Having an eCommerce store to sell to customers is a no-brainer for many businesses, but the benefits of having an internal eCommerce store for employees may be less obvious. Even less obvious still may be the benefits of having an internal webstore for businesses or organizations that don’t use a webstore at all to sell to customers. But if your business or organization has matured beyond “small-business” size, an internal eCommerce webstore can have multiple benefits for the organization as well as employees.
What is an Internal eCommerce Store?
An internal eCommerce store is an online application that centralizes the ordering of internal company supplies, marketing materials and branded merchandise. Thus, instead of employees needing to go outside to many different vendors to fulfill internal-supply needs, they can go to the “company store” to make their purchases.
Advantages of the Internal eCommerce Store Approach
You Can Centralize Your Inventory
Using the eStore Application to organize supplies and merchandise makes ordering and tracking of same much easier. Everyone goes to the same place which also ensures the items ordered meet company standards.
Ensure Efficient and Cost-Effective Fulfillment
Creating an internal store includes specifying how fulfillment will be accomplished and helps avoid items being sent to the wrong place or billed to the wrong department.
You can Reduce or Eliminate Physical Inventory
Many, many items are now producible relatively quickly with print-on-demand capabilities. (Prime Business Solutions offers not just print on demand, but in-house embroidery and screen-printing services, which speeds up delivery of relevant branded merchandise while reducing costs.) Print-on-demand means the materials you do use will be up-to-date; no more shelves of outdated printed materials!
You can Ensure Consistent Branding
Marketing departments often devote a lot of effort to develop branding guidelines for the company logo and company colors. By preselecting what branded merchandise is available in the company store, compliance with these standards can be ensured. (Consistent branding elevates a company’s image.
Prime Business Solutions offers a “fully integrated end-to-end online solution existing in a single, completely customized web portal.” The application enables ordering, fulfillment, inventory summaries, PDF previews, and full mailing services. Call 330-597-8560 to learn how our internal eCommerce application can help you!
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