Klatu's e-Commerce Engine Differentiates Between Imported and Locally Sourced Products, Calculating Importation and Landed Costs Accordingly
New functionality permits e-store to automatically calculate importation and landed costs only on imported products. An e-store may include local and imported tangible (hardware or software) products as well as intangible products such as licenses, courseware and service and support packages.
Klatu's eCom e-commerce platform has been enhanced to differentiate between a local catalog (already nationalized products) and a catalog of products that must be imported from another country. Products may be tangible (hardware and software) or intangible (software licenses, service, support and other warranty plans).
The reseller may buy local (nationalized) products from a local distributor or other supplier, or import and stock them. The underlying engine allows the e-store to display these products as a separate catalog or within the e-store's main IT catalog. In either case, the e-store displays these products as "local" at the product line level, differentiating them as readily available. Markup levels are a catalog attribute so products in a separate catalog can be marked up differently.
In either case, the customer may select from both kinds of products and complete a single purchase. The reseller may also choose to deactivate the imported product while local stock is available or allow the customer to select based on price and delivery time. The customer may also use this mechanism to auto-replenish inventory by sourcing the order from inventory and using the customer's orders for replenishment.
The same mechanism permits a reseller to add non-product offerings such as maintenance plans, support plans, customized bundles, and any combination of products or services that the reseller wants to combine for sale. Other functionality within the e-commerce engine allows the reseller to associate these products with other products, creating an unlimited cross-sell platform that combines imported products with local products or service and support packages. This also enables the reseller to associate third party warranty providers.
A reseller could sell and bundle an imported notebook with a manufacturer service-support plan (such as HP's CarePaq support packages, and offer a locally taught course on using Microsoft Windows®. The e-store uses this differentiating mechanism to properly manage and price all products and services, regardless of origin or type.
About Klatu
Klatu delivers complete international e-commerce business solutions throughout Latin America. Since 1999, Klatu Inc. has focused on IT and Consumer Electronics resellers and is the only international ASP solution provider. eCom, the underlying engine integrates CNET's highly structured content and images with pricing and availability information from major supply chain partners. The functionality includes product pricing and availability, multiple payment methods, a pricing engine, product filtering, multiple INCOTERM pricing, landed-cost pricing, multiple languages, and currencies. The resulting solution is powerful, affordable, and easily customized to a customer's requirements. For more information, please visit www.klatu.net or e-mail us at info@klatu.net
CarePaq is either a trademark and/or service mark or registered trademark and/or service mark of Hewlett Packard. For more information about HP's CarePaq support packages, please visit HP's website at www.hp.com. Microsoft Windows® is either a trademark and/or service mark or registered trademark and/or service mark of Microsoft Corporation. For more information about Microsoft Corporation or Microsoft Windows, please visit www.microsoft.com
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