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    B2B eProcurement portal for leading IT Solutions provider.


TIEVA is one of the UK’s leading providers of business IT solutions, helping organisations work smarter and grow faster by simplifying complexity, driving innovation, and creating long‑term opportunity.

 

Apexio - TIEVA’s eProcurement platform - is a powerful eBusiness solution designed to transform how customers buy IT. Streamlines the procurement journey, making it simpler, faster, and more strategic. With Apexio, customers gain full control of their purchasing process, reducing admin effort, increasing visibility, and unlocking meaningful cost savings.

Project Highlights

  • Self Service My Account

    A fully self‑service customer portal enabling users to track live order status, request returns, view financials (credit limits, invoices, statements, account credits), manage users, maintain baskets and order lists, and access personalised offers—all without sales or support intervention.

  • Order Automation and Scaling

    Thousands of orders can now be processed end‑to‑end with zero human touch, eliminating manual intervention previously required for every order. This has reduced administrative overhead, removed errors, and enabled Tieva to scale without headcount constraints, supporting an 80% uplift in order volume.

  • Advanced search

    Advanced search tools including predictive, fuzzy search, support for inflections, weighted & boosted search passes, and much more.

  • Unifying Customers and Sales Teams

    The portal simplifies IT procurement for customers while acting as a powerful sales enablement tool. It supports quote requests, improves conversion, and uses personalised targeting to promote Tieva’s wider services, driving qualified opportunities directly back to the sales team.

  • IT Procurement

    A centrally controlled procurement framework with localised ordering flexibility. Administrators can manage users and roles (ordering, approvals, quoting, invoice access), define product visibility, maintain buying lists, set approval workflows, and enforce procurement policy at scale.

  • Bundles

    Flexible customer-specific bundles with product variations. Customers choose the products they want to make up their bundle from a wider selection (e.g. Choose from 3 different laptops, 4 different keyboards, a fixed mouse, & laptop case).

  • Customer Specific Catalogues

    Tailored catalogues built from curated subsets of the master product range. When customers log in, they only see the products approved for their contract or tender requirements, ensuring compliance and simplifying procurement.

  • Product enrichment

    Automated enrichment of product data, images, attributes, videos, and downloads, sourced from Icecat Live for both new and updated items. This dramatically reduces catalogue admin overhead while delivering a richer, more informative buying experience.

  • Automated 14 Vendors/Distributors Dropship Catalogue

    Automated product feeds from 14 drop‑ship suppliers populate a master catalogue of 100,000+ SKUs with stock availability. Multi‑supplier matching allows the same product to be sourced from multiple vendors, with pricing rules determining which supplier drives customer pricing.

Project Integrations


Oracle NetSuite logo Icecat logo Stock In The Channel logo Cloudflare logo Trust Payments logo Elasticsearch logo Loqate logo Google Tag Manager logo Google Analytics logo

Project Overview


TIEVA had explored ecommerce previously, but shifting priorities and timing meant the business had never fully committed to its development. As customer expectations became increasingly digital and TIEVA’s go‑to‑market strategy evolved toward service‑led solutions, revisiting ecommerce moved from optional to essential.

 

With a major ERP transformation to Oracle NetSuite successfully completed, TIEVA finally had the stable operational foundation needed to realise its ecommerce ambitions. It was the right moment to launch a best‑in‑class ordering portal, and the search began for a partner capable of bringing that vision to life.

TIEVA apexio eprocurement portal on laptop
TIEVA apexio eprocurement portal on iMac
Tieva apexio eprocurement portal on phone
TIEVA apexio eprocurement portal on laptop
TIEVA apexio eprocurement portal on phone

Agency Selection

Following extensive research, TIEVA selected Red Technology’s tradeit platform to power Apexio, its new eProcurement solution. Red Technology distinguished itself early, offering deep experience in B2B ecommerce and a strong track record with IT‑focused businesses.

Their proven integrations with critical industry systems, particularly Stock In The Channel and Icecat, were some of the key factors in TIEVA’s decision, ensuring the platform could support the scale, automation, and accuracy required for success.


Product content

With more than 100,000 products, maintaining accurate and consistent product data was a core requirement. To manage this at scale, Icecat integration was implemented to automatically enrich product information, adding detailed attributes, images, videos, manuals, product stories, and reasons to buy.

To further streamline the buying journey, personalised buying lists were introduced. These allow customers to filter the catalogue to only the products they are permitted to purchase, simplifying selection and reducing procurement friction.

Search

Search is a cornerstone of TIEVA’s ordering portal, enabling fast product discovery, reducing procurement time, and delivering a more personalised, efficient experience. With such a large and diverse catalogue, powerful search is essential for meeting the needs of time‑pressed B2B buyers who typically know exactly what they’re looking for.

tradeit’s advanced search engine returns highly accurate, relevant results in milliseconds, even for complex queries, ensuring customers can find the right products quickly and confidently.


The future

The platform is designed to deliver a seamless, end‑to‑end procurement experience, putting all essential IT products and accessories at users’ fingertips. It has already delivered measurable value by removing manual overheads, improving operational efficiency, and driving increased revenue for TIEVA.

With ongoing enhancements planned, the solution will continue to evolve in line with customer needs and TIEVA’s broader digital strategy.

Resources

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SOLUTIONS DATASHEET
B2B ORDERING PORTAL
SOLUTIONS DATASHEET
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