Q & A with Mar-Hy Distributors

Mar-Hy Distributors is a “one-stop shop” for heating and cooling contractors in the Pacific Northwest. The company’s history dates to the 1940’s, when it was founded near Portland, Oregon. Today Mar-Hy continues to deliver the gas furnaces or HVAC equipment its contractors need, but also ancillary items such as flex duct and metal products. Name a component or part related to the HVAC industry, and they most likely inventory it.

To access real-time manufacturers’ specifications and descriptions of the equipment and products they sell, Mar-Hy Distributors joined the Anarus Grand Anar supply chain information exchange network.

We asked their Operations Manager, Eric Schmidt, to share his opinion of how the Anarus Grand Anar and Stellar eCommerce platforms have added value to their business. Here are his responses:

Q: Why are you using Grand Anar and Stellar eCommerce and what value do you see in them?
A: We choose to use Anarus Grand Anar as it handles the rich content data in ways other ecommerce platforms don't. By actively working with vendors to supply the rich content data for us, it helps reduce the workload for our team to hunt down and maintain that dataset.

Q: How has it helped your company?
A: We are new to the platform, but it has enabled us to provide our contractors with another option for ordering equipment and supplies.

Q: What’s been the most surprising or helpful part of the Grand Anar network or Stellar eCommerce?
A: The depth of the vendor network already in place.

Q: How has your experience been with the Anarus support team?
A: They have been responsive and eager to assist when issues arise, and they help solve our problems in a timely manner.

Created by Anarus, Inc., Grand Anar is a cloud-based data exchange network that creates private online communities where manufacturers and suppliers can share rich product content, personalized pricing, and product updates effortlessly. According to Anarus president and CEO, Prashubh Batham, “What makes Grand Anar truly unique is that it modulates and synchronizes how manufacturers’ products and attributes are categorized across entire industries. Distributors have real-time access to standardized, eCommerce-ready manufacturer product information.” In other words, data format hassles are a thing of the past.

By joining Grand Anar, Mar-Hy unlocked unlimited access to standardized parts data and pricing from their manufacturers all in one place. They can stop paying by the SKU for 3rd party data and help themselves to all the eCommerce-ready content they need to market their products and improve the buyer experience. The Anarus Stellar eCommerce platform works seamlessly with Grand Anar data, to create completely customized, full-featured eCommerce for one low monthly subscription cost. Learn more at www.anarus.com or call (612) 255-3712 to request a demo.