B2B marketplace for industrial supplies
A multi-vendor B2B marketplace with negotiated pricing, approval workflows and ERP integration for professional buyers.
- Client
- Industrial distribution group
- Industry
- E-commerce
- Country
- Germany
- Team
- 10 specialists
- Duration
- 12 months
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Project overview
A distribution group wanted to open its catalog to partner suppliers and give business customers a modern self-service buying experience.
About the client
A family-owned group distributing industrial tools and supplies to manufacturers and contractors.
Business challenge
Most orders still arrived by email and phone, prices were negotiated per customer, and partner suppliers could not list products online.
Technical challenges
- Customer-specific price lists and contracts
- A catalog of hundreds of thousands of SKUs
- Two-way sync with the group ERP
Solution delivered
We built a headless marketplace with a Next.js storefront, a vendor portal and a pricing engine for contract prices. Orders, stock and invoices sync with the ERP through an event-driven integration layer.
Key features
Vendor onboarding
Self-service supplier onboarding and catalog upload.
Contract pricing
Customer-specific prices, discounts and quotes.
Approval workflows
Multi-level purchase approvals for buyer organisations.
Fast search
Faceted search across a very large catalog.
ERP sync
Orders, stock and invoices synced in near real time.
Results and value delivered
- Self-service ordering for business customers
- Partner suppliers selling on one platform
- Fewer manual order entries
- A foundation for new digital revenue
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