Would this work for just existing products in the supplier marketplace? Or would it somehow enable custom products to be dropshipped?
The advantages for the retailers seems great but what about advantages for the suppliers? Eventually if enough people started using one supplier, they would have so much inventory they would need another warehouse.
We built it to enable people to onboard their own suppliers to the network, so it works with existing or net new members of the network and everything is centralized either way.
For the suppliers, they're often being asked to participate in lots of different flavors of "vendor enablement" program. Most are oppressive, involve EDI integration, 40 page vendor agreements and opaque invoicing. We're trying to get rid of those things, and ideally give them a way to have one integration for all of this stuff.
The advantages for the retailers seems great but what about advantages for the suppliers? Eventually if enough people started using one supplier, they would have so much inventory they would need another warehouse.