Lock The Deal: Re-Defining Distribution Systems

Designing a seamless e-Commerce platform for realtors across the industry

Industry

Retail

Platforms

Android, iOS

Expertise & Services

User Research, UI UX Design

Lock The Deal, a technology-enabled B2B e-Commerce platform for retailers, dealers, and traders, offers a wide range of products and brands. It was set up with investment from the SAR Group, with a mission to remove the inefficiencies of the traditional distribution model across the retail industry.​

​ The leadership envisioned a platform that allows retailers access to credit on easy terms, transparent pricing, personalized deals, real-time updates, and best-in-class delivery and services.​

​ Think Design was, thus, tasked with the design and development of this platform to create a seamless experience.

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Our Strategy

The Thinker Approach

Think design stepped in to address this challenge starting with a design workshop to understand the business model, its key strengths, and challenges in delivery. The workshop also helped us align with the LTD team’s goals and vision.

We then conducted a competitor audit to completely understand the direct and indirect competitors across the industry.

A thorough understanding of the retailers’ and buyers’ perspectives was documented through interviews and surveys. These insights paired with the learnings from extensive competitor audits helped us build personas and user journeys.

Insights We Drew/ Insights Inferred

Our extensive research allowed us a glimpse of the common issues buyers and sellers face in the traditional distribution model.

So, our primary goal was to create a user-friendly platform that fits seamlessly with the sellers’ way of business and consumers’ way of buying.

Key Strategic Interventions

Enhanced Information Dissemination

Effective information display across the platform, to boost engagement and build users’ trust in the digital platform.

Driving Self-Service

Facilitating a smoother digital experience for both, buyers and sellers.

Supply Chain Visibility

Integrated transparency across the entire supply chain with regular alerts for sellers to track, monitor, and act accordingly.

After-Sales Services

Services and easy customer engagement features were made available in remote areas.

KEY FEATURES

01

Personalized Offers

Personal dashboards on the platform allow every buyer to enjoy personalized discounts and recommendations for their favorite products with their area-based popularity featured. Retailers have access to credit on simpler terms, transparent pricing, and more.

02

Insights to Lead

Timely updates on price changes and schemes in the market and regular leads are used to keep the customers engaged. A dynamic and intuitive dashboard serves to provide continuous alerts and snapshots of pending payments and active offers.

03

Discovery and Delivery

Easy discovery of products is facilitated across the platform using enhanced category labels. Intuitive navigation through the order flow, chat support for RFPs, best-in-class delivery, and after-sales services – can directly be achieved on a mobile device.

04

Convenient and Robust Platform

Features like language selection, self-onboarding, and assisted onboarding were added to make user engagement seamless and simple. From creating offers/deals to managing stock inventory to tracking orders a complete solution can be leveraged by brands to develop a teach-enabled, transparent sales & distribution network.

DESIGN ACTIVITIES

User Research

Stakeholder
Workshop

Brainstorming

User Validation

Wireframes

Visual System

Prototyping

Specs &
Dev. Coordination

Outcome and Impact

The applications were launched in the last quarter of 2018.

LOCK THE DEAL
A pioneering initiative to organize distribution-led retail in India
LOCK THE DEAL
Research paving way for on-the-ground insights in retail.