Case study · Industrial parts and MRO
Clean a million-SKU catalogue and stop quoting below cost
A long-tail MRO catalogue carried duplicate SKUs, missing attributes and stale supplier costs, so quotes were slow and sometimes below landed cost. DataplexLabs normalised the catalogue, refreshed supplier cost feeds and gave quoting teams live cost-to-serve on every line.
An industrial parts and MRO distributor
Client details are anonymized at the client's request.
The challenge
- Millions of long-tail SKUs with inconsistent descriptions, units and manufacturer attributes.
- Supplier cost updates arrived as spreadsheets and PDFs, weeks behind the market.
- Quotes were built on stale cost, so some lines shipped below landed cost.
What we did
- 1
Normalised product attributes, units and manufacturer data into one searchable catalogue.
- 2
Automated ingestion of supplier price files and PDF cost letters with exception review.
- 3
Built a quoting view showing landed cost, contract terms and margin floor per line.
Results
Searchable, deduplicated catalogue that sales and ecommerce share.
Supplier cost changes visible within days, not weeks.
Below-floor quote lines flagged before they are sent.
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