Enterprise Marketplaces

Enterprise Marketplaces are digital channels operated by Manufacturers who invite third-party sellers to list their products and interact with buyers.

HARNESS THE CORE CAPABILITIES OF EPARTS NOP DIGITAL COMMERCE PLATFORM

Enterprise Marketplace solutions are based on the EPARTS Digital Commerce platform, and use commerce functions from the core commerce engine such as digital presentation, search, catalog management, customer account, shopping basket and promotions.

Enterprise Marketplace solutions add new functions specific to the marketplace to deal with the complexity of serving multiple sellers while maintaining a consistent buyer experience. Third-party vendors can list their products and interact with buyers through specific additional features such as seller onboarding, product data mapping, product aggregation and deduplication, order routing, reporting for sellers, …

ENTERPRISE MARKETPLACES MOTIVATIONS AND BENEFITS FOR MANUFACTURERS

Enterprise Marketplaces offer many business benefits, such as increased product catalog sizes, fewer out-of-stock scenarios, lower inventory and fulfillment costs for third-party products, retention of ownership of customers by providing an engaging direct shopping experience, and new sources of revenue.
Many of the benefits are amplified with the increase in third-party vendors instead of increasing the number of first-party products owned by the Manufacturer. 

PRODUCT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

The Product Information Management module (Pimento) of the EPARTS platform provides Manufacturers with the ability to collaborate with sellers to improve product data quality and consistency resulting in increased buyer confidence.