An electronics distributor: supplier price lists analysed instead of compared by hand
Here the platform is not about the shelf but about buying. A distributor holds dozens of price lists in different formats, and the question is always the same: who is cheaper for this line right now, and what changed since last time.
- data source
- supplier price lists
- formats
- XLSX and CSV
- retail features
- not used
How it was before
- Price lists arrive in different formats and get compared by hand in a spreadsheet.
- The same part is named differently by each supplier, and matches are found by eye.
- A price change is noticed once the invoice is already issued.
What runs now
Supplier files are read into one format: item, price, availability, lead time. Whatever fails to parse is shown rather than silently dropped.
The same part is reconciled across price lists by code and name — with human confirmation wherever the match is inexact.
Not just unit price: minimum lot, availability and lead time sit on the same row.
The result exports as a file in the shape the buyer already works with — no retraining on a new interface.
What we found on the way
Without barcodes, matching decides everything
In electronics one part is named three ways by three suppliers. Unattended auto-matching here is more dangerous than having no comparison at all.
Not every client needs the whole platform
A distributor has no shelf, no locations and no allocation — trying to sell them the inventory layer would be selling air. Exactly one piece runs, and that is fine.
What is still open
- Price history is incomplete: some suppliers send their lists irregularly.
- Auto-ordering and the supplier layer have not been launched here and are not planned soon.
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