Case Study: Sigma-Aldrich achieves real-time pricing intelligence and cuts data collection time with Connotate

Sigma-Aldrich - Customer Case Study

Sigma-Aldrich, a supplier of biochemical and organic chemical products, needed a faster, more accurate way to capture real-time competitive pricing data across more than 187,000 products. Its manual and home-grown web scraping processes were slow and often produced inaccurate data, making it difficult to maintain competitive pricing. Connotate provided the web data collection solution used to improve Sigma-Aldrich’s pricing intelligence.

Connotate implemented a hosted web data collection service that gathered, structured, and delivered pricing data into Sigma-Aldrich’s reporting systems in a usable format. The result was real-time pricing information for better pricing decisions, at least a 50% reduction in web data monitoring and collection time, and improved analysis of historical trends without added hardware or staff.

Sigma-Aldrich

Shari Kleklamp

Global Pricing Manager