Holdahl Company Crafts a Flexible Ecommerce Platform on Znode

Situation

Holdahl Company is a master distributor of Formica brand products, including high pressure laminates, metal laminates, solid surface materials and other specialty surfacing products. The company also offers other in-demand woodworking industry products including brand name functional and decorative hardware, veneers, sinks, core materials, adhesives, abrasives, shop supplies, finishing products, and power tools.

Challenge

As a distributor, Holdahl sells an extensive variety of products online. The company was searching for an ecommerce platform that needed to manage a high number of products, has great site search, as all B2B platforms must have, and fast page loading speed to create a great customer experience. Further requirements Holdahl had for a B2B ecommerce platform was integrating into its existing ERP, Agility, and running on Google Cloud, the company’s online infrastructure.

Solution

With the help of a solution partner to evaluate ecommerce platforms based on Holdahl’s needs, the company chose Znode as their new platform. Znode provides Holdahl with feature-rich enterprise native site search so customers can easily find products they are looking for, and Znode’s built-in PIM provides Holdahl a centralized location to manage its vast catalogs and product information. Znode empowers Holdahl with a stronger and more reliable performance of sub one-second load times, and the platform easily integrated into the company’s existing ERP. Additionally, Znode is seamlessly hosted in Google Cloud, saving costs and providing Holdahl the convenience of managing the platform within its existing infrastructure.