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Connected to Luminovo in under a month

How Telcona connected to Luminovo’s procurement platform in under one month.

A Swiss franchised distributor met its customers on the platform they had already moved to, without touching the ERP, the business system it runs on.

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In numbers

Live on Luminovo, with the ERP untouched.

Under 30 days
from data preparation to a live API connection with Luminovo
0
changes to the ERP, which keeps running operations and finance
1 catalog
feeding Luminovo today and the next procurement platform tomorrow
The challenge

The ERP was never built for digital sales channels.

Customer feedback was consistent: procurement teams wanted real time stock visibility and self service sourcing. Telcona’s customers had moved to platforms like Luminovo, and Telcona needed to be present there.

Their ERP handled internal operations well, but it is a generalist system, not built for electronics distribution or for digital sales channels. When Telcona asked their ERP consultant to build an API connection to Luminovo, the answer exposed the real problem.

The costs to build and maintain this API connection are not predictable and depend on the readiness of the customer’s ERP system.

The ERP consultantOn scoping the integration

The hesitation was fair. Restructuring the existing ERP to serve custom digital requirements was the expensive path, and an open ended one. Telcona needed something that understood both sides: the data they already had (ERP exports, supplier files, customer specific pricing) and what a modern procurement platform expects to receive.

The solution

Purpose built for electronics distribution.

Telcona chose Distrify as the digital layer in front of the ERP. Three things decided it.

No ERP modification

Distrify works with the data Telcona already had: supplier spreadsheets and standard ERP exports. No custom development, no open ended consulting bill, no risk to the systems that run the business.

Integrations already built

The connection to Luminovo and other procurement platforms ships with the platform. Nobody had to read an API spec or maintain a bespoke connector.

Built for this industry

Component data structures, stock logic, lifecycle status and customer specific pricing are the product, not an edge case to be configured around.
The rollout

Three steps. No development cycle.

The rollout was three steps: prepare the existing data, upload it, switch the connections on. No development cycle, no change to the ERP architecture, no retraining on a new core system.

We needed a solution that could work with our existing systems without requiring expensive custom development. Distrify gave us exactly that: a platform that understands electronics distribution.

The results

Live in under 30 days, with the ERP untouched.

Live in less than one month

From first data preparation to a working API connection with Luminovo and other digital procurement platforms, including collection, formatting, upload and testing.

No ERP disruption

The core systems stayed as they were. The ERP keeps running operations and finance; Distrify handles the digital sales channels.

Costs that can be planned

A clear SaaS price instead of an integration budget that depends on how ready the ERP turns out to be.

Ready for the next channel

As new platforms appear, Telcona activates them from the same catalog instead of starting from zero.

The speed of implementation was remarkable. In less than a month, we went from discussing API integration challenges to having a fully functional connection with our customers’ procurement platforms.

The company

About Telcona AG.

Telcona AG is a Swiss franchised electronics distributor specialising in frequency control and acoustic components, batteries and LEDs. Over the years it has built a customer base across telecommunications, medical and access control, strong relationships with Asian manufacturers, and a reputation for technical support and reliable logistics across Europe. As procurement moved digital, Telcona set out to meet its customers inside the sourcing platforms and automated workflows they had already adopted.

Company
Telcona AG, Switzerland
Focus
Frequency control, acoustics, batteries, LEDs
In business
decades
Live on
Luminovo
Time to live
Under 30 days
What they use

The jobs behind this story.

01

Maintain all your products in a digital product catalog

One catalog built on component logic: manufacturers with their alias spellings, parameter templates per category, packages and alternatives.

Organize 02

Turn your catalog into a live API your customers can integrate into their ERP

Each customer gets their own key into your live catalog, a data connection straight into their purchasing system. You set the rate limit and what it may see.

Sell 03

Marketplace feeds to Octopart, TrustedParts, OEMSecrets and many more

Scheduled feeds built from your catalog and delivered to the platforms buyers search on, with black- and whitelists per manufacturer and per line.

Sell 04

Track every request coming through your live connection via virtual BOMs

Every call through the live connection is logged and summarised per component and per customer, so you see what was asked for and who asked.

Discover

Electronics buying has gone digital. Time your distribution did too.

Thirty minutes on your own parts: send us a price list and we show it running live across every channel.

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