Case Study: a large mining holding launches a spare parts marketplace with Cart-Power

Large Mining Holding launches SPL marketplace with Cart-Power for tens of thousands of spare parts

Cart-Power was approached by a large mining holding that identified a gap in the market for a unified online platform connecting sellers and buyers of spare parts for special equipment. The customer's challenge was the lack of a marketplace to solve two core problems: the inconvenience of phone-based supply negotiations and the critical downtime caused by lengthy manual parts searches, where delivery time was a major factor in vendor selection. Cart-Power was tasked with functionally implementing the client's vision on the CS-Cart platform.

Cart-Power developed the SPL marketplace, implementing key features such as an article-based search that displays a "Best Offer" based on price and pre-calculated delivery times from a matrix, separate order placement per vendor, and optimizations for legal entities. The solution allows buyers to find parts quickly and vendors to automate processes like product import via an email parser. The results include a fully operational marketplace ready for scaling, where buyers easily find the best offers without manual comparison and the platform operates quickly despite complex delivery time calculations. Cart-Power continues to cooperate with the client to further develop and automate the marketplace.