Europrint Supply: B2B Trading Platform

2013
Laptop
Europrint Supply: B2B Trading Platform

Technologies

Drupal 7
PHP
CSS

Customer

The client is a large B2B wholesaler trading printers, laptops, smartphones, and office supplies. Trading negotiations ran manually over email, phone calls, and Excel spreadsheets, leaving no reliable way to predict shortages or demand spikes.

Problem

The client needed a trading platform and a storage facility management system to replace the manual process, automate as much of it as possible (including AI-driven demand and shortage prediction), and simplify trading for every party involved.

Solution

CimpleO built a custom system linking supplier onboarding, warehouse operations, and the buyer-facing marketplace into a single platform.

Buying Platform

Each supplier gets a login and can upload an Excel spreadsheet of products for automatic entry into the database. The system checks prices against current listings and flags the offer’s relevance. Once an order is agreed, UPS mailing labels go out to the supplier for delivery to the warehouse, with the UPS API tracking shipment status from there.

Storage Facility Management

Items arriving from suppliers get scanned by barcode, checked against the order, and logged. Missing or extra items show up in a discrepancy report; the administrator closes the order once it’s correct and the stock is shelved. Buyer-side fulfillment runs the same process in reverse. The warehouse sits between every other service in the system, so this step runs automatically without manual intervention.

Admin and Client Management

The system tracks purchase and sales history per seller and buyer, giving each client a statistics view of what they bought or sold and when. It also shows the full warehouse inventory: receipt time, price, and supplier for every item.

Trading Platform

Clients register on the marketplace with search, filtering, and an auction system, plus recommendations based on items they’ve viewed or bought before. A purchase auto-generates an order and invoice; once paid, the warehouse gets notified to pack and ship, and the order closes on buyer confirmation.

Result

CimpleO delivered a buying and selling platform paired with warehouse management, automating the trading process end to end for suppliers, buyers, and the warehouse team alike.