How our webshop lets you move with the market
You won't be the first: temperatures drop below zero, and your supply of warm snowboots is running a little thin. Or that new color rain boot runs a lot harder than expected. No problem. With our webshop stock, we want to relieve you of the pressure on your own stock. In the webshop you can easily order the products you can use in your store 24/7. Ordered on weekdays is shipped the same day. And our customers benefit from this.
Evelien van den Broek is the owner of Shoes van den Broek in Castricum. 125m2 specialty store from which she looks out over the dunes. She has a small warehouse, and sizes for each model are displayed in the store. Evelien: "I only have a limited number of racks, so my own stock can't be too large.
More suitable supply through diversity in webshop stock
Everysix months, Evelien orders about eight or nine models from our sales manager Bart Roossink at the trade show: 'Is a model running well? Then I order sold sizes after through the B2B webshop. If someone doesn't like the red Grisport Bari Mid I have, I can hide the purchase prices in the shop and show my customer other colors. Or if I don't have an immediate fit for a very narrow foot, I'll let the customer know I'm going to do a quick search in the shop, and then get in touch. People come to us from all over the region with specific needs, and no two feet are the same. I want people to step out the door with confidence.
"So thanks to the webshop stock, we run a little less risk if the weather is disappointing."
Less risk through webshop stock at Antar Shoe
Joost Mourmans, buys at Etrias for several online specialty stores. He uses our webshop for reordering popular models: 'Twice a year I go to the showroom. There I talk through the entire collection with your sales manager and I make the best possible estimate for the pre-order. But we also know: additional ordering is part of the deal. Especially for seasonal products like snowboots and Bergstein rain boots.'
'I often have the whole new collection delivered after the summer. To present a nice, broad picture with all the new arrivals. For October, November and December I then plan backorders for the most popular models, in order to deepen. And in addition, in a good season we order 60% more, for example: a speculation we fortunately do not have to make with pre-orders. So thanks to the webshop stock, we run a little less risk if the weather is disappointing.'
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And that webshop itself, how do you like it?
Evelien picks a set time for the webshop, placing an order of ten to twenty pairs every Sunday: 'It is one of the best B2B webshops. Everything is clear: quantity, prices, description, waterproofness and sole type... Only a description of width is what I miss! And if I doubt whether I had already ordered certain models, I can easily check it under 'Orders'.
Joost: "The webshop is like Antar itself. Well organized, clear, fast, and the best feature of the webshop is that there is often stock for a long time. In addition, with Black Friday we often work through the weekend. If you then place an order on a Saturday evening, the numbers in stock are immediately reserved for you and processed on Monday morning!'
