Main Challenges
Client
A worldwide manufacturer of Consumer Electronics is required to monitor the products sold in different countries, multiple resellers, and websites for prospective MAP (Minimum Advertised Price) violations.
A lot of people have been purchasing electronics online these days and it has increased to total e-commerce websites also. Each country has different e-commerce sites that deal with millions of people every day. Global brands have to monitor competitors and also search for the retailers, who are violating the MAP.
MAP is the brand set for products as well as anticipates the retailers to not selling their products under this price. MAPs are having different uses, which include guarding the Brand Identity.
Our customers had thousands of products getting sold across different websites in various countries. The client was manually monitoring MAP violations that were turned out to be a slower and costly exercise.
They were required to make a dashboard, which permitted their team to effortlessly identify a seller violating the MAP. To make the dashboard, they required data access from all websites, which their products were registered on.
They had trouble in selecting between setting up the in-house solutions or outsourcing that to the professional. Creating an in-house solution intended they need to hire developers that had experience in creating scrapers as well as collecting data. Also, they were required to set a technology infrastructure, which could scale up to different countries as well as different websites. That might be followed by creating scalable solutions, maintaining scrapers, dealing with blocking, etc. This entire exercise was proved to be time-consuming and expensive.
So, they have decided to progress with outsourcing the complete procedure to a professional. They were searching for a data provider, which was capable to collect data from different e-commerce sites competently. Because of the ever-increasing nature of the business, they required a solution, which was easily mountable to comprise new products, countries, and websites.
X-Byte MAP Monitoring Solution
X-Byte Enterprise Crawling has offered a customized product monitoring solution that collects data and includes customized dashboards. This allows a manufacturer to recognize MAP violations and send notices to different retailers.
Our solution has assisted in automating the whole procedure of recognizing and fading violations, which was formerly a slower, manual, and expensive procedure.
X-Byte Enterprise Crawling has helped monitor 5,000+ products sold in 8 countries using 25 websites daily to recognize MAP violations.
X-Byte Enterprise Crawling Helps Monitoring MAP Violations
The client was impressed by X-Byte Enterprise Crawling’s response time and valued the calls we had at the early stage, which assisted them in making a decision quicker and resulted in signing up in a few weeks.
X-Byte Enterprise Crawling assisted in finalizing the sites to get crawled and crawling frequency. It was trailed by creating crawlers for every website depending on requirements and starting the sample data collection procedure. Following the support of sample data, complete data was collected. After that, the products on different websites were matched depending on unique identifiers to make a monitoring procedure easier. When the customers accepted the complete data, the crawlers were scheduled to collect data on a weekly basis.
The entire procedure took about a month to set up and automate. The current cost of collecting data is a fraction of what was charged by a few of the key MAP monitoring services. However, the largest benefit was the solution’s scalability, the ability to quickly and easily increase or decrease the total number of products and websites monitored. This allowed them to rapidly scale the monitoring services to new markets.
Customized Data Collection With X-Byte Enterprise Crawling
X-Byte Enterprise Crawling is the leading provider of data scraping services worldwide. Leading companies depend on X-Byte Enterprise Crawling to deliver data according to their particular requirements.
The customized nature of services helps X-Byte Enterprise Crawling provide solutions that best serve a customer’s requirements. X-Byte Enterprise Crawling assists in accessing data from websites in real-time with a customized web scraping API and offers RPA solutions that help automate time-consuming physical work.
