WBSRocks: Business Growth with Enterprise Software and Digital Transformation
WBSRocks podcast features in-depth conversations on customer experience, digital transformation, supply chain, eCommerce, industry 4.0, and enterprise software categories such as CRM, ERP, or analytics suites. The purpose of the show is to help CFOs, COOs, CEOs, and business owners with their daily commercial, operational, or financial challenges by taking a deep dive into business cases and processes, technology strategy and architecture, transformation initiatives, and business models. The show also offers an independent analysis of technology trends, various enterprise software vendors and solutions, and their mergers and acquisitions. Subscribe today to stay on top of digital transformation trends!
WBSRocks: Business Growth with Enterprise Software and Digital Transformation
WBSP262: Grow Your Business by Learning Through B2B eCommerce Journey of a Construction Distribution Business w/ Billy Hanes
If you are a complex distribution business with manufacturing as part of your business model, your business processes are likely to be more complex than most traditional distribution and manufacturing businesses. It's even harder if you plan to penetrate digital channels along with selling through distributors. You have issues such as eCommerce not talking to your ERP. Then Issues such as consistent pricing need to be communicated across channels. Finally, you might have channel conflict issues that may not be in your control.
In today's episode, our guest, Billy Hanes, shares his insights into the B2B eCommerce journey for a construction distribution business. He also shares his insights into different ways of integrating ERP and eCommerce and how to make a decision when overlapping functionality may exist in these systems. Finally, he shares the best practices of managing pricing across channels and how to integrate with Amazon channels in the hybrid scenarios where you might be selling through distributors as well as DTC.
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