Mastering Auction Bids with Precision Automation
Case Studies
Challenges & Solutions
Technical Environment
Results
Executive Summary
Client
Retail Supply Chain
Industry
Retail
Business Problem
Retail client purchasing bulk auctioned products online wanted a way to optimize bidding price and probability of an auction win. Key business strategy was to build a scalable and reliable application architecture that allowed access to the auctions to specific user groups while maintaining a secure data environment.
Outcome
Secured optimal deals through precise bid placements.
Challenges
- Ensuring data security while providing specific access rights.
- Bid Timing: Creating a bot that bids as close to 0 seconds as possible.
- Auction Time Variability: Handling varying auction times on page loads.
- Premature Bids: Avoiding early bids that could lead to higher costs or getting outbid.
Solutions
- Scalable Architecture: Implemented a highly scalable and reliable architecture.
- Automated Bot: Developed a bot that waits patiently and adapts to real-time changes.
- Dynamic Timing Handling: Ensured the bot effectively manages varying auction times.
- Bid Optimization: Optimized the bot to place bids right before the auction ends.
- Code Quality: Maintained high code quality through rigorous standards.
- Implementation: Automated the entire bidding process using A360, with the bot adapting to real-time auction timing changes.
Technical Environment
- Web Application, A360
Results
Achieved enhanced execution speed, increased cost and time efficiency, improved code reusability, and elevated solution quality.
