Procurement of long-tail industrial parts
Forty small positions a month come from forty suppliers, so the cheapest item on the list is not a purchase — it is a creditor account and a payment run. On shukchok they share one ordering process, with purchase order number and cost centre as fields, not as a comment.
Your long tail
The position that arrives correctly and still makes work
You know it. The box stands in goods inwards, the part is the right one, and nobody can say which job it belongs to. What follows is three queries and a posting that sits untouched for a week.
The cause is rarely the supplier. It is the free-text comment in the order form that no longer appears on the document. Forty such positions a month are not a sourcing problem; they are an allocation problem.
So here the purchase order number and the cost centre are two separate fields in the basket. Both travel with the order as attributes and appear on the document your accounts department receives; a default cost centre is stored once in the company profile.
- Net prices without a login — comparing three offers needs no account
- Company name is mandatory, VAT identification number and default cost centre in the profile
- Quotation with its own number, date and validity as a PDF in the account
The threshold hangs on the zone
Free shipping and delivery term by shipping zone
There is no single threshold. It depends on the destination zone, and so does the delivery clause.
| Zone | Free shipping from | Delivery term |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 250 € | DAP |
| European Union (26 countries) | 250 € | DAP |
| Europe outside the EU | 1,000 € | DDP |
| Mediterranean and Türkiye | 1,000 € | DDP |
| North America | 1,000 € | DDP |
| Asia and Near East | 1,000 € | DDP |
| Gulf Cooperation Council | 1,500 € | DDP |
| Rest of world | 1,000 € | DDP |
What a marketplace changes
Your supplier can stand here — then the rest bundles itself
Consolidation usually stops where the next supplier is missing. shukchok is an open marketplace for industrial goods, so that is solvable: the manufacturer or dealer you order from by email today can list here — free of charge, without a joining fee and without an approval procedure. After that their position sits in the same basket as the rest.
What changes for you is the process, not the paperwork: one basket, one ordering process, one payment. Where goods come from several suppliers, partial delivery is the normal case and may be invoiced separately, so one order does not automatically mean one shipment.
And the commodity code on every position is what makes the landed cost calculable before you order. Inside the EU customs territory the term is DAP, across the border DDP. Which delivery term applies to an article is stated on the article.
- One basket, one ordering process, one payment — across several suppliers
- A commodity code on 114 of 114 positions
- Partial delivery for goods from several suppliers, separately invoiceable
Before the first order
What is not possible today
Named here rather than discovered at checkout. If one of these is a knock-out criterion in your process, it is cheaper to know it now than after the release.
- No purchase on account and no SEPA direct debit at checkout — both are listed as announced payment methods, not as available ones. No payment term is offered with them.
- No structured electronic invoice: no XRechnung, no ZUGFeRD, no Peppol. The invoice is a PDF.
- No catalogue or system integration — no OCI/PunchOut, cXML, BMEcat or EDI.
- No company accounts with several users, approval workflows or budget limits.
- No framework agreements and no customer-specific price lists.
- No tiered pricing: the field is set on one of 114 articles.
- No validity check of the VAT identification number — format and country prefix only.
The load-bearing product groups
Where the long tail actually has stock here
Counts from the live catalogue on 8 August 2026. 57 of the 70 categories hold stock; the empty ones are linked nowhere.
Seals and gasketsFKM and NBR, round, rectangular and moulded, with dimensions per position.
Piping and pipe connectorsThe connecting parts that keep turning up as a second order.
SensorsLevel, pressure, temperature and proximity.
Industrial valves and shut-off valvesSeveral manufacturers in one ordering process.
Separators, filters and cleanersConsumables that come back on the requisition every quarter.
Filters and screensFilter elements, mats and stainless mesh.
Two ways in
Bundle the long tail without losing the allocation
Purchase order number and cost centre stand in the basket, the commodity code at every position. And if your supplier is missing here: listing costs them nothing, and you have them in the same basket.