Case Study​

Tannico’s Success
Story with Netrivals

About Tannico

This Italian company is revolutionizing the wine-making industry, from both a purchasing and a selling point of view. This company has become such a strong player in this sector thanks to its unified and advanced technological approach, along with their out-of-the-box vision. This company’s key to success is its way of changing a market as traditional as the wine one, in terms of product offer and market logic. 

From its foundation…

The company has been committed to innovation in B2B, along with their e-commerce platform. Between 2016 and 2017, Tannico launched two groundbreaking platforms: Tannico Intelligence, their marketing analysis platform, and WinePlatform, a platform conceived to support wine manufacturers in their process of selling wines, from a technological and logistic level. Aside from these two platforms, Tannico has activated Ho.Re.Ca services, which combine a high-quality catalog of products with a delivery service tailored to the needs of restaurants, pubs, and hotels, allowing them to reduce their stock costs.

Tannico is the largest Italian wine shop. Just to have a rough idea of the extent of its operations, the company has so far shipped over 1 million bottles of wine throughout the world.

+25

team members

>16K

Products on sale

2,500

wineries in their
product assortment

250,000

bottles in stock
in the warehouse in Arese (MI)

>1M

bottles shipped
all over the world

5,5M €

Collected in funding

The Challenge

Tannico, as a strong player in the wine-making industry at a purchasing and selling level, faces quite a challenge that is very unique to this specific industry. What is this peculiarity?

Unlike other industries, wine products do not have EAN codes, a fact that makes seller monitoring in this sector quite a complex task.

In addition, many retailers are faced with the following challenge: selling via Vivino, one of the biggest marketplaces in this industry or adjusting their stores’ prices to become more competitive. 

 

That is why, one of the main challenges of Tannico in this respect consists in finding ways of matching products of their competitors with their store’s product assortment via product attributes other than EAN codes. The fierce competition in this industry demands a strong need for monitoring the prices of competition in a fast and agile way. And that is exactly where Netrivals comes into action.

The Solution

Netrivals has made it possible for tannico.it to get an accurate and daily picture of what is going on with their competition’s prices in the market. But how has it been possible to overcome the difficulty that we introduced earlier on? How has it been done in order to track products that lack EAN codes?

 

In this specific case, connections between products have been made via the Automatch system of Netrivals, also known as the Smart Connections system. 

The Result

One of the positive aspects to be remarked as the result of the implementation of Netrivals is the great amount of time that Tannico has saved. In the past, this retailer used to spend long hours collecting and reviewing the prices and product assortment of their competitors manually. More specifically, this retailer has been able to save more than 20 hours per month thanks to the automation of price, and product attribute monitoring. 

Now this strong online player in the wine industry has found ways to easily spot where they may be lacking competitive advantage in different areas that directly impact their business performance:

Price competitiveness, which has a direct impact on the conversions of this e-commerce business in a sector with great competition, like the case of the wine industry. 

Wide product assortment analysis, which allows this retailer has the most comprehensive view on their competitors’ product assortment. 

Taking into account the last points, we can conclude that the purchase department at tannico has been one of the most benefited ones from the implementation of the tool, since now they can identify your competitors’ newest and most popular products. This fact enables them to develop strategies to react more effectively to changes in their competitors’ product assortment which translate into the following benefits:

  • Complete analysis of competitor’s catalogs to locate new and existing products.
  • Critical market information to achieve greater negotiation power and exclusivity.
  • Enough product data to develop actions to expand their catalog and generate more conversions and business opportunities for their ecommerce business.
Antonio Prati
Specialist at the Procurement Department
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