Software company for uniform trade and logistics Shoppingcart.com together with punchout integration provider Greenwing technology.
The collaboration has been designed to make eProcurement easier and more efficient for institutional buyers such as universities, government agencies and large corporations, said a Thursday (December 26) press release.
“By combining the robustness of Cart.com B2B trading platform Thanks to Greenwing Technology’s advanced punchout integration, this collaboration enables suppliers and distributors to connect directly to buyers’ eProcurement systems,” the release said. “Popular platforms such as SAP Ariba, Coupa and Jaggaer are now seamlessly supported, making purchasing workflows faster and easier for everyone involved.”
Earlier this year, Cart.com announced it was opening its own warehouse and… transportation management systems available as stand-alone offerings.
These modules – Constellation WMS and Constellation TMS – joined the company’s distributed order management system, known as Constellation OMS, as standalone software-as-a-service (SaaS) offers, and can be used separately or together.
“Constellation has been the critical software foundation for Cart.com’s proprietary network of fulfillment centers across the U.S. for many years,” says Cart.com Founder and CEO Omar Tariq said in a press release at the time. “I am confident that our modern technology will make this possible both traders and warehouse operators to achieve better performance and improved performance experience for their customers.”
In other B2B purchasing news, PYMNTS wrote earlier this month about the rise of B2B marketplaces as a preferred sales channel. It’s a trend tied to payment innovations and the ability of B2B customers to manage their entire purchasing lifecycle from one place.
“The less sellers who you need to talk to, the more efficient the system becomes for everyone,” Shep HickeyCEO at Metal Digital Marketplace Bryzostold PYMNTS in October.
ChemDirect President Dave Haase told PYMNTS in an interview last year: “A lot of people don’t want to buy from 30 or 40 different ones sellers. They want to be able to consolidate that with a few suppliers, as few as possible … To differentiate ourselves, we need to make it truly seamless to buy and have a pricing structure that is completely transparent.”
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