CASE STUDY / Industry
Schneider Electric - Circular Certified
Agency project during my apprenticeship, around the update of a PrestaShop base and the design of a platform dedicated to selling, tracking and tracing refurbished equipment.
Context
The project was part of Schneider Electric's Circular Certified strategy, with a strong focus on extending the lifetime of equipment.
The work covered both an e-commerce PrestaShop update and a more complete platform to track refurbished products.
The business context was demanding, with traceability, automation and reliable exchanges at stake.
The need and constraints
Evolve an existing e-commerce base without losing established business usage.
Structure a coherent product-return and tracking system aligned with refurbishment logic.
Support a project where development, acceptance and deployment had to stay aligned with client constraints.
Project constraints
Maintain usage continuity while updating the existing base.
Make product-return flows clearer for the teams involved.
Coordinate development, acceptance, deployment and training in a demanding client context.
My contribution
From 2022 to 2025, we were a team of two developers on the project.
Contributed to the e-commerce update from PrestaShop 1.5 to 1.6.
Helped design and develop a platform for selling, tracking and managing the lifecycle of equipment.
Worked on client relations, acceptance phases, deployment and training for the delivered solutions.
Developed the return platform with Symfony 5.4, then Symfony 6.4, with Stimulus interactions and PWA support. The workflow includes PDF generation and DHL shipping documents.
Features and integration
Redesign of the existing e-commerce base.
Product-return and equipment lifecycle management.
Secure API to make application exchanges more reliable.
Acceptance, deployment and user onboarding support.
From €500k to €2.5M in annual revenue
Between 2022 and 2025, the Circular Certified shop's annual revenue grew from around €500k to €2.5M. A collective result: during that period, the return platform brought return management, PDF generation and DHL shipping documents into a single tool.
A project organised around clear business logic rather than a simple technical update.
Concrete experience in an industrial context with reliability, traceability and coordination constraints.
From this experience to your project
This project shows my ability to work on a business web tool in an industrial environment, with attention to traceability, existing usage and coordination between technology and field reality.