CHRIS: If they order something, they plan on it being there. It needs to show up on time with rare exceptions, if any exceptions. And so it's really important that this advanced concept be in place because we really have at the baseline or the foundational element of the buying group, this concept of integrity and credibility of the information within the system.
So if anything, you know, what we want to do within our B2B eCommerce platform is enable you and your organization to seamlessly leverage this data in an intelligent way and do it in a way that works for the members, for the buyers, so they can see the information transparently, very easily. And in most cases, that's really the name of the game, is transparency with some amount of buffer. So we want to be able to represent inventory for each of the different vendors, possibly give the buyers options to purchase or source from different vendors for the same product.
There could be different distributors, there could be different warehouse locations. And we want to as the buying group or the group purchasing organization, we want to enable our members. OK, so our job with the software is to make that easy for you and ultimately put the governance in place so that the the vendors who are selling have the ability to keep their information up to date and they have incentive to make sure that it's kept up to date or they are removed or lowered in the search results.
Possibly there their items that they're selling are kind of marked as low reliability. Maybe we increase the lead time, reduce the amount of items that we show in inventory because their information is incredible, this kind of a thing. And so ultimately though, whenever a buyer is going into your platform and they are looking to purchase a thousand items or fifty items that need to be delivered urgently, this advanced inventory logic is what is going to give them that sense of security that, yeah, I might be getting a great price here, but it is absolutely going to be delivered on time.
And then the other thing, too, on this is looking at the locations and the lead times. A lot of our buyers are members within buying groups have multiple locations that they need to do a split shipment to. In many cases, there will be a group purchase that will need to occur. So the group members, the members who are participating in the purchase, will need to do split shipping.
And so again, this inventory logic is really important because the shipping costs and the lead times are dramatically different depending on where someone is physically.
RON: Yeah. And I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to show a couple screenshots here real quick because the inventory can be done in a couple of different ways. One, the one I'm going to show on the screen right now, is when there are multiple vendors potentially sourcing the exact same product where you can kind of see them side by side in a grid view.