Floward operates a regional e-commerce and logistics network delivering flowers and gifts across 36 cities in nine countries, with order-fulfillment challenges (late orders, missing items, accuracy) visible in their pain-point stack. Their tech foundation—SAP, AWS data infrastructure (Redshift, BigQuery, Airflow, dbt), and BI tools (Looker Studio, Power BI)—supports both supply-chain visibility and marketing analytics, though hiring has decelerated and remains concentrated in ops, HR, and sales rather than engineering or data-engineering growth.
Floward is an e-commerce and logistics company founded in 2017, headquartered in Riyadh, operating across the MENA region and UK. The business model combines direct-to-consumer flowers and gifts (sourced daily from growers worldwide) with same-day delivery via their own refrigerated fleet. They partner with international brands (chocolate, perfumes, cakes) to bundle with floral arrangements. The company serves 1,001–5,000 employees and operates in 36 cities across nine countries, generating operational complexity around inventory, fulfillment, and regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions.
Floward runs SAP for enterprise operations, AWS (Redshift, RDS, Lambda, SQS) for data and compute, BigQuery and dbt for analytics, Looker Studio and Power BI for reporting, Firebase for app instrumentation, and Apache Airflow for workflow orchestration.
Floward operates same-day delivery across 36 cities in nine countries within the MENA region plus the UK, with headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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