Slim4 by Slimstock is a powerful, AI-based inventory management platform tailored for supply chain optimization within B2B environments.
Designed for inventory managers, demand planners, and production teams, Slim4 enables accurate demand forecasting, inventory planning, and replenishment management, minimizing waste and improving order fulfillment. Its modular structure supports a range of functions—from analytics and production scheduling to order management—offering scalability and adaptability across industries such as retail, manufacturing, food, and e-commerce.
With a role-based authorization system, Slim4 ensures secure and usability access across various user levels, while ERP integration enhances cross-functional collaboration. As a Functional designer working in R&D team, my role focuses on simplifying complex workflows within Slim4’s key modules, making data-driven insights and operational controls accessible and user-friendly for diverse business needs.
| Time frame: | 07.2023 - 07.2024 |
| Organization: | Slimstock Holding, Netherlands |
| Role: | Functional designer & Product release specialist | Product Development |
| Techniques/Tools: | UX research (Workshop, interview); Data analysis (Qualitative and quantative data); Product Development (user story, UX and functional specification); Product release (release note, webniar) |
| Product Website: | The Slim4 engine UX |
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Designed and Developed Slim4, fostering cross-functional collaboration among stakeholders to optimize information architecture, enhance service quality, and deliver seamless end-to-end (E2E) user experiences.
Led the entire design lifecycle, working closely with Product team and various business units (BU) to define roadmaps, prioritize requirements, and drive project progression through user research—including market analysis, concept validation, and business assessment—alongside usability testing and feature rollouts. Accountable for creating and maintaining functional and UX specifications, ensuring efficient and effective project execution within Agile and Scrum methodologies in close collaboration with the technical Product owner and Development team.
Contributed to redesigning the UX navigation on key pages by conducting concept testing and hosting evaluation workshops with over 70 stakeholders to validate usability and user satisfaction. The final solution was determined based on analyzed user research data and further refined as a scalable development concept.
Contributed to the development of new features - designing a chatbot for internal customer support to enhance users' ability to efficiently access relevant information through a conversational interface. Focused on optimizing the chatbot’s contextual understanding within specific domains, this feature is powered by AI and ML. Collaborated closely with AI/ML scientists to integrate emerging technologies, ensuring the best possible conversational UX.
Contributed to optimizing workflow management across supply-chain sectors by collaborating closely with domain-specific units—such as S&OP, Production, and Retail—through targeted interviews and workshops. This approach balanced critical requirements, ensuring that both business needs and user factors were integrated effectively into the existing system. Additionally, consideration of diverse user authorization settings supported a solution that is both scalable and customizable. The design fostered transparency, enhanced collaboration, and significantly improved workflow efficiency.
Given the business-facing nature of the product, presenting diverse data in a clear and organized manner across multiple screens was essential. Contributed to enhancing and expanding system features by improving visual consistency, refining data visualization, and optimizing dashboard usability to support a broad range of use cases.
As a Product Release Specialist at Slimstock, I am responsible for managing collaboration among internal and external stakeholders, coordinating development sprints every three weeks. I create product release content and update and maintain the product information and structure in WordPress (CMS), which includes fixing bugs, enhancing UX/UI, and managing content related to supply chain management, as well as information security and database management. This role has developed my ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritize features effectively, and ensure timely delivery.
Business research is crucial for each project in a B2B enterprise product context, as it helps prioritize requirements effectively. Workshops are frequently employed to align the expectations of various stakeholders efficiently..
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Online workshops are typically conducted using Miro, where we explore initial topics, including identifying the target audience (TA), pinpointing problems, and engaging in brainstorming sessions followed by criteria validation.
Once the requirements are clearly defined and agreed upon, iterations occur with the product team (including the product owner and developers) to refine the user flow. This process ensures that the design better integrates with the existing system and takes scalability into account.
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On certain occasions, when major and impactful features are set to be launched and multiple stakeholders—including business units, internal consultants, and even customers—are involved, onsite workshops will be organized. These workshops will validate insights with stakeholders from various key user perspectives, allowing for the identification of critical insights and the exploration of potential risks and opportunities.
