Case Study
How we helped turn a 1–3% margin business profitable with a self-service portal
We implemented a custom, client-facing self-service portal built on Salesforce to automate complex spare parts ordering, transforming a low (1-3%) margin business into a profitable enterprise.
Headquarters
Dubai, UAE
Company Size
25 employees
Industry
Manufacturing
Aleksey, the founder of the Meccanica Middle East, found me through my YouTube channel. A company based in Dubai.
Their business is niche, but critical: supplying spare parts to small companies that lease heavy farm equipment across the Middle East.
When a crucial harvester breaks down during harvest season, they need a part now. That’s the service.
The Challenge
Their challenges were partially technical, partialy on the business side:
- Millions of SKUs: Every piece of farm equipment, every tractor, every combine, uses tens of thousands of parts. Their database held millions.
- Low Margin Business: This is a volume game. Margins are tiny. We’re talking 1%, 3%, maybe 5% on a deal. High turnover was essential.
The real killer was the inbox. All orders came via email. Clients would send anything. A random part number. A combine model. Sometimes, just a photo of a wrench and a message: “I need this, fast.”
Every morning started with a detective puzzle. The small sales team had to manually decode every single email. They weren’t selling; they were translating hieroglyphics. This inefficiency killed their margin on every single transaction through slow speed of inquiry processing.
The goal was simple: Process orders faster and cheaper to defend that tiny margin.
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