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Multi POB - Tech solutioning

AIM

Structurally solve the need for multiple places of business and warehouses of the same seller.

Current Approach for WAAS

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To support WAAS, a makeshift solution was introduced with parent and child seller constructs.

Supplier 1 ( parent )

Supplier 2 ( child )

Supplier 3 ( child )

Limitations with Current Approach

New warehouse onboarding within same state is not possible today because of the GST validation ( one GST can be used by only one supplier )

For any child seller getting added

Needs to duplicate seller layer attributes (bank details, phone no etc )

Aggregation of Reports at GST level was challenging as had to be solved at supplier-store level by fetching all child sellers for a given parent seller

New Proposed Approach

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Introducing the following hierarchy

Supplier → Place of Business (POB) → Fulfillment Centers (FCs)

Each POB is a unique GSTIN registered by the seller in a particular state.

Within a state, there can be multiple FCs of a seller which will share the same GST and hence tied together by a POB

What does this mean ?

Instead of Supplier, now FCs will be the terminal entity

Inventory, Pricing, Discovery, etc now need to be maintained at the FC level

The product level information ( Taxonomy ) can still remain at the Supplier level (PSM level ) as it would be shared across all the FCs of a same seller

We need not create PSM mapping for every new child seller, but there can be some differential attributes which need to be maintained at FC level . eg shipping time.

What's the significance of POB ?

Invoicing or financial reporting needs to be done at GST level . Hence for a given supplier the POBs can be fetched

Then for each POB the reporting should be aggregated over all of its FCs

How does it solve the existing limitations ?

Keeping the entities closer to the physical relationships in reality .

No duplication of Product and Supplier level info : In case the parent seller updates the product information ( PSM level ) , all the Fulfillment centers can reuse the same information at PSM level

Impacted Areas

Inventory

Pricing

Offers

Discovery ( PDP, CLP, FY, etc )

Supplier-store

Taxonomy

DS team

Ranking

Transact

Support

Payouts

Fulfillment

Invoice

Warehouse

Ads

Cart

Orders

Next Steps ?

Each impacted area owner to check what all existing challenges are being solved by the new approach .

Any implementation challenge they foresee in the new approach [ very high level solutioning]

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