Every day, 12,000 Italian retailers of building products consult the price lists of hundreds of companies, browse tables and scroll through heterogeneous and incomparable PDFs. Nothing could be slower, inefficient, with a constant risk of error
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In a world now oriented to digitalization, this is the past.
And in fact, there are those who are already experimenting with the system that is revolutionizing the sector: DPrice, the standard for the digitization and distribution of building lists, which guides the digital transition of construction, launched by Edil294, Archiseller and Sercomated.
Let's compare the two situations, without and with DPrice.
Without DPrice, a retailer receives periodic list updates, in different formats, for each of the 150 companies that resell, archive and manage 5,000 to 30,000 items, with a high risk of error, high management maintenance costs, the need for resources and time, and the impossibility of automating and processing that data.
Not to mention that the socio-economic and health contingencies of recent years have often prevented retailers from promptly updating management systems, forcing them to make sales with very narrow margins or even at a loss.
When receiving from a customer a request for a quote on a product that different companies make, the retailer must open a series of price lists, search each one for that product, unify the information and make values and characteristics comparable. Only then can you prepare the quote.
With DPrice, on the other hand, the source of information is updated in real time thanks to the online platform that can be easily consulted by product categories and by product, there is only one list to consult, the criteria are already uniform, the data are comparable. The retailer is able to automatically synchronize the management software update with all the price lists in the DPrice standard, managing to provide the quote in a very short time and, above all, with no margin of error on the information, because all the data entered in the DPrice circuit are
validated and certified by the manufacturing company.
This scenario is already a reality thanks to the partnership with Sercomated, the company that belongs to Federcomated/ConfCommercio, which provides services to distributors of building materials, and the membership of groups including 4BILD, MADE, MECSTORE and BIGMAT, which have more than 500 stores throughout the country and in all regions and deal with more than 500 brands in the supply chain.
Many stores are already experimenting with DPrice, with great advantages in terms of time, efficiency and competitiveness compared to their competitors.