The amount of technology required to have an effective e-commerce presence is quite a challenge, requiring a responsive website with an e-commerce enabled shopping cart, product catalog and shipping methods, as well as merchant services. However, there is no mistake: business need a web presence to allow their existing customer base to purchase from them…
According to a report published by FIGIEFA (Automotive Aftermarket Distributors): “The independent data publishers/catalogue providers are the preferred source of information for parts identification. This is because these providers offer an important aggregation function”. Aggregation consists of relating the IAM parts reference numbers of an independent distributor to one or several OE/OEM reference numbers. This…
The automotive aftermarket focuses on the manufacture, reconstruction, distribution and sale of all parts of the vehicle after the sale of the vehicle by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to the consumer. In 2016, the global turnover of this market reached 643,000 million € and it is estimated that it will reach 848,000 million €…
A codification is the system adopted for accurate identification of products by assigning an alphanumeric code for each item procured and stored. The codification is the mechanism used by distributors to manage their products and at the same time provides a systematic grouping criteria of similar products avoiding duplicate stocks. The problem is that there…
