Mumbai Luxury Silks
Luxury Silk & Sarees · Est. 1952
How a heritage silk brand scaled DTC from 3 to 47 markets without adding a single warehouse.
A heritage silk house used TextileERP's omnichannel + D2C stack to go from 3 markets to 47 in 18 months, scaling SKU-level inventory across Shopify, Amazon, and 12 boutiques without opening new warehouses.
47
Markets live
up from 3
340%
Oversells fixed
now <0.1%
2.8x
Online revenue
YoY
11 days
SKU launch
was 6 weeks
The Challenge
Their flagship e-commerce site oversold bestsellers by 340% because inventory wasn't synced between boutiques, warehouse, and online store.
The Solution
Unified inventory spine with real-time sync to Shopify, Amazon, Instagram Shopping, and 12 retail POS systems — plus automated product-data enrichment for each channel.
The Outcome
47 markets live in 16 weeks.
Scaling globally with a 1980s back office
Mumbai Luxury Silks spent seven decades building a brand that commanded premium prices from New York to Tokyo. But when online demand exploded in 2023, the back office couldn't keep up. A single bridal saree SKU would sell 14 units online in a day — but only 4 existed across the network.
Every oversell meant an apologetic email, a refund, and a lost customer. Worse, their bestselling SKUs were sitting in one boutique while selling out in another — invisible to anyone without a phone call.
Key pain points
- Bestsellers oversold by up to 340% during campaigns
- Inventory accuracy across locations at 61%
- New product took 6 weeks to list across all channels
- Manual daily reconciliation consumed 2 full-time staff
One inventory, many storefronts, zero drift
TextileERP became the inventory system of record. Every sale — whether on Shopify, Amazon, Instagram, or in a boutique — decremented the same live count. Every return, transfer, and receipt updated it in real time.
The second unlock was product data. Instead of manually listing each SKU on four channels, product information flows from ERP to every storefront — with channel-specific formatting (Amazon A+ content, Instagram Shopping tags, etc.) applied automatically.
What we deployed
- Single inventory ledger across 12 boutiques + 4 digital channels
- Real-time sync via webhooks — sub-5-second propagation
- Automated product data enrichment per channel
- Unified returns across all channels
A 73-year-old brand that feels brand-new online
Online revenue grew 2.8x in 12 months. Oversells — the single biggest customer complaint in 2024 — dropped from 340% on bestsellers to 0.09% across the catalog. The brand launched in 44 new markets without a single additional warehouse or distribution center.
Most importantly: the team that used to reconcile inventory by phone now spends its time on merchandising, storytelling, and customer experience. The tech disappeared into the background, as good tech should.
47
Active retail markets (up from 3)
2.8x
Online revenue growth YoY
0.09%
Oversell rate (was 340% on bestsellers)
11 days
Product launch cycle — down from 6 weeks
89%
Inventory accuracy (was 61%)
12
Retail locations on unified POS
4 channels
Synced: Shopify, Amazon, Instagram, POS
“We grew up proud of our craft, but embarrassed by our systems. Now we're proud of both. Customers in Dubai, Toronto, and Melbourne get the same experience as customers walking into our Mumbai flagship — and that's what a 73-year-old brand deserves.”
Aarav Kapoor
CEO, Mumbai Luxury Silks
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