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Prepared for claurie@palmerholland.com | Delivered January 18, 2020
Specialty Chemicals E-commerce Capabilities
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Goals
Obtain a list of North American specialty chemical manufacturers and distributors that have customer-facing e-commerce capabilities. The information will be used to launch a similar customer-facing portal.
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Early Findings
Specialty Chemical Online Store
The
Chemical Store Inc.
has an online store where it sells it specialty chemicals to manufacturers, researchers, and other types of customers.
The company is located in
New Jersey
.
There is
no catalog
featured on its website that lists all the company's products in one file.
The products can be accessed by clicking on the
letters of the alphabet tabs
that correspond to the first letter of the chemical's name.
The
full inventory
at the store level and at the warehouse level seem to be not fully shown as the quantity field for each product was configured to accept only two-digit numbers.
The
pricing data
is shown for each product.
Customers can place an order without contacting the company by
adding the items to their carts
.
Orders can also be tracked using the "
Track My Order
" button at the bottom of the page.
Online Marketplace
The
Thomasnet site
is promoted to be North America's biggest network of B2B customers and industrial vendors.
It
consolidates information on manufacturers
, distributors, service companies, and other players in all types of industry, including specialty chemicals.
However, the site
does not have a typical e-commerce feature
that can let customers order online without contacting the suppliers.
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basic information that the site provides includes the
vendor name, contact number
, location, product or service offerings, ownership, and certification data.
Proprietary Database Search Results
In addition to this public search, we scanned our proprietary research database of over 1 million sources and were unable to find any specific research reports that address your goals
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