The Distributor’s Commerce Solution
Ready. Set. KIBO Go.
Meet KIBO Go, a pre-composed commerce solution built by Smith with distributors in mind. KIBO Go was designed to simplify the complexity of B2B Commerce and accelerate time to market.
Go faster with Kibo Go.
01. Realize Business Value
Because Kibo Go exists exclusively for distributors and wholesalers, it contains everything you need and nothing you don’t. Essential warehouse management tools provide end-to-end visibility and efficient order routing, augmenting your ERP’s capabilities without duplicating them. Foster one-to-one relationships with customer-specific catalogs and pricing.
02. Accelerate Digital Transformation
Benefit from a custom solution built for your needs without building one. Kibo Go lets you quickly spin-up a proof-of-concept and dramatically shortens launch cycles compared with traditional commerce builds. With its composable framework in place, Kibo Go enables easy decoupling and integration of point solutions, bringing flexibility to your tech stack and enabling continuous innovation. Now you can move at speed and keep your business one step ahead of the competition.
03. Enable Omnichannel Growth
Kibo Go enhances the impact digital commerce has on every sales channel. Empower customers with self-service ordering and account tools. Elevate service by providing customer success teams with real-time account information. Quoting and complex catalog management tools increase field sales efficiency and enable each rep to build meaningful one-to-one relationships. With Kibo Go, businesses like yours can spur internal and customer adoption and migrate order flow to streamlined digital channels, lowering ongoing operating costs and long-term TCO.
Eric Lessard
VP of Alliances at Kibo
“Distributors have unique needs, and Kibo Go, developed in close partnership with Smith, is built to meet them. Combining Kibo’s end-to-end B2B capabilities with Smith’s expertise, Kibo Go enables distributors to scale digital channels, optimize order routing, and drive improved ROI and lower TCO.“
Kibo Go for B2B Commerce
Kibo Go leverages Kibo’s B2B Commerce, Inventory Visibility and Routing, and Search Modules alongside Builder.io’s Visual CMS and Coveo to give you your most efficient B2B tech stack yet.
B2B eCommerce Platform with Rich Capabilities
When you’re able to manage and improve your daily functions in a no-code user-friendly UI, you can get the most out of your data and improve customer experiences across the board.
Complex Catalog Management
Support unique cataloging requirements such as source codes, minimum purchase amounts, bundling, and more.
Site Search
Enable buyers to seamlessly search products, technical specifications, or other information.
Quotes & Pricing
Use the BPM to create custom workflows to approve quotes and maintain unlimited price lists.
Purchase & Payment
Reduce frictions with quick reorder tools, manage tax requirements and enable B2B-specific payments.
Customer Accounts
Assign purchasing roles within customer accounts to define authorizations and spending limits at the user level.
Field Sales Tools
Initiate, negotiate, and convert quotes to orders and complete job requisition lists with product bundling.
Inventory Management
Manage real-time inventory across all nodes and segments and allocate by region, customer, channel, and more.
Order Routing
Automate order routing and use routing extensibility to control costs like product profit margin or turn aged inventory.
Fulfillment
Improve fulfillment time and labor costs with pick-lists and wave-picking or cluster picking.
Cloud Native
Multi-Tenant SaaS with backwards compatible automatic upgrades and flexible tenant deployment options.
Security & Scalability
PCI DDS Level 1 compliant; Soc 2 Type 2 Certified, user authentication, vulnerability identification, and more
Pre-Built Integrations
Utilize pre-built integrations on the Kibo marketplace for ERP, WMS, PIM, and more.
Simplify the Management of B2B Commerce Across Functions
Centralize your commerce operations using B2B eCommerce solutions that turn your data into sustainable growth.
Modular Order Management Capabilities
Incrementally implement modules that simplify your eCommerce order management challenges.
Scaling your eCommerce operations is made easy by putting the power back in your hands with a modular eCommerce order management system. With Kibo, businesses are empowered with the tools they need to enable network-wide inventory visibility and launch fulfillment programs like dropship or BOPIS. You’re also given the flexibility to fine-tune routing to balance customer demands with operational costs and allocate future stock and in-transit inventory when ready.
Manage account data & order histories from a centralized system:
- Set permissions to view, edit or approve customer account data, quotes and contract management
- Create orders, complete draft carts, or allocate inventory in transit for purchase
- Allow reps to handle replacements, offer substitutions, and give appeasements
Daily operations made easy with a unified view in a single dashboard:
- Aggregate and analyze data across all inventory locations, sales channels, and customer accounts in real-time
- Track & manage revenue, inventory, fulfillment rates, product performance, and more
- Receive automated alerts when your named conditions on a given report are met
Modular Order Management Capabilities
Incrementally implement modules that simplify your eCommerce order management challenges.
Scaling your eCommerce operations is made easy by putting the power back in your hands with a modular eCommerce order management system. With Kibo, businesses are empowered with the tools they need to enable network-wide inventory visibility and launch fulfillment programs like dropship or BOPIS. You’re also given the flexibility to fine-tune routing to balance customer demands with operational costs and allocate future stock and in-transit inventory when ready.
Control and Curate Search Experiences
Unleash seamless filtering, relevant results, and enhanced merchandising.
Kibo’s eCommerce site search solution enables streamlined data management, dynamic merchandising, and lightning-fast intelligent search results.
Combine Inventory Data & Search
- Easy filtering and search of inventory by type and fulfillment
- Improved inventory turnover with searchandize capabilities
Enable Complex Product Searches
- SKU, model numbers, related products, and more
- Relevant content in results like how-to videos
Lightning-Fast Intelligent Results
- Accurate, real-time results using neural text classification, named entity recognition, and semantic search
Manage Search Campaigns
- Scheduled promotions
- Product pin, boost or bury based on product ratings or profit margin
Gain Actionable Insights
- Pre-built and customizable reporting
- Better supply chain decisions based on search data like customer demand
Fine-Tuned & Intuitive Search Experience
- Type-ahead suggestions and synonyms and index weightings for product fields
- Boost or bury products based on what’s more in stock and at the inventory location level
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