Swiss Link Military Surplus
Authentic military surplus & outdoor goods · since 1996
A Northern California institution sourcing authentic, issued surplus from Switzerland, Britain, Germany and across Europe — alongside Wavian USA (the NATO-issue fuel can brand I established in the States and distribute through Swiss Link), Swiss Link Classic Wool, MOLLE/ALICE load-bearing systems, and emergency food. The operational reality is staggering catalog complexity: thousands of one-of-a-kind surplus SKUs, a parallel wholesale channel, and modern manufactured lines, all running on one unified, self-owned enterprise stack.
Challenges solved
- 01
Inventory complexity at scale
Surplus is the hardest possible inventory problem — irregular lots, variable conditions, and SKUs that never restock. I built the operational and financial controls to keep retail, wholesale, and Wavian USA distribution reconciled against a single source of truth in Odoo.
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Single-handed CRM/ERP/WMS consolidation — in three months
I planned and executed the entire enterprise migration myself, in three months: from a fragmented stack of rented SaaS — Salesforce, Accounting Seed, Shopify — into a single unified Odoo system the business owns outright, spanning CRM, ERP, and WMS. Collapsing four disconnected vendors into one source of truth cut operational complexity, SaaS dependency, and cost by a literal order of magnitude — done under live operational load, with zero tolerance for corrupting pricing, accounting, or stock data.
- 03
One self-owned stack across retail + wholesale
Retail (swisslink.com), wholesale (swisslinkwholesale.com), and Wavian USA distribution now run on that one consolidated Odoo platform — storefront, inventory, accounting, and back office on a single source of truth the company owns, instead of four vendors fighting each other for a monthly bill.
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Dense, high-utility catalog UI
A surplus catalog has to surface authenticity, origin, era, and condition fast. The UI is intentionally information-dense — built so a serious buyer can scan dozens of unique pieces and trust what they're seeing, rather than a sparse lifestyle storefront.
Design execution
Editorial product storytelling (Bundesmarine deck jackets, Italian Vegetato history) layered over a high-density grid — utility-first hierarchy that respects how surplus buyers actually shop.