Simply aggregated
and integrated
Mecka is a single, unified SaaS solution comprised of nearly every
tool auto parts retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers require
to run their business.
FROM SUPPLY TO MARKETPLACES
“…eBay set-up is so much work”
Mecka connects to your virtual supply chain to live-feed catalogs,
pricing and inventory so you can create eBay listings automatically
or sell online using integrated B2C and B2B eCommerce tools.
No. More. Manual. Updates. Required.
FULLY MANAGED CATALOG
“Catalog needs
ACES & PIES.”
Manufacturers can create and update catalogs in ACES and PIES
and flow into their virtual supply chain, managing receivers,
then keeping receivers updated and in MAP compliance
automatically, all from a single interface.
STUNNING ROI
“…eCommerce is outrageous”
Current platforms require a lot of time and financial investment
just to get set up. In contrast, with Mecka, there is no initial
investment, and you and your customers get unlimited support
and training.
Your success is our prime directive.
REAL-WORLD DATA DRIVEN
“BI-powered
decision-making”
Mecka aggregates customer searches across your entire supply
chain in real time, informing product development or stock-sourcing
decisions.
Stop guessing—start learning!
THE VALUE OF A SYMBIOTIC COMMUNITY
Retailer
#1 Retailer
Retailers connect with suppliers, then sell their suppliers’ products via multiple integrated eCommerce channels such as eBay, Amazon, and their Mecka Shop.
#2 Retailer-to-Manufacturer
From the Mecka B2B Portal, retailers can see all their distributors’ inventory and pricing in one place, they can place orders, and soon, Mecka will automate the entire fulfillment process.
#3 Retailer-to-Wholesaler
Searches yielding no results on retailers’ Mecka Shops can be seamlessly accessed by affiliated manufacturers, enabling them to design and develop products people need but can’t yet find—ultimately increasing retail sales.
#4 Symbiotic Community
Empowered by Mecka’s innovative B2B platform, Manufacturers, Retailers, and Wholesalers can effortlessly and securely share business data, enabling them to increase sales, improve efficiency, anticipate market demands, and adapt to market changes like never before.
Wholesaler
#1 Wholesaler
Wholesalers sell to retailers via the Mecka B2B Portal, where they can set price levels, manage wholesale customer accounts, manage orders, and even connect with suppliers. Wholesalers can also use their Mecka Shop to showcase their entire catalog and company, with or without B2C eCommerce enabled.
#2 Wholesaler-to-Retailer
Wholesalers can tap into the retail exposure provided by their customers, seamlessly feeding catalogues, pricing and inventory to each of them. Their associated retailers can then list those items on their various sales channels so end customers can find them.
#3 Wholesaler-to-Manufacturer
On the supply side, wholesalers use the Mecka B2B Portal to connect with manufacturers—enabling a hassle-free flow of information between retail and manufacturing segments without the need for ACES and PIES import or export operations.
#4 Symbiotic Community
Empowered by Mecka’s innovative B2B platform, Manufacturers, Retailers, and Wholesalers can effortlessly and securely share business data, enabling them to increase sales, improve efficiency, anticipate market demands, and adapt to market changes like never before.
Manufacturer
#1 Manufacturer
In addition to displaying catalogs via their Mecka Shop and selling products via the Mecka B2B Portal, manufacturers can create and maintain digital catalogs in the ACES and PIES format, control access to information and use sales data aggregated from all downline customers to anticipate market demand.
#2 Manufacturer-to-Retailer
Manufacturers can connect with retailers directly or indirectly through wholesalers, securely sharing catalogs and supply info. From there, manufacturers can control marketplace authorizations and set application-enforced MAP policies, eliminating the need to police their operations.
#3 Manufacturer-to-Wholesaler
Manufacturers can connect with wholesalers to live-feed catalogs and other supply information so wholesalers can pass that information on to retailers in a secure and controlled fashion without the inherent intellectual property risks associated with sharing raw ACES and PIES.
#4 Symbiotic Community
Empowered by Mecka’s innovative B2B platform, Manufacturers, Retailers, and Wholesalers can effortlessly and securely share business data, enabling them to increase sales, improve efficiency, anticipate market demands, and adapt to market changes like never before.
AUTOPARTS BRANDS
THE MECKA VISION
- Catalog
- Easily build your catalog by creating data and/or connecting with suppliers.
- Pricing
- Set retail markups from cost or create customer groups and define prices for each.
- Inventory
- Set stocking policies and sync local inventory from existing apps.
- Supply Chain
- Connect to resellers and provide them with catalogs, inventory, and price sheets.
- Sales Channels
- Connect and configure B2C and B2B eCommerce and marketplace sales channels.
- Orders
- See aggregated orders from all sales channels, conveniently in one place.
- Placement
- Order upstream manually or automate* the busywork of drop-shipping or reordering from suppliers when additional stock is required.
- Fulfillment
- Just-in-Time. Print labels and schedule pickups for orders you have in stock.
- Tracking
- Automatically* relay tracking to recipients regardless of where the purchase was made.
- Collect
- Analytics and business intelligence data is collected and aggregated by Mecka.
- Analyze
- Continuously analyze channels, adjust pricing, and understand market needs.
- Strategize
- Use real-world trends to make data-driven decisions on what to build or source, then publish, fulfill, and repeat.
OUR STORY
The Insightful Era of Brutal Complexity
After serving for five years in the auto parts industry, Mecka Co-Founder and current President & CEO, Sean Maisonneuve, discovered major limitations of readily available business systems of the day. Not only did these limitations prevent small to medium sized companies from selling auto parts online, but they also had their limits when it came to addressing issues for enterprise players. Opportunity had come knocking.
Co-Founders Meet
Sean meets Mecka’s Co-Founder and current Vice-President and CTO, Robin Forest, a gifted programmer with experience working on big data projects for companies such as Canada Post, NAV Canada, and DND.
Founding an Enterprise
With their shared passion for technology and high-performance cars, they quickly hit it off. Sean shares ideas for a system to more efficiently manage his business. Not long after, the two find themselves planning how to address the challenges of the auto parts industry as a whole and what’s more, they hatch an idea that would allow any supply chain business to operate more efficiently.
Both co-founders believed that where the early part of the 21st century was spent building “pure play” solutions for supply chain management, data management, inventory management, online payments, eCommerce shopping carts, and more, the next decades would be spent unifying this myriad of disjointed systems. They figured someone was going to do it — so why not them?
As a result, Mecka was initially founded with the descriptive name of “Unified Technology Solutions Inc.”
Funding an Enterprise
Robin and Sean fund their new venture through managed service and development contracts with companies outside their primary area of focus while simultaneously courting BETA customers for their planned proprietary SaaS solution—the Mecka App.
Coding, Signing Clients, and Delivering on Promises
Mecka signs its first customers, then launches the first version of the app, a modest ACES and PIES catalog management system with a Wholesale B2B eCommerce portal. The fledgling company is officially in business, and starts to hire employees to service its growing customer base.
Growth Phase, Rebranding & Focusing on Saas
After a multi-month rebranding effort, Mecka adopts is current name of (“Mecka Inc.”), dropping the Unified Technology Solutions name. Shortly thereafter, Mecka begins a planned ramps down of its aforementioned technology consulting activities to focus all its energy on Mecka’s SaaS offerings.
From this point on, the subscriber-base and Mecka’s revenue starts to grow steadily while the total number of data points within the app start to surge exponentially.
Building Strategy Parterships
Mecka signs a landmark deal with eBay, Inc., officially becoming the third ever eBay Motors VIP partner and the first based in Canada, enabling Mecka’s extensive supply chain of novel catalog data to flow through to the eBay marketplace. Concurrently, Mecka starts working with other strategic partners to round out its offering, helping companies to more efficiently manage sales channels, logistics, payments, and foreign exchange.
Exponential Growth Phase
With planned feature releases congruent with Mecka’s innovative approach to auto parts supply chain technology, coupled with continuous improvements to existing features, Mecka’s Business Operating System [BoS] concept starts to mature. Add to that Mecka’s high level of service and its community-based feedback loop and Mecka’s revenue and subscriber-base start to grow exponentially. This growth has enabled Mecka to correspondingly hire more Mentors to assist more companies of all sizes and types. Above all, we thank our subscribers for the privilege to serve them and hope to be able to continue to bring the industry solutions that have real-world benefits.
SEAMLESS INTEGRATION
organizations facing the challenges of
“commodity paradox”, manual processes,
little to no collection of data and human
inaccuracies.
