of each shopper—linking POS, e-commerce, loyalty, service, and returns—so operations can match inventory, labor, and promotions to actual demand. This requires a data platform with efficient data change updates and data tranformation workflows that can quickly update the latest information.
Patterson Consulting will help your retail organization consolidate data fragmentation, reduce event lag to insight, and better align demand and supply. We do this by building on the most advanced data warehouses today, the Databricks Data Lakehouse.
Data Integration
Retail data is scattered—POS, e-com, loyalty, vendor EDI, logistics—so it’s hard to answer: “what’s selling where, at what margin, and what do we order next?” Patterson Consulting uses Databricks Lakeflow Connect to unify these sources into a governed, near-real-time layer with reliable pipelines, standard schemas, and lineage—giving COO/CTO teams one operating picture with clear item/location margin & sell-through, timely allocation/replenishment signals, and faster decisions.
Faster Insights with Databricks
Close the gap between events and decisions --- If forecasts and actions come from weekly or monthly reports, you’re reacting after margin is already lost—via stockouts or markdowns. The pain: you can’t quickly align products, customers, and supply chains because data is scattered, late, and siloed. Patterson Consulting fixes this with Databricks Serverless SQL, Lakeflow Jobs, and Unity Catalog—streaming and governing POS, e-com, loyalty, vendor, and logistics into a real-time information layer. Result: KPIs in minutes (not weeks), a single operating picture, tighter allocation and pricing, and fewer stockouts and markdowns.
Case Study:
Learn how Quantatec integrated generative AI into their Movias logistics platform.
Quantatec wanted a large language model (LLM) to answer customer’s questions about their own fleet data and Patterson Consulting helped us to integrate the LLM properly and provide consistent quality answers to the user.
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