Introduction

If you are a manufacturer or supplier of engineering spare parts, we have developed variations of our collaborative solutions to suit your particular needs. You may have been requested to link to the sparesFinder service by one of your major customers, or you may simply be seeking a quick, simple and cost-effective e-commerce solution. Either way, you will benefit from making your spare parts inventory visible in all searches being made by our subscribers, a group made up primarily of the people that want to purchase your equipment.

If you wish to invest in more sophisticated solutions in the future we have established partnerships with leading software vendors to ensure a smooth transition without losing the benefits of membership of the sparesFinder community.

Service Description

Our Supplier Enablement service uses the same database and operating technology as the VPI service, but offers a much more bespoke interface. This is published directly on your own website, allowing you to retain your own corporate branding and identity while benefiting from our market-leading hosted database and interface technology.

Only your data will be displayed to those accessing your spare parts service from your website. We recommend that you also make your data available to all our other subscribers and in this case results are identified as being held by a supplier, which will often be the most convenient purchase for subscribers to make.

You can choose to configure your installation in 2 ways:
   • Open access for all browsers at you website. Although you will get high level statistics on searches, you will not control who can see your data. It may suit your business practice to allow casual browsers to view and potential purchase your spares.

   • Password Controlled Access. You control to whom you issue passwords and can track individual usage. With this configuration you will be able to negotiate transactions directly with your customers and monitor their needs.

Business Benefits
In addition to the core benefits which result from VPI, our Supplier Enablement service offers:

• Extended access to your inventory information
• Improved customer satisfaction
• Increased customer base by using a new channel
• A simple, cost effective e-procurement solution