B2B eCommerce Customer Experiences

Perfecting Customer Experiences

B2B and Wholesale

B2B & Wholesale

Why B2B Customer Experiences Matter

Customers are expecting more from their digital experience in eCommerce and B2B is no exception. Creating the perfect customer experience and understanding how to improve the digital customer journey is essential for B2B brands and is no longer a nice to have.

 

According to research by Qualtrics, 65% of B2B customers say their B2B experiences don’t match their customer experiences – with 96% of customers saying their experience affects whether they’ll repurchase.

 

The B2B sector has been forced to reevaluate everything that makes up its online operations but it's equally as important to invest in the improvement of the online user experiences, from faster loading speeds, and effortless navigation to an easy checkout process.

 

It is now more important than ever to shift away from the traditional approaches to purchasing and elevate your customers' experiences online. The best brands are those that can provide their customers with a friction-free, buyer-first experience. 

According to research by Qualtrics, 65% of B2B customers say their B2B experiences don’t match their customer experiences – with 96% of customers saying their experience affects whether they’ll repurchase. It’s key to get your strategy right.

Overcoming dead ends

The B2B Challenge

The B2B world is complex, and creating an excellent customer-first digital strategy comes with some hurdles along the way. We surveyed our customers to uncover the challenges that are limiting B2B brands from reaching their potential. From our discussions, we gathered that it often starts with teams not having the right fundamentals in place to enable their digital strategy.

The top 3 challenges B2B brands are facing in 2022 are:

1. Personalising the customer journey

Many decision-makers are involved in B2B purchases. How do you personalise for each customer's needs?
Personalising the customer journey

1. Legacy systems + Data Silos

Legacy systems do not speak to each other. They are built to tackle specific issues, making it difficult to see the big picture.
Legacy systems + Data Silos

1. C-level Buy-in

To enable digital growth, teams need buy-in from the C-level. With multiple stakeholders, this makes it more difficult for ideas to come to fruition. 
C-level Buy-in

1. Personalising the customer journey

Many decision-makers are involved in B2B purchases. How do you personalise for each customer's needs?
Personalising the customer journey

1. Legacy systems + Data Silos

Legacy systems do not speak to each other. They are built to tackle specific issues, making it difficult to see the big picture.
Legacy systems + Data Silos

1. C-level Buy-in

To enable digital growth, teams need buy-in from the C-level. With multiple stakeholders, this makes it more difficult for ideas to come to fruition. 
C-level Buy-in

Win over the board

Delivering next level CX

We enable you with the skills to navigate the board

For you to provide next-level customer experience, you need to get the fundamentals right first. From understanding your customers, managing change adoption and digital transformation to overcoming data silos, progressing through each stage has its own obstacles. With over 20 years of CX expertise, we enable your business to overcome the challenges faced when implementing your digital strategy.
Delivering next level CX

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The key challenges holding back your organisation

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What the future of B2B eCommerce looks like 

Electronik Conrad: Mehr Auswahl, geringere Prozesskosten

Vor der Einführung seines Marktplatzes bot Conrad ein rund 800.000 Artikel umfassendes Sortiment. Fünf Jahre später sind es bereits über 7 Millionen Produktangebote von mehr als 650 Herstellern und Distributoren, die ihre Ware über den Conrad Marketplace vertreiben. Bei Conrad Electronic hat man sich deshalb für ein kuratiertes Marktplatzmodell entschieden und somit das Angebot ideal auf die Kundenbedürfnisse ausgerichtet.

Douglas: ein führender europäischer Premium-Beauty-Händler

Douglas, einer der führenden europäischen Premium-Beauty-Händler, verzeichnete seit dem Start seines Online-Marktplatzes ein exponentielles Wachstum. Das Angebot hat sich in 2 Jahren vervielfacht und umfasst heute über 100.000 Produkte. Mit seiner Plattformstrategie bewältigte Douglas die Coronavirus-Pandemie und steigerte dank Mirakl-Technologie die Anzahl seiner Produkte und Partner erheblich.

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Innovate your B2B brand at scale

KPS helps you simplfy your operations, eliminate complexities and allows you to deliver exeptional Customer Experiences with SAP Commerce Cloud. Voted SAP's Customer Experience Partner of the year at last years SAP Pinnacle Award, our team can help you implement the best CX solution to enable growth. Our involvement with large global B2B brands and wholesalers with a complex mix of data sources, organisation structures, and diverse customer segments, has allowed us to become specialists delivering excellent customer experiences, no matter the complexity. 

KPS plays an important role in helping deliver our eCommerce platforms, understanding our customers and developing, optimising and unifying their experience by helping us achieve a 360 view across channels.
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With our industry-leading know-how and passion for successful transformations, we develop B2B eCommerce solutions that increase sales, boost conversion rates and deliver excellent customer experiences.


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Saint Gobain Case Study

From brick and mortar to online orders

We took Saint Gobain from brick and mortar to online orders, rolling out 6 B2B building brands in under a year on SAP Commerce Cloud.  The new e-commerce site, developed on SAP Commerce Cloud, has seen double the number of page views compared to the previous site, and a whopping 185% increase in account openings by tradespeople across Great Britain since the new site launch.
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Mirka

Next generation B2B omnichannel experience

A cross-border hybrid KPS team worked to help Mirka redesign its B2B customer portal. with an archaic legacy online store slowing them down, Mirka wanted to create an omnichannel experience that would allow them to grow and interact with their customers at a deeper level.
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Brakes

Digital Innovations to make customers' lives easier

Brakes completed our Digital Acceleration Programme (DAP) for the second time. Having already made strides to improve its offering in phase one, Brakes commented that the second iteration of DAP had "further consolidated and reinforced the previous work done." The DAP has been vital in assisting this traditional B2B supplier in developing a customer experience that echoes the very best features of B2C eCommerce websites.

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