Building an industry-leading composable commerce platform for MKM

MKM Building Supplies, the UK's leading B2B building supplies merchant with more than 100 independent branches, needed an entirely new commerce platform.

The platform had to be secure and scalable, supporting existing B2B customers while also catering for MKM's growing B2C market.

Integration, personalisation, reporting and local branch stock and pricing were central to the brief, alongside complex customer-specific pricing and delivery rules.

We built a headless MACH architecture around several best-of-breed technologies.

BigCommerce powered ecommerce and secure checkout, while Alokai powered the front-end commerce experience.

Bloomreach provided CMS, search, merchandising and email capabilities, while a bespoke middleware layer connected the architecture and handled MKM's complex local business rules.

Our technology implementation team worked closely with MKM throughout the project, delivering the composable platform in less than a year.