Cut your ecommerce operating costs
We take out the work and cost that pile up between your store, your ERP, and your warehouse. For B2B and D2C ecommerce companies.
How the savings share model works
Our model is designed to minimize risk: there are no upfront consulting fees for qualified optimization projects. Instead, our compensation is tied to the measurable value we create, typically through a mutually agreed percentage of verified savings generated through reduced labor, lower operating costs, improved processes, and increased efficiency.
Actual commercial terms, savings methodology, baseline period, measurement period, and percentage are agreed upon before implementation.
Where ecommerce operating costs build up
We look at how work moves through your business, step by step. Then we show where time, labor, and money go to waste.
Process optimization
Order to cash. Quote to order for B2B. New customer setup, catalog upkeep, returns and refunds. Inventory, purchase orders, and the data someone types in twice.
Fewer manual tasks, faster processing, fewer errors.Technology and integration
Your store, ERP, CRM, WMS and 3PL, EDI, payments, marketplaces, PIM, and shipping, plus the links between them. We go after data typed twice, systems that do not talk, and work that lives in spreadsheets.
Less admin work, and more out of the tools you already pay for.Labor and level of effort
We measure the labor and level of effort each process takes. Then you can price a change in dollars, not in guesses.
A defensible number instead of an opinion.Automation and workflow engineering
Orders, customer updates, reports, invoices and new customer setup. Inventory kept in step across systems. The checks and exceptions around all of it. We use the tools and APIs you have where we can.
Human effort removed without quality dropping.B2B operations
Prices set per customer and per contract. Quotes, purchase orders, and approvals. Bulk buys, repeat orders, customer catalogs, EDI partners, and the portals your buyers use.
Complex transactions get easier to process with less internal labor.D2C operations
Orders, shipping, returns and customer service. Subscriptions and the marketplaces you sell on. Inventory counts that drift from one sales channel to the next. The steps after the sale.
Scale without labor growing at the same rate as revenue.Data, reporting, and visibility
Sales, stock, and management reports, and the month end books. We cut the hours spent copying numbers your systems already hold.
Less time collecting data, more time acting on it.
How we measure savings
We do not want to claim savings simply because a process looks better. We establish a measurable baseline.
Discover
Map the current process, systems, people, and workflows.
Quantify
Measure hours spent, employees involved, frequency, error rates, processing time, technology costs, external service costs, level of effort, and volume.
Identify
Determine which inefficiencies can realistically be eliminated or reduced.
Implement
Deploy process changes, automation, integrations, technology improvements, and operational changes.
Validate
Compare the new operating model against the original baseline.
Share the savings
Compensation is calculated against the mutually agreed savings methodology.
We document the same chain every time
This is how a process improvement becomes a financial figure rather than a feeling. Each stage is recorded before and after the change.
- Current state
- Labor hours
- Cost
- Root cause
- Optimization
- New state
- Verified savings
An illustrative savings example
Ecommerce integration and automation opportunities
Not a menu. These are the places we check first for cost you do not need.
| Area | Typical opportunity |
|---|---|
| Manual data entry | Automation |
| Order processing | Workflow optimization |
| Customer service | Self service and automation |
| Reporting | Automated dashboards |
| Inventory | System synchronization |
| ERP and ecommerce | Integration |
| EDI | Process automation |
| Returns | Workflow redesign |
| Product data | PIM and process optimization |
| Billing | Automated reconciliation |
| B2B quotes | Digital workflows |
| Customer onboarding | Automation |
| Spreadsheets | System integration |
| 3PL and shipping | API and integration optimization |
| Employee level of effort | Process redesign |
Who the ecommerce model fits
The savings share needs a baseline we can measure. That takes steady order volume and work that repeats.
You have meaningful transaction volume.
Teams are performing repetitive operational work.
You operate multiple ecommerce, ERP, CRM, or WMS systems.
Manual processes sit between those systems.
Your operation relies heavily on spreadsheets.
You see order or data errors often enough to notice.
You are considering additional headcount because of operational workload.
You have acquired or inherited disconnected technology.
See which ecommerce costs you can cut
Start with the AI audit call. It takes thirty minutes, and one of our founders runs it. If we cannot identify measurable economic value, there may be no project.
No charge for the call. Prefer fewer questions? Book the AI audit call in three steps, or email preferredaipartners@gmail.com.