Engineering a Custom Planning Platform

Alshaya Group is one of the region’s largest retail operators, managing complex planning operations across multiple brands, geographies, and high-volume retail environments.

As Alshaya continued to scale its retail portfolio, its planning landscape needed to support increasing complexity, faster enhancement cycles, and long-term flexibility. Key challenges included managing total cost of ownership, enabling faster rollout of new capabilities across business units, and establishing stronger ownership over the planning technology roadmap.

Yallo partnered with Alshaya to design and deliver a modern, custom-built planning platform, providing enterprise architecture leadership, dedicated engineering capacity, and end-to-end delivery support in close collaboration with internal business and technology teams.

• Designed a scalable, cloud-ready enterprise architecture supporting Forecasting, Allocation, and Replenishment workflows
• Deployed a dedicated cross-functional engineering team, including full-stack, data, and UX specialists
• Worked in an agile, co-creation model with Alshaya stakeholders to align functional requirements, data models, and user experience
• Delivered the first phase of the platform at enterprise scale, meeting agreed performance and quality benchmarks
• Established a phased transition approach to ensure continuity and minimise operational risk

• Significant reduction in total cost of ownership through increased platform ownership and flexibility
• Strong internal adoption across business and technology teams
• Clear, co-created roadmap defined to scale the platform across the wider retail portfolio