The challenge
The distributor sells MRO and property-supply products to business accounts that expect their own pricing, purchase-order checkout, and a catalog always in sync with the ERP that runs the business. Because their customers depend on the store to keep facilities stocked, it has to be reliable and recoverable - downtime isn't an option.
Account pricing & POs
Business accounts expect their own contract pricing and purchase-order checkout - not a consumer cart.
ERP-synced catalog
The catalog, pricing and inventory have to stay in sync with the ERP that runs the business.
Reliable & recoverable
Customers depend on the store to keep facilities stocked, so downtime and data loss aren't acceptable.
What we built
A heavily customized, self-hosted AspDotNetStorefront B2B platform, integrated with the distributor's ERP - each capability answering a specific operational stake above.
- ◆Account-based B2B commerceCustomer-level pricing, purchase orders, and account self-service across a 4,800-product catalog and 535 suppliers.
- ◆Epicor Prophet 21 (P21) integrationProducts, pricing, inventory, and orders kept in sync with the ERP as the system of record, over its REST API.
- ◆Enterprise-grade hostingA GCP deployment with split application and database servers, a hardened security edge, and encrypted off-site backups.
- ◆A documented Disaster Recovery planRecovery objectives, four disaster scenarios, and tested procedures, because this store is mission-critical to the distributor's customers.
Results
Seven years in production, six figures of orders, a deep ERP integration and a tested recovery plan - and the distributor owns the platform outright: code, data, and hosting.
"The store stays perfectly in step with our Epicor P21 system, and knowing there's a tested disaster-recovery plan behind it lets us treat it as the critical infrastructure it is."
- Head of E-commerce, US MRO / property-supply distributor (illustrative - attribution pending client approval)
Why it matters
This engagement is B2B distribution at real scale and real stakes: six figures of orders, a deep ERP integration, and disaster-recovery discipline that treats the store as mission-critical infrastructure - all on a platform the distributor owns.
