Focusing On the Unique Needs of Industry Segments with An All-Inclusive E-Commerce Approach
Across the trucking landscape, freight transportation models are continually changing. Driven by economic and industry issues and factors, motor carriers are modifying or refocusing their businesses and operations to meet new and changing needs, and to remain competitive and profitable.
One of the biggest impacts in recent years has resulted from what’s called “omni-channel sales” whereby retailers and wholesalers offer goods through multiple sources. That has also led to steady growth in last mile or final mile deliveries to residential consumers and businesses.
Concurrently, providers of consumer and business products are being tasked with offering immediate availability by employing multiple shipping and delivery options. Consumers, in particular, expect quick deliveries. Call it the Amazon model, if you’d like, but more often than not anything that takes over two days to deliver is now unacceptable, and it’s often expected to be free.
E-commerce is the new model
Across many industries, including commercial vehicle parts markets, the steady rise in e-commerce procurement has forced distributors to reduce their brick and mortar footprint. Re-thinking service offerings, they have turned to online portals, and in the process have led customers to adopt new ways to source parts.
The growth of e-commerce parts sales is also having an effect on how items move through the supply chain. Today, orders are frequently shipped from the distributor, and in some cases from the factory, directly to the customer.
The most successful application of this new approach to finding truck parts is to have concierge level service at your disposal. There’s no substitute for a team of specialists who can assist fleets and service providers with identifying and sourcing commonly used and hard to find parts for trucks, tractors and trailers through a catalog with millions of items.
Another key feature of these e-commerce parts sites is an easy-to-use website with a robust capability to find parts by number, keyword or cross reference.
“One of the biggest challenges is finding parts that are unique to different industry segments that are not always readily available in local inventories. Approximately 20% of all the parts on commercial vehicles fit into that category so fleets and service providers have to use a time consuming process to find and buy them. An e-commerce platform that is interconnected with the supply chain, and has a very robust cross reference engine, can access availability of those items from hundreds of distributors and manufacturers nationwide.”
- David Seewak, CEO & founder, FindItParts
FinditParts is the largest single-source Internet distributor of heavy duty OEM and aftermarket parts. FinditParts is your partner in keeping your heavy duty truck on the road.