Introduction to B2B for Aladdin Website
Unlike the standard business-to-consumer model, Out integrated B2B (Business to Business) features are designed to meet the needs of our customers that are companies. It accommodates companies with complex organizational structures and multiple users with various roles and levels of purchasing permission. A typical B2B customer might be a buyer that makes purchases on behalf of a company.
Company accounts
The Company component is the key entity within B2B on which all other features are in some way dependent. It allows joining multiple buyers that belong to the same company into a single company account (or corporate account). The company administrator is able to build the company structure (divisions, subdivisions, and users) in the appropriate hierarchy and provide different user roles and permissions to the company members. This hierarchy allows the company administrator to control user activity for the company account: ordering, quoting, purchasing, access to company credit information or profile, and so on. A seller can configure how the buying company operates on the website, including the payment methods, pricing levels, the ability to negotiate prices, and the ability to create requisition lists.
For more information, see Company Accounts.
Services for Company accounts
Our Services that support B2B workflows are:
• Catalog Service
• Live Search
• Product Recommendations
Shared catalogs
Shared catalogs are the pricing levels that Aladdin can set custom prices per product for different companies on Aladdin websites. By using shared catalogs, Aladdin can sell products by applying different pricing levels for our customer groups. Support for Shared catalogs is available only for Company accounts.
Quick Order
Configure Quick Order to reduce the order process to several clicks for logged in customers when they know the product name or SKU of the products they want to order.
For more information, see Quick Orders.
Negotiable Quotes
Use the Quotes feature to initiate price negotiation between a company buyer and Aladdin salespersons.
• An authorized buyer can initiate a quote from the shopping cart.
• Aladdin salespersons can initiate a quote for a buyer from Admin.
Buyers and Aladdin salespersons use the quote to manage the negotiation process–such as adding items, updating quantities, requesting and applying discounts—until they reach an agreement. The Quotes grid in the Admin lists each quote received, and maintains a history of the communication between buyer and seller.
Support for Negotiable Quotes is available only for Company accounts.
Purchase order approvals
When Purchase Orders are activated for a company account, all orders are automatically created as Purchase Orders (PO). Company users with the required permissions can create, edit, and delete POs that they create and POs created by subordinate users. Depending on their role, and the order, company users could be subjected to several approval rules.
For more information, see Purchase Orders for Companies.
Requisition lists
Customers can use requisition list to save time when purchasing frequently ordered products because they can add items to the shopping cart directly from the list. They can maintain multiple lists that focus on products from different vendors, buyers, teams, campaigns, or anything else that streamlines their workflow.
For more information, see Requisition Lists.