Multiple Distributors, One Product Search for IT Resellers
A customer needs ten laptops, but your preferred distributor only has four in stock. Now speed matters: Who else carries the same model? How many units are available? And what price does each distributor offer your business?
That’s why many IT resellers and system integrators purchase from multiple distributors. Alongside major suppliers such as TD SYNNEX, ALSO, and Ingram Micro, their supplier networks often include specialized distributors.
If you check each offer individually, you have to open multiple online stores, search for the same product several times, and manually compare prices and stock levels. With ITscope, you can start directly with the product instead.
ITscope lets you compare offers from more than 300 IT distributors at the product level. You can view prices, available quantities, and delivery statuses from different suppliers in one place.
Compare IT Distributors: One Product, Multiple Sources of Supply
When you search for a specific product in ITscope, the product page displays available sources of supply from different distributors in a single overview.
You can immediately see which distributors carry the product, how many units are available, and at what price. ITscope also distinguishes between products that are in stock, incoming, available at an external warehouse, or available on a per-order basis.
For incoming products, you can also see the expected availability date, provided the distributor supplies this information. This helps you quickly determine which supplier can actually deliver the required quantity when a customer sends an inquiry.
Sources of supply on an ITscope product page: In this example, 20 of 26 sources of supply are visible for a Lenovo ThinkPad, including prices, quantities, and availability statuses such as In stock, Soon available, and external stock.
Calculate Using Your Individual Purchase Prices
When calculating your offers, what matters isn’t a generic list price but the actual purchase price your company pays.
In ITscope, you can store individual prices and special conditions from connected distributors. Depending on the distributor, these conditions can be imported directly or uploaded using price lists, for example. This allows you to compare sources of supply based on your actual purchase prices and calculate more accurate quotes.
When Your Preferred Distributor Can't Deliver
If your preferred supplier doesn’t have a product available, the same product page shows which other distributors offer it, at what price, and in what quantity. This saves time, especially when handling urgent customer inquiries. You don’t have to search for the same product separately at TD SYNNEX, ALSO, Ingram Micro, or other distributors.
Depending on availability, you can then decide whether to order from another supplier, split the quantity across multiple distributors, or look for an alternative product.
Find and Compare Alternative IT Products
Sometimes switching distributors isn’t enough. If a particular model is in short supply everywhere or no longer available, your sales team needs an alternative product that meets the customer’s requirements.
ITscope’s Product comparison feature helps you find one. You can compare similar products side by side based on their technical data, highlight differences, and determine which alternative is suitable for the order. Once you’ve found a suitable replacement, you can check its available sources of supply and prices.
With ITscope’s Product comparison feature, you can compare the technical data of IT products side by side and highlight differences at a glance.
Compare TD SYNNEX, ALSO, Ingram Micro, and Other Distributors
Depending on the product, the right source of supply might be a major broadline distributor such as TD SYNNEX, ALSO, or Ingram Micro, or a specialized distributor.
You don’t have to decide which distributor’s online store to visit before starting your search. ITscope displays suppliers directly on the product page, helping you discover sources of supply you might not have considered otherwise.
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From Product Comparison to Ordering
Once you’ve found a suitable source of supply, you can continue the purchasing process directly in ITscope without switching platforms. Orders can be transmitted electronically to connected distributors.
If you also use an ERP integration, product, pricing, and order data can flow directly into your existing workflows. This eliminates the need to enter the same information multiple times.
From searching for products and comparing suppliers to placing orders, ITscope keeps your purchasing process in one place.