When the company first decided to upgrade its B2B commerce experience, it started by implementing the Cenpos gateway. But this required a direct inflow through their websites into the AS Infor A+ system. And there wasn’t any invoice tracking available, leaving the economic records in disarray. There were other challenges as well:
Success Story Healthcare
Medical Instrumentation Brand Leverages Digital To Recapture Market ShareApexon helps increase customer outreach and sales with feature-rich B2B commerce platform 
With more than 15,000 products, this manufacturer offers one of the most comprehensive lines of diamond dental and surgical instrumentation with the goal of meeting the needs of any practice. Its direct-sales model allows it to provide the highest quality instrumentation at competitive prices.
The company takes pride in its loyal customer base. In a blind survey of dental practitioners using diamond dental instruments, it was favored by a 2-to-1 margin over its closest competitor. The company was also rated the #1 diamond brand in innovation, precision, quality, and assortment.
Despite its long-standing market leadership and loyal customer base, the company had fallen behind in its customer payment experience, specifically the payment options it offered. A lack of credit card payment gateways on its multi-site digital platform was increasing the outstanding credit and disrupting the B2B customer experience. So, the company partnered with Apexon to implement a B2B commerce store using the industry-leading B2B Commerce Cloud by Insite.
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Founded in 1976
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A comprehensive line of dental and surgical instrumentation made in the USA
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Direct sales model
the Results
Key Outcomes
Increased market share, brand loyalty, & advocacy
Faster payment cycles as a result of reduced offline payment hassles & manual invoice handling
Improved UI & CX across the organization for a streamlined customer journey
Actionable insights through data analytics within the outstanding & credit structures
The challenge
A LACK OF CREDIT CARD PAYMENT GATEWAYS DISRUPTING THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
Key credit card checkout features such as saved selections, billing addresses and postal codes were lacking
The absence of an invoice-wise structure meant no flexibility in partial payments
Payment cycles were frequently uncoordinated as a result of excessive manual requirements
The lack of a seamless ecommerce experience led to customer distrust and loss of market share
The Solution
B2B PAYMENT GATEWAY & BACKEND INTEGRATION CREATE A MORE CUSTOMER-CENTRIC EXPERIENCE
The CX experts at Apexon took a two-step approach to bring the brand’s core functionalities at par with customer and market expectations.
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Established a backend integration supplementing the Cenpos payment gateway to introduce credit facilities and rebuild the outstanding management system. These included:
Integration with PCA predict for address lookup and validation; Avalara for tax calculations
Integration with ERP Infor A+ for product catalog, pricing, customer, salesperson
Integrations with ERP for Order and Invoice history
Integration with PCA predict for address lookup and validation
Integration with CENPOS for credit card payment
Integration with Google Analytics/GTM
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Developed comprehensive functionality to enhance and streamline the B2B customer experience, including:
A unified view of the invoice history at a single dashboard
A detailed Outstanding Invoices page reflecting real-time balances and pending invoices
Single and multiple invoice selections with pre-populated credit card information
A Pay Account Balance button for one-stop checkout window and saved credit cards
All content and product information aligned with new features to maximize conversions
A comprehensive credit system segregating outstanding lists and credits for one-to-one applications
Best price logic for customers using contract pricing and global promotions
Volume-based pricing rules
Customizations to promotion engine to define new rule types
Sales rep order placement on behalf of customers
New user registration workflow
New Daily Order and New User reports
Apexon also recommended and implemented solutions to improve the site performance through use of caching and modification of static content. We also upgraded the site with the latest patch release for Insite Commerce 4.2 version.
Outcomes
The new B2B website was successfully launched in August 2017 and immediately contributed to the client recapturing lost market share and gaining new share. Some of the specific outcomes include:
Increased market share, brand loyalty, and advocacy
Increased customer outreach and sales through a modern, feature-rich B2B platform
Faster payment cycles as a result of fewer offline payment hassles and reduced manual handling of invoices
Improved UI and CX across the organization for a streamlined customer journey
Actionable insights through data analytics within the outstanding and credit structures