Enable Platform Modernization
Principal PM at Enable. Discovery and design for the move to an AI-first, API-enabled rebate platform, new data object models, and folding the Flintfox acquisition's pricing into the rebate workflow.
Enable manages rebates in the supply chain, the deals between manufacturers, distributors, and retailers that decide who made money on a quarter. The product had grown up as an application. To keep growing it needed to be a platform: integrated with the systems around it, addressable through APIs, and able to put AI to work on data it could reach.
I led discovery and design for that modernization, along with a revised vision of what the next stage needed. Most of the concrete work was in the data layer. Rebates are tiered, retroactive, and conditional, and every customer’s ERP models the underlying transactions differently, so the first deliverable was a set of modern data object models and the APIs to build integrations against them without a custom project each time.
The other thread was the Flintfox acquisition. Flintfox does pricing, Enable does rebates, and a customer wants them to be one workflow. I helped onboard the acquisition into the product. That’s a data modeling problem and an org problem in about equal measure.
The period ended, as at Splash and Crossbeam, with an updated connectivity strategy for which integrations the platform needs, in what order, and what each one is worth.