Case Study: Whitebox Retail Logistics achieves rapid market expansion and 30% infrastructure cost savings with Amazon Web Services

Whitebox Retail Logistics - Customer Case Study

Whitebox Retail Logistics, a Singaporean fulfillment provider founded in 2007 serving SMB retailers, faced growing pains as it built a real‑time inventory and order‑visibility system. Its mixed on‑premises and vendor‑managed infrastructure caused frequent configuration and performance issues, lengthening development by about 20%, producing inventory downloads as slow as 30 seconds (leading to hour‑long delays), and blocking rapid expansion into new markets.

Whitebox engaged APN partner Cloud Comrade, which migrated SAP Business One, .NET apps and the Oracle WMS to an AWS architecture (EC2, RDS, S3, SES). The move cut infrastructure costs by more than 30%, reduced inventory download times to under five seconds, improved availability toward 99.999%, and shrank development cycles from five weeks to under five days—enabling replication of the real‑time system to new markets in less than two weeks and positioning the company for regional growth.

Whitebox Retail Logistics

Walter Wong

Director