In the constantly changing global world of retail businesses have faced new challenges of meeting customers’ expectations and new trends. Retail commerce, a new form of e-commerce, to solve the problem, begins as a highly fluid and extensible platform to build and deliver seamless targeted, immersive, and borderless shopping experiences.

The Concept of Composable Commerce
Composable commerce differs from conventional monolith e-commerce applications as it does not require retailers to go with prepackaged suite of applications but enable them to build from the ground up the best of breed applications. This is due to achieving better flexibility, scalability, and general higher business agility because of a modular approach.

Essentials of Composable Commerce
Composable Commerce Platform:
A platform on which core competencies for constructing and operating an e-business, including product database and order entry, and payment gateways, can be set up.
Headless Commerce API:

A suite of services that effectively separate the interface seen by customers or clients from the core commerce platform, to allow retailers to deliver engaging shopping experiences through both owned and third-party storefronts.

Microservices:
A type of small, best-in-class services that can be acquired, built, released, and then managed to be highly customizable and responsive.

Composable Commerce Connectors:
Implementations and connections with other applications like CRM, ERP and other marketing tools that make all overall customer treatment smooth and efficient.

Advantages of Composable Commerce for B2C Retail
Here are some of the advantages of composable commerce for b2c

Flexibility and Scalability:
Customization:
Customize the e-commerce platform based on the need of business or society, or customer demands or choices.

Scalability:
Able to add any number of different clients, regions, or product types into the factory-like supply chain.

Personalized Shopping Experiences:
Customer Segmentation:
Develop highly customized campaigns for potential customers, their likes and their past actions.

Product Recommendations:
Recommend products for customers by using AI based algorithms and steps up the engagement and cramming per customer.

Personalized Content:
Create tailor made, product details pages, emails and others to improve the user customer experience.

Omnichannel Commerce:
Unified Experience:
Make the shopping experience homogeneous across all touch points – online, mobile and offline, physical stores.

Inventory Management:
To solve the above problems, guarantee the correct levels of stock on all channels to prevent stockout and overstock situations.

Order Fulfillment:
Optimize order processing to provide the quickest and most efficient for the client.

Faster Time to Market:
Rapid Development:
Instantly address the Dynamic Market Needs by being able to innovate and deliver new features or functionality in the quickest time possible.

Continuous Innovation:
Remember to stay ahead of the curve, through the constant trial of new technologies and social patterns.

Reduced Costs:
Cost-Effective:
By doing so, it minimizes the costs unnecessary to the line of your business since it only selects only components that are relevant to its operations.

Scalability:
Expand or contract, investment to cover requirements in a more efficient manner.

Case and success factors
Improving customer experiences while rejuvenating a retailer’s business is something that has been achieved by many retailers through the adoption and integration of composable commerce. Here are a few examples:

Levi Strauss & Co
Levi’s implemented composable commerce to improve the ability of their consumers to make purchases online thereby improving the satisfaction of the consumers.

Sephora:
By implementing composable commerce Sephora was able to implement a flawless integration of the online and in-store channels in order to increase the customer base.

Adidas:
Composable commerce was adopted by Adidas to enhance their website marketing capabilities and enhance the click through rates and brand recognition.

Conclusion
Composable commerce is yet a tool that can assist retailers in reinventing their companies and providing their clients with the best solutions. Thus, depending on flexibility, scalability, and possibilities to personalize the content, the retailers are able to overpower competitors, develop unique growth points and build long-term relations with clients.