A Regional Leader in Distribution and Logistics
Nelt Group is one of the leading regional distribution and logistics companies. With more than 25 years of experience across FMCG, tobacco, and pharmaceutical portfolios, Nelt ensures supply chain optimization with maximum efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Maintaining a strong customer base and enabling continuous organic growth remain top priorities. To support these goals, the company continually invests in the modernization of its digital solutions and IT ecosystem.
A Need for Modernization in a Rapidly Changing Digital Landscape
Given the fast pace of technological advancement, Nelt identified the need to define how to modernize its applications and entire ecosystem. The company required a strategic partner capable of assessing the current state of the NELT Market system, designing a future-ready architecture, and strengthening the internal team’s competency for long-term success.
“Nephos is a highly skilled partner with professional consultants who helped us make wise architectural and technical decisions for our digital future.”
Milan Bukurović, CIO at Nelt Group
Key Challenges
- Modernization of architecture
- Limited scalability for future growth
- Inconsistent communication patterns between systems
- Modernization of internal IT skills
Nelt identified the need to modernize its applications and entire IT platform
Architectural Workshops Defining the Future System
Nephos facilitated a series of architectural workshops to outline the system’s future needs, with special emphasis on:
- Identity and access management
- Infrastructure scalability and durability
- Integration and communication patterns
- Data layer modernization
These sessions helped Nelt’s team understand future system requirements and dependencies, aligning both business and technology teams toward a common vision.
From a Monolith to a Modular, Scalable Microservice Ecosystem
Based on the workshop findings and development plans, Nephos designed a new microservices-based architecture, decoupling the previous monolithic system into modern, domain-aligned components.
Strengthening Nelt’s Technical and Organizational Capabilities
Nephos supported the upskilling of product owners, developers, and system engineers through practical workshops covering:
- Competencies in Cloud Computing
- Competencies in Microservices Architecture
- Relational and non-relational database design
- DevOps tools and practices
These workshops ensured not only technical readiness but also the organizational maturity required to maintain and expand the new digital platform.
An Architectural Foundation for Nelt’s Digital Future
By implementing a modern microservices architecture and upskilling the internal teams, Nephos has designed a new microservices-based architecture, decoupling the current monolithic components by their business function.