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Mirakl Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™

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Marketplace Development Platforms, Q4 2024

Marketplaces have become the driving force behind eCommerce growth and innovation across industries, helping retailers and b2b business leaders offer the selection and value buyers demand, while also protecting margins and profitability.

Companies like Saks, Henry Schein, MediaMarktSaturn, and Coca-Cola Hellenic are turning to the marketplace model to transform their eCommerce businesses. Selecting the right partner is a critical and high-stakes decision that will impact long-term marketplace success. The Forrester WaveTM: Marketplace Development Platforms, Q4 2024 evaluates the 9 providers that matter most and how they stack up, giving tech leaders the ability to select the right partner for their marketplace platform needs. Get the report, to uncover:

  • The rankings and scores of each vendor against Forrester’s criteria

  • What key capabilities are necessary to launch and grow a successful marketplace

  • Why Mirakl received the highest score possible in 21 of 33 criteria, including AI, Retail Media, Seller network and Seller onboarding tools

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“Mirakl provides a full suite of integrated capabilities to simplify the ever-expanding marketplace tech stack. Its strategic advisory services also help customers plan for the complicated operational changes that must occur across the org.”

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Forrester®, The Forrester® Wave™: Marketplace Development Platforms, Q4 2024, 5 December 2024, Cicman, J.

Use cases for distributors

Use cases for distributors

Reduce inefficiency with manual supplier onboarding and product data ingestion into your various systems. Mirakl helps you: collaborate with suppliers and brands to provide a self-serving supplier portal to automate product data ingestion, automate the mapping of catalogs to your taxonomy via AI, streamlining governance and manual tasks, and streamline any correction with automation.

Create commercial synergies across subsidiaries, entities and brands with a unified product catalog and standardized processes. Mirakl helps you: unify product and inventory data across all subsidiaries and their warehouses, integrate the collected information into the relevant sales channels and orchestrate orders to the most efficient supply source for faster and cheaper fulfillment.

Grow revenue by providing a one-stop shopping experience to your customers without the inventory burden. Mirakl helps you: quickly onboard third party suppliers to increase the depth and breadth of your product range, integrate and synchronize inventory and order data across all channels and route orders to the right supplier while managing tax and invoicing according to predefined rules.

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