A custom distributor portal designed with your required function in order to enable your distributor partners.
A custom distributor portal designed with your required function in order to enable your distributor partners.
We don’t start with code; we start with a conversation. We sit down with your individual process owners to explore the manual workflows that currently consume their time. Whether it’s an engineer answering technical spec questions or a sales admin manually checking SyteLine for order status, we map these friction points to identify the 80/20 data silos that will feed into your portal.
Week 1: Discovery & System Mapping: Kickoff meeting to review the Discovery Kit. We map the SyteLine/JDE API endpoints to the Node Gear middleware.
Week 2: Security Handshake: Integration with your Identity Provider (Azure AD/Okta). Establishing the encrypted TLS 1.3 tunnel between your ERP and our Azure API Gateway
In Week 2, we move from the ‘What’ to the ‘How.’ We work directly with your IT department to establish a secure, read-only handshake between your internal systems and the Node Gear environment. By utilizing Azure AD B2B, we ensure that every distributor login is verified against your existing security protocols, meaning you never lose control of who is seeing your data. This is a zero-migration process; your data stays exactly where it is.
Week 3: Schema Mapping: Finalizing the Read-Only views for Orders, RMAs, and Inventory. We ensure “zero-persistence” logic is validated.
Week 4: AI Knowledge Ingestion: Uploading technical manuals and schematics into your private Vector Database. We configure the RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) parameters.
Week 5: UI/UX Branding: Applying your corporate design system (logos, brand colors, typography) to the portal.
In Week 3, the blueprint becomes a reality. We deliver a live prototype of your portal populated with a sample set of your actual data—from ERP-synced order histories to your existing product documents, and marketing assets. This isn’t just a mockup; it’s a functional preview of the React-based environment your distributors will call home. We walk through the interface with your team to ensure the navigation feels intuitive and the 80/20 workload reduction is immediately apparent.
Goal: This phase ensures there are no surprises at launch. You see exactly how your data looks and feels before a single distributor ever logs in.
Week 6: User Acceptance Testing (UAT): We invite a “Champion Distributor” to test the portal in a sandbox environment.
Week 7: Security Audit & Optimization: Final penetration testing and API rate-limit tuning to ensure ERP stability under high load.
In Week 4, we move from the staging environment to the Production Launch. We deploy the final, security-hardened site to Vercel or Azure, ensuring it is globally accessible and optimized for mobile performance. But launch day isn’t the finish line—it’s the start of the ‘Living Portal’ phase. We provide ongoing support to monitor the ’80/20′ workload reduction and work with you to add new nodes, system connections, or AI features as your business grows.
Week 8: Global Rollout: The portal goes live. We trigger the automated onboarding emails for your distributor network.
Week 9: Optimization Review: Reviewing initial AI query accuracy and system performance. We establish the ongoing maintenance and support cadence.
Maximize Distributor Performance & Revenue
Scale Your ExpertiseYour portal is a powerful tool, but its value is unlocked by the people using it. Node Academy ensures your distributors aren’t just users—they are experts. By hosting your own certification courses, product assembly videos, and IATA compliance training directly inside the portal, you give your partners the confidence to sell your most complex equipment at higher margins.
Because we build on a modern React framework, your portal is never ‘finished.’ It grows with your distributors, ensuring you always stay ahead of their needs.
Scalable Node configurations designed to eliminate 80% of repetitive workflows while driving distributor revenue.
Tailored digital ecosystems for complex, global manufacturing operations.
A high-performance React environment designed for th technical manufacturing landscape.
Direct, read-only transparency into ERP order/invoicing, analytics, updates, and pricing.
A centralized resource for product installation guides, technical manuals, and operational videos. Designed to 80/20 your support workload by providing distributors with total self-service autonomy
A secure, real-time link to your OneDrive or PIM library. Give your partners instant access to the latest campaign kits, brand assets, and technical specifications without leaving the portal
