In recent months, as lots have reopened for business, the pace of auto ecommerce has only increased, signaling a more fundamental change in the way Americans buy cars.
Most sales will take place on mobile devices. And digital activity will influence just under $141 billion in U.S. auto parts and accessories sales this year.
VW is working with Amazon Web Services to build a marketplace for software applications designed to help the automaker’s factories, like the one pictured above, run faster and more efficiently.
To handle an influx of ecommerce orders, the maker of auto glass repair and construction tools automated order-processing and shipment-tracking with a new shipping-managing system. It increased its peak season shipping volume by half without having to expand its staff.
In a Q&A report, Wendy Sorquist, director of marketing for truck parts distributor Blaine Brothers, discusses the company’s ecommerce plans and why it moved up the launch of its new website after the coronavirus pandemic hit.
After its 2019 ecommerce sales nearly doubled to nearly $600 million, the online car-buying service and ecommerce technology company says its first-quarter 2020 ecommerce sales surged by 160% to more than $230 million.
Partsmaster, a division of manufacturer NCH Corp. that distributes industrial products, is handling a rush of orders during the virus pandemic—thanks in large part to its new B2B ecommerce site.
At VSE Corp., a supplier of parts and repair services to commercial truck fleets, the aviation industry and the U.S. government, sales through its own ecommerce sites and Amazon.com are a main force behind the company’s 8% year-over-year increase in 2019 revenue to more than $750 million, the company says. Above: Trucks serviced by VSE's Wheeler Fleet unit.
The diversified distributor, which sells through several ecommerce sites as well as physical stores, says it finished 2019 with strong B2B auto parts sales while industrial and office products fell in the fourth quarter.