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BUILDERS MERCHANTS JOURNAL
NBG: improving data for Suppliers and Partners
The quest to get the right data, to the right people, in the right format, at the right times just got a lot easier with the developments that NBG, in partnership with NMBS has made to its ground-breaking Hub.
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BG prides itself on being the UK’s most progressive buying group, providing excellent systems which are hassle-free
for merchants and suppliers alike. Now, some major innovations on its Hub, it is the place for merchants to access suppliers’ product information and is completely free to use for both suppliers and NBG Partners. Many independent merchants with small back office teams find uploading supplier information manually a time consuming and inefficient process. The information is rarely in a standard format, mistakes often creep in creating invoice queries, which is an expensive hassle for all concerned. These new developments – especially Merchant Pages - offers NBG merchant Partners a greatly simplified and speedy way to access up- to-date, accurate product and pricing information from NBG suppliers. That’s according to NBG head of IT Matt Green. “NBG has always prided itself on being very proactive in terms of IT, embracing it as a way of making life easier for the Partners and the suppliers,” he says.
“Excellent systems makes it hassle free for everyone and that is what makes us different. “We are striving to go as far ahead as we possibly can with our systems and we have reached a point where we can work proactively with NMBS on the next stage of data mangement.”
Data accuracy With greater data quality comes
greater transparency, with greater transparency comes greater
opportunities to build business between Partners and suppliers.
The latest NBG initiative takes their systems ahead, by some way, of where they might be expected to be. “Our Merchant Pages is a product data portal,” Green says. “We have worked with NMBS on the development of this – it uses their existing Merchant Pages framework.”
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