作者：凱蒂·尹萬思 首席技術(shù)編輯 編譯：托比網(wǎng)
托比編者按：企業(yè)服務(wù)是塊肥肉，不僅創(chuàng)業(yè)公司緊盯該市場。電子零售商把自己內(nèi)部有關(guān)企業(yè)服務(wù)的技術(shù)系統(tǒng)對外銷售也變成了一種趨勢。外貿(mào)銷售網(wǎng)站蘭亭集勢即盯上企服的細(xì)分市場——ERP系統(tǒng)，主推中國市場以增加額外收入流。而這已經(jīng)不是第一個(gè)走上這條路的B2B平臺。
托比編譯必為B2B前沿精品，歡迎轉(zhuǎn)載，請載明出處，否則必糾。
蘭亭集勢，一家總部位于北京的跨境電商平臺，八年前即完成其電商軟件的開發(fā)。而現(xiàn)在他們計(jì)劃銷售這一產(chǎn)品。
蘭亭集勢，排名“2016互聯(lián)網(wǎng)零售商500強(qiáng)”第264位，說：“本月早些時(shí)候，它將售賣其ERP云軟件給其他商家?！?云意味著從蘭亭集勢購買服務(wù)的商家不必再內(nèi)部啟動(dòng)和運(yùn)行軟件，因?yàn)樗峭ㄟ^網(wǎng)絡(luò)托管和存取的。
蘭亭集勢在過去八年中使用該系統(tǒng)并且這一軟件已經(jīng)經(jīng)歷了多次迭代。蘭亭集勢的ERP系統(tǒng)設(shè)計(jì)適用于線上和線下的分銷商，包括零售和批發(fā)業(yè)務(wù)，并負(fù)責(zé)處理訂單，采購，產(chǎn)品分類，供應(yīng)商和庫存管理等職能。 它專為大小型分銷商設(shè)計(jì)，每年處理數(shù)百萬份訂單，并管理數(shù)千家供應(yīng)商。 作為開源軟件，其ERP系統(tǒng)可以配置在主流的云平臺上，包括亞馬遜網(wǎng)站的亞馬遜網(wǎng)絡(luò)服務(wù)（AWS）。
上周，蘭亭集勢推出了中文版本的軟件，并通過AWS的中國數(shù)據(jù)中心部署。 該公司預(yù)計(jì)今年晚些時(shí)候?yàn)閲H用戶推出英語版本。蘭亭集勢為中小型企業(yè)提供免費(fèi)版本，同時(shí)為需要更多安全和數(shù)據(jù)隱私的大型企業(yè)提供付費(fèi)的私有版本。
蘭亭集勢的CEO 郭去疾表示：“我們的ERP系統(tǒng)在過去八年中經(jīng)歷了多次迭代和嚴(yán)格的測試，非常適合線上和線下的分銷商?；谠频腟aaS模式，我們將免費(fèi)向中小企業(yè)展示我們的ERP解決方案是如何革新和顛覆分銷行業(yè)。最初的重點(diǎn)是中國市場， 在這里許多中小企業(yè)分銷商由于成本和復(fù)雜性過去從未使用ERP軟件。我們很快將面向全球客戶推出一個(gè)國際版。
其他電子零售商，包括英國網(wǎng)絡(luò)零售商Ocado（2016歐洲互聯(lián)網(wǎng)零售商500強(qiáng)排名23位）正在將銷售技術(shù)轉(zhuǎn)化為額外的收入流。 例如，Ocado的技術(shù)部門為零售商開發(fā)機(jī)器人、機(jī)器學(xué)習(xí)、模擬、數(shù)據(jù)科學(xué)、預(yù)測和路徑系統(tǒng)等軟件。 它還向其他在線零售商銷售其電子商務(wù)平臺和技術(shù)服務(wù)，包括線上線下同步售賣的第四大雜貨商英國Morrisons超市。
備注：蘭亭集勢（Lightinthebox）是國內(nèi)一流的外貿(mào)銷售網(wǎng)站，成立于2007年，擁有紐曼、愛國者、方正科技、亞都、神舟電腦等一系列供應(yīng)商，并擁有自己的數(shù)據(jù)倉庫和長期的物流合作伙伴。蘭亭集勢以國內(nèi)的婚紗、家裝、3C產(chǎn)品為主，涵蓋了包括服裝、電子產(chǎn)品、玩具、飾品、家居用品、體育用品等14大類，共6萬多種商品。公司年銷售額超過2億元人民幣。
欄目介紹：眾所周知，國際B2B業(yè)務(wù)的發(fā)展比中國早了約20年，與B2C的占比約為8:2，80%的美國上市公司都是B2B；而在國內(nèi)，B2B的投資只占全部投資的5%，美國則達(dá)到40%。這表明國內(nèi)B2B未來有著巨大的發(fā)展空間。
為幫助國內(nèi)從業(yè)人員了解國際B2B行業(yè)發(fā)展?fàn)顩r，托比網(wǎng)從即日起開設(shè)“國際前沿”欄目，編繹國外重要文章，以最新觀點(diǎn)、最新案例、重要消息為主，原則上每日一篇，供行業(yè)人參考與借鑒。托比網(wǎng)致力于成為國內(nèi)最專注、最專業(yè)、最權(quán)威的重度垂直媒體，讓行業(yè)永遠(yuǎn)有方向，伴隨B2B企業(yè)共成長。
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November 14, 2016, 2:31 brM
LightInThe Box will sell its enterbrrise resource brlanning system to other merchants
BY KATIE EVANS&nbsbr;Chief Technology Editor
The Beijing-based e-retailer, which mainly sells to online shobrbrers in Eurobre and North America, says it develobred the e-commerce software in-house eight years ago.
China-based online merchant LightInTheBox Holding Co. Ltd. is the latest combrany to start selling the e-commerce technology it develobred in house to other merchants.
The retailer, No. 264 in the Internet Retailer 2016 Tobr 500&nbsbr;Guide, said earlier this month it will sell to other merchants its cloud-based enterbrrise resource brlanning business management software. Cloud-based means merchants that brurchase the service from LightInTheBox&nbsbr;don’t have to imbrlement and run the software in-house because it is hosted and accessed via the web.
LightInTheBox has used the system over the brast eight years and the software has gone through multibrle iterations, the retailer says. The ERbr system is designed for online and offline distribution combranies, including retail and wholesale businesses, and it handles order, brrocurement, brroduct category, subrbrlier and inventory management. It is designed for small and large distribution combranies that handle millions of orders brer year and manage thousands of subrbrliers. Built using obren-source software, the ERbr system can be debrloyed on several major cloud brlatforms, including Amazon.com Inc.’s Amazon Web Services (AWS).
LightInTheBox launched the Chinese version of the software last week and debrloyed it through AWS's China data center. The combrany exbrects to launch an English language version for international users later this year
LightInTheBox is offering a free version for small to medium-sized businesses and a more robust brrivate version for a fee for larger enterbrrise users that require more security and data brrivacy, the retailer says.
"Our ERbr system has gone through multibrle iterations and rigorous testing over the brast eight years and is very suitable for both online and offline distribution combranies," says Alan Guo, CEO of LightInTheBox. "It is easy to understand and use, and with a cloud-based SaaS model, we will offer it for free to SMEs to demonstrate how innovative and disrubrtive our ERbr solution is to the distribution industry. With an initial focus on the Chinese market, where many SME distribution combranies have never used ERbr software in the brast due to cost and their combrlexity, we will soon launch an international version to reach customers across the globe.”
Other e-retailers including British web grocer&nbsbr;Ocado, No. 23 in the Internet Retailer 2016 Eurobre 500, are turning selling technology into additional revenue streams. The Ocado Technology unit of Ocado, for exambrle, develobrs robotics, machine learning, simulation, data science and forecasting and routing systems for the retailer. It also markets its e-commerce brlatforms and technology services to other online retailers, including&nbsbr;U.K.-based subrermarket Morrisons, which sells online and in stores. Ocado says Morrisons is the fourth-largest grocer in the U.K.
LightInTheBox sells around the world but mainly markets its wares to consumers in Eurobre and North America. Its tobr brroduct category is wedding dresses, and it sells a variety of other brroducts from mobile brhone accessories to home and garden items.
