How to speed up your sourcing for natural ingredients?

Author: Emilie Leconte
Published On:
September 27, 2018

The sourcing for natural ingredients step is key for a good many projects but it is also extremely time consuming. And if the solution lies in using a BtoB e-commerce platform? We would like to explain how a natural ingredients e-commerce website can provide significant time saving at each sourcing step!

 

Step 1: Identifying the right ingredients

Whatever the advances in product development, a BtoB e-commerce platform can facilitate the sourcing for natural ingredients. In fact, it allows you to access and sort through a vast catalogue of products at any time in different ways depending on your needs.

For example, the natural ingredients e-platform developed by Natural Origins offers by default a sorting by name in alphabetical order (from A to Z). This can then be finetuned according to different factors:

  • the product range of natural ingredients: herbs, powders, bee hive products, etc. …
  • health benefits if applicable: joints, well-being, circulation, women’s well-being, men’s well-being, digestion, fatigue, immunity, memory
  • the ingredients typology, or more precisely its compliance to Organic Farming standards;
  • the price via an ascending or descending order sorting system.

 

Step 2: Analysis of natural ingredients

Once the ingredient(s) chosen, their suitability to your product can be quickly assessed. In fact, a BtoB e-commerce platform can constitute an extensive product database.

If we take the product sheet on royal jelly on the Natural Origins e-platform for example, it’s possible to consult the following information at any time:

  • the product origin;
  • the organoleptic properties;
  • the physico-chemical characteristics;
  • the nutritional composition;
  • the quality analyses results;
  • compliance with regulatory standards;
  • storage conditions.

 

Step 3: Purchase of raw materials

When the natural ingredients have fulfilled all of the specifications’ criteria, the BtoB e-commerce website changes functions and becomes a mail order purchase facilitator. It accompanies sales support and thus speeds up the order taking process.

A BtoB e-commerce platform improves the purchasing process in several ways. In the case of the Natural Origins e-platform, this enables:

  • a real time overview of stock inventory;
  • an estimated delivery lead time;
  • permanent access to order history.

 

Special cases: personalised support

Of course, all projects are different. A BtoB e-commerce platform must take into account as many factors as possible to meet customer needs, as precisely as possible. It can also be supplemented by tailor-made support.

This is exactly what the Natural Origins natural ingredients e-platform offers. In addition to an online reference catalogue, this e-commerce platform offers:

  • assistance with on-line purchases, including non-standard requests;
  • composition assistance with possibility of developing a new dosage form, to designing a product upon request…
  • a quick request for samples using a dedicated button on the product sheet.

 

Feel free to consult the Natural Origins natural ingredients e-platform to discover how this can help you save time with your sourcing.

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Emilie Leconte

Key accounts manager & product manager

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