Case Study: E-commerce for B2B ‒ Professional shopping experience around table culture
Berndorf Luzern is a company of the Markus Hans Group. It develops kitchenware and food distribution systems for the catering and hotel industry and produces its own cutlery brand «Berndorf Luzern».
The Markus Hans Group needed for its subsidiary Berndorf Luzern an online store equipped with a wide range of functions and overall optimized e-commerce processes with a continuous customer journey. In a successful project, a modern webshop based on Pimcore was created with optimized UI/UX design, numerous features and detailed filter functions.
Customer Details
Customer Key Facts
80
Employees 40 000
Products 3
Countries Challenge
30 000 articles were to be presented professionally
The primary goal was to transport Berndorf’s passion for tableware into the e-commerce world. More than 30,000 articles with a wide range of variants and accessories for the catering and hotel industry for B2B customers were to be presented professionally. We wanted to showcase Berndorf’s professionalism and comprehensive product range in an ideal way. Detailed filter functions and product comparison options, B2B commerce functions such as display of discount and price rules and an intuitive UI and UX were required.
Solution
Comprehensive e-commerce platform created
The basis for successful e-commerce is data quality, both for product information and the surrounding content. The first phase of the project was therefore about building and completing the Pimcore modules PIM, DAM, DXP, CMS as well as CAT. We created a complex PIM system to manage and enrich the article data transferred from the ERP. On this basis ‒ the heart of the e-commerce solution ‒ we then implemented a B2B store with extensive individual requirements. It is intuitive to use and offers a large number of filter and comparison options. The e-commerce platform is based on Coreshop, Elastic Search and a special layout bundle.
Results
Customer journey and significantly simplified store management
Customers experience a continuous customer journey in Berndorf’s online store: strong brand presentations, effective search, filter and product comparison options, simple ordering process and comprehensive support. The always up-to-date product detail pages provide B2B customers with all purchase-determining information, and users encounter a clear and aesthetic environment. Management of the store and data maintenance in the background have been massively simplified.
Key Results
60%
Shortened Time to market 20%
higher market penetration