MAIN CHALLENGES
Client
A worldwide manufacturer of Consumer Electronics is required to monitor the products sold in different countries, multiple resellers, and websites for prospective MAP (Minimum Advertised Price) violations.
A lot of people have been purchasing electronics online these days and it has increased to total e-commerce websites also. Each country has different e-commerce sites that deal with millions of people every day. Global brands have to monitor competitors and also search for the retailers, who are violating the MAP.
MAP is the brand set for products as well as anticipates the retailers to not selling their products under this price. MAPs are having different uses, which include guarding the Brand Identity.
Our customers had thousands of products getting sold across different websites in various countries. The client was manually monitoring MAP violations that were turned out to be a slower and costly exercise.
They were required to make a dashboard, which permitted their team to effortlessly identify a seller violating the MAP. To make the dashboard, they required data access from all websites, which their products were registered on.
They had trouble in selecting between setting up the in-house solutions or outsourcing that to the professional. Creating an in-house solution intended they need to hire developers that had experience in creating scrapers as well as collecting data. Also, they were required to set a technology infrastructure, which could scale up to different countries as well as different websites. That might be followed by creating scalable solutions, maintaining scrapers, dealing with blocking, etc. This entire exercise was proved to be time-consuming and expensive.
So, they have decided to progress with outsourcing the complete procedure to a professional. They were searching for a data provider, which was capable to collect data from different e-commerce sites competently. Because of the ever-increasing nature of the business, they required a solution, which was easily mountable to comprise new products, countries, and websites.
X-BYTE SOLUTION
X-Byte Enterprise Crawling has offered a customized product monitoring solution that collected data as well as included customized dashboards that allowed a manufacturer to recognize MAP violations as well as send notices to different retailers.
Our solution has assisted in automating the whole procedure of recognizing and fading violations that was formerly a slower manual as well as expensive procedure.
X-Byte Enterprise Crawling has helped to monitor 5,000+ products sold in 8 different countries using 25 websites on a daily basis to recognize MAP violations.
X-Byte Enterprise Crawling Helps Monitoring MAP Violations
The client was impressed by the response time of X-Byte Enterprise Crawling as well as valued the calls that we had at the early stage that assisted them in taking a decision quicker as well as result in signing up in a few weeks.
X-Byte Enterprise Crawling assisted in finalizing the sites to get crawled as well as crawling frequency. It was trailed by creating crawlers for every website depending on requirements as well as starting the sample data collection procedure. Following the support of sample data, complete data was collected. After that, the products in different websites got matched depending on unique identifiers to make a monitoring procedure easier. When the complete data was accepted by the customers, the crawlers got scheduled to collect data on the weekly basis.
The entire procedure took about a month for setting up and automating. The current cost of collecting data is a fraction of what was getting charged by a few of the key MAP monitoring services. However, the largest benefit was the solution’s scalability, the ability to quickly as well as easily increasing or decreasing total products as well as websites getting monitored. It allowed them to rapidly scaling the monitoring services to new markets.
X-BYTE SOLUTION
Setting up the Crawler – The crawler was initially configured such that it could automatically scrape product price and essential data fields for present categories on a daily basis.
Data Template : A template was created utilizing data structuring based on the schema provided by the customer.
Delivery of Data : Without any manual input from either side, the closing data was supplied in an XML format through Data API regularly.
The dataset had all the information including comments, news timelines, most viewed articles, customer behaviour, etc. All of the scraped data was indexed using hosted indexing components, and search APIs were made available so that a client could get the results every few minutes.
CUSTOMIZED DATA COLLECTION WITH X-BYTE ENTERPRISE CRAWLING
X-Byte Enterprise Crawling is the leading service provider of data scraping services in the world. Leading companies around the world depend on X-Byte Enterprise Crawling for delivering data depending on their particular requirements.
The customized nature of services helps X-Byte Enterprise Crawling to provide solutions, which best serve a customer’s requirements. X-Byte Enterprise Crawling assists in accessing data from the websites in actual time with a customized web scraping API as well as offers RPA solutions that help in automating time-consuming physical work.
