Thomas Industrial Network®
For more than 100 years, Thomas has been an integral part in the way industrial buyers and sellers connect and communicate. Today, Thomas continues this legacy with an innovative array of internet marketing, content development, and technology solutions designed to help industrial manufacturers share critical product and service information throughout the sourcing and purchasing process.
Thomas Industrial Network serves manufacturers, distributors, and service companies throughout North America, as well as corporations, educational institutions, government agencies and the military.
The Navigator Platform is a Thomas developed web technology that helps industrial companies leverage the Internet to efficiently solve critical business issues. Today, thousands of industrial businesses employ the power of the Navigator Platform to increase sales, improve customer relationships, and expand into new markets - domestically and globally.
The Navigator Platform's key capabilities include:
- Detailed Product Search and Configuration capabilities including keyword, part-number, and parametric as well as rules-based product configuration tools.
- 2D/3D WebCAD Publishing Technology allowing engineers to generate, download, and insert 2D/3D CAD drawings from suppliers' websites into their own designs.
- E-Commerce and Online Merchandising including credit and purchase payment solutions.
- Interactive Exploded View Diagrams providing customers with an easy-to-use visual interface that allows them to identify, select, and purchase replacement parts.
- Distributor Content Syndication helping manufacturers publish their detailed product information within their distributors' websites.
- Content Management Tools allowing businesses to make real-time changes to their website and online product content and effectively manage their web strategy.
- ThomasNet Web Traxs® Analytic Tools providing businesses with real-time insight into data, for better web strategy management.
The Navigator Platform is part of Thomas' Web Solution offering which also includes Custom SPEC, a complete, turn-key solution designed specifically to meet the internet marketing needs of custom manufacturers and industrial service providers.
Thomas' suite of Enterprise Solutions enables industrial companies to effectively manage digital product data for syndication across a variety of enterprise-wide systems and sales channels to meet their strategic business needs.
Some of these include:
- Business Systems Integration – Helps to streamline end-to-end business processes by seamlessly sharing product content between internal business systems and front-end websites
- Buy-Side Syndication – Database, manage and syndicate detailed product specifications and attribute and dimensional data into enterprise sourcing and design applications.
- Distributor Syndication – Syndicate detailed product content, in the digital format large distributors require to operate their various internal and external business systems.
With millions of user sessions each month, ThomasNet.com is the world’s preferred resource for efficiently sourcing, specifying and buying the products and services that keep manufacturing, commercial, construction and all other businesses’ operations running. Engineers and buyers rely on ThomasNet.com’s comprehensive information, procurement tools and search technology to effectively manage their sourcing process, make best-educated buying decisions and ultimately secure their supply chain.
This powerful buying audience comes to ThomasNet.com for supplier discovery and selection whether that's for routine parts, new or hard-to-find components or MRO services. Content rich company profiles help buyers to narrow down their supplier options by geography, certifications, capabilities, product catalogs, CAD drawings and more.
The site includes:
- 607,000 North American manufacturers, distributors and service companies, indexed by 67,000 categories.
- 1,000+ technical White Papers and manufacturing case studies.
- 400+ Need-to-Know Guides on common industrial products.
- ThomasNet News™, the leading source of new and innovative products, company news and business trends and analysis.
- Industry Market Trends blog and newsletter
- Product News Alert newsletters
- ThomasNet Forums for peer-to-peer interaction.
- Free, Web-based RFP Manager™ and Contract Manager™ software to help buyers improve purchasing processes.
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