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Is Your B2B Company Ready for an Order Management System?
In today’s fast-paced B2B eCommerce landscape, efficient order management is more than just a necessity—it’s a competitive advantage. As the B2B market continues to outpace B2C, the complexity of managing orders has grown exponentially. Many…
What’s the Difference Between Composable and Headless eCommerce?
Headless commerce has set the world of eCommerce alight in recent years, with the ability to separate the delivery of content from the processing of payments and other commerce services–providing marketing, technology, and eCommerce leaders…
How To Avoid Channel Conflict in B2B Commerce
Without a solid channel strategy, eCommerce businesses can derail their path to success. Even the most well-crafted plans can lead to lost sales, strained relationships, and a tarnished reputation if channel conflict arises. Understanding and…
Tap Into Pre-Built Integrations to Streamline B2B Commerce
Gaining momentum is one of the more prominent challenges B2B companies face as they adopt headless and composable commerce strategies. Equally important is maintaining momentum. With a limitless number of options available, it is all…
What Is Unified Commerce—And Why Is It Essential In 2024 and Beyond?
What are the advantages of unified commerce? How does it compare to omnichannel? And how can a unified platform help you succeed in 2021?
The Ultimate eCommerce Guide for Distributors, Manufacturers, and Wholesalers
For distributors, manufacturers, and wholesalers to compete within complex marketplaces, their eCommerce strategy must be solid. The B2B market has seen a significant shift towards online transactions, driven by the need for efficiency, broader reach,…
Overcoming Key Challenges in B2B Order Management
With the growth of B2B eCommerce, omnichannel commerce, as well as the rise in self-service purchases, traditional order management systems fall short in addressing the modern demands of B2B operations. To effectively scale and diversify…
Everything You Need To Know to Optimize Your B2B Customer Experience
Unlike the B2C customer experience, the B2B customer experience involves more complexities that can include longer sales cycles, a team of decision-makers, and in some cases higher stakes. The more competitive the B2B space becomes,…
Unleashing Efficiency and Growth in B2B Distribution
The distribution industry is experiencing unprecedented digital commerce growth, with B2B eCommerce sales expanding by 17% in 2023, reaching just over $2 trillion. This surge underscores the critical importance of digital transformation for distributors and…
B2B eCommerce Trends: 2024 and Beyond
B2B customers want an unbeatable experience from their vendors and expect quick, effortless buying, seamless shopping options, and self-driven convenience. According to McKinsey, they also prefer hybrid selling, which combines in-person, remote, and self-service interactions…
How to Increase Average Order Value
Understanding your customers’ shopping behaviors can help you make more informed decisions around sales and marketing strategies, pricing, inventory management, and more. One of the key metrics companies track to understand customer behavior is average…
Podcast Recap: The Hard Truth About B2B eCommerce
Kibo CEO Ram Venkataraman was recently featured on The Hard Truth About B2B eCommerce Podcast, where he dives into the unique challenges and best practices for B2B eCommerce. You can listen to the episode here or…
How System Architecture Plays a Role in B2B eCommerce Platform Selection
B2B companies stand at the crossroads of innovation and necessity. The key to sustained success lies not only in meeting current demands but also in preemptively embracing future challenges. 59% of B2B businesses are prioritizing…
Your Omnichannel Strategy is Only as Good as Your Inventory Visibility
Inventory visibility is pivotal to a successful omnichannel strategy. By gaining real-time insight into inventory levels across all stores, distribution centers, warehouses, and supplier networks, retailers and manufacturers can promise accurate delivery times, avoid stockouts,…
Guide: How to Choose an eCommerce Platform that Streamlines B2B Selling
Is your B2B company struggling to navigate the complexities of online selling? Look no further! Our comprehensive guide is here to help you select the perfect eCommerce platform that simplifies the intricacies of B2B selling.…
Why B2B Companies Can Build & Buy With a Composable Commerce Approach
Modern commerce technology is necessary for B2B companies that want to streamline operations, improve the customer experience, and unify data across the organization. For many years, the only option was to build a platform in-house,…
B2B eCommerce Checklist: Key Platform Capabilities That Simplify Complex Commerce
Forrester reported that US B2B eCommerce sales reached $1.7 trillion in 2021 and expects this volume to exceed $2 trillion in 2023 and $3 trillion by 2027. While many B2B companies have invested in B2B…
How Manufacturers Can Put eCommerce at the Center of Their Growth Strategy
An increasing number of manufacturers are looking to eCommerce to maintain customer loyalty while in turn reaching new customers this year. Many of these companies are also facing the challenge of evaluating their eCommerce platform…
Why Future Available to Promise is the Answer to Meet Customer Demand
With omnichannel shopping becoming the norm across B2B and B2C sectors, it’s become increasingly important to have seamless operations across channels. One of the critical components of a successful omnichannel experience is the ability to…
How To Effectively Use Omnichannel Order Management
Omnichannel shopping isn’t just a passing trend. It represents the new normal in how B2B and B2C consumers research, purchase, and acquire products. A recent survey of 1200 US consumers found that the majority of…
Interview with PeakActivity CEO About Composable Commerce
Composability, as defined by Gartner, means “creating a business made from interchangeable building blocks.” It’s the foundational concept behind any composable technology, including composable commerce. From the perspective of a digital commerce organization, composability allows each…
Step-by-Step Guide to Replatforming Your eCommerce Solution
The B2B and B2C purchasing journeys are more complex than ever. And as a result, companies are asking themselves if their eCommerce platform can keep up with (and simplify) the complexities needed to meet heightening…
NRF Retail’s Big Show: Day 3 Recap
Day 3 marks the end of another NRF Retail Big Show, but we walk away armed with insights, data, and ideas that will help Kibo and our clients thrive in 2023 and beyond. On the…
Discover the Modular Approach to Unified Headless Commerce Technology
Modern, microservices-based, API-first technology powers our unified headless commerce platform. See how Kibo can change the way you deliver unified customer experiences.
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