Case Study: GAP achieves extreme supply chain agility and faster development with MongoDB

Enabling Extreme Agility At The Gap With MongoDB

The Gap, a global apparel retailer, needed to accelerate its digital roadmap across purchasing, inventory and order management but found its legacy relational databases and monolithic architecture too rigid. Because supplier purchase orders varied widely, the fixed schemas forced developers to write complex glue code and slowed the business from evolving systems to match real-world workflows.

Gap moved to MongoDB and a microservices approach so each domain or supplier could be modeled with flexible, document-based data. That change reduced integration complexity, boosted developer productivity, and let the team implement new requirements in days rather than weeks or months—enabling faster releases and more agile response to changing business needs.

GAP

Ryan Murray

Consultant