3PV

Our vendor-neutral platform supports both our standard supply chain and customer-designated suppliers — what we call 3PV (Third-Party Vendor). The platform lets us integrate third-party vendors and warehouses for products unique to your organization. Rather than managing multiple ordering channels, your employees order everything through one centralized storefront. Orders are then automatically routed to the appropriate supplier, creating a seamless user experience while maintaining the flexibility to leverage your existing vendor relationships.

What's Included

3PV with ODP360

Custom Product Offerings

Have proprietary items unique to your business — branded hangers and bags, mannequins, equipment, or one-of-a-kind products? We add them to your branded marketplace alongside everything else, and route each order to the right source automatically.

Unified Storefront

One branded catalog, one place to go for your field team. Many specialty suppliers don't invest in serious e-commerce — putting their products on our platform gives your team a better purchasing experience than buying direct. And when integrations and punchouts are in play, you do one punchout into ODP360 instead of ten separate punchouts into ten supplier portals.

Centralized Fulfillment

One point of accountability for fulfillment across every sourced product. Orders route automatically to the right supplier, with consolidated tracking and a single invoicing path back to you — no more chasing ten different sources when something goes sideways.

Source Flexibility

Add, replace, or scale your proprietary product sources without disrupting your team's purchasing experience. The platform adapts behind the scenes — your users still see one storefront.

Examples of 3PV (Third-Party Vendor) in Action

3PV is about products, not vendors. Here are the kinds of proprietary items teams bring onto the ODP360 platform.

Branded hangers, bags, and retail consumables

Retailers already have contracts in place with their hanger and bag suppliers. 3PV puts those proprietary items on the same purchasing platform as everything else — one storefront, one team, one invoice.

Mannequins and store fixtures

Specialty items for new-store openings and visual merchandising. Your existing fixture sources stay in place — your field team orders through one branded storefront and we coordinate fulfillment.

Brand-distinctive proprietary products

Skateboard tools for an action-sports retailer. Shaved-ice machine consumables for a quick-serve operator. Specialty items unique to a single brand. 3PV adds them to the platform alongside your other categories.

Office-stocked items you currently fulfill yourselves

Items your team currently houses, picks, and ships internally. 3PV moves the fulfillment off your desks and into our warehouse — your team still orders from the same branded storefront.

Consolidated BillingBrand ControlSource FlexibilityReal-Time TrackingVendor-Neutral PlatformCost Allocation

Real Scenarios

How Customers Actually Use 3PV

A feature list doesn't tell you whether 3PV is right for you. Here are four real-world scenarios where consolidating vendors into a single ODP360 platform unlocks immediate, measurable value.

Mid-market industrial

Multi-source manufacturer consolidates to one portal

Problem

Three different sources for safety apparel, tools, and office supplies — three portals, three logins, three sets of monthly invoices. Procurement spent more time reconciling paperwork than sourcing.

Solution

3PV routes all orders through a single ODP360 storefront, consolidates reporting across sources, and issues one monthly invoice with cost-center allocation built in.

Outcome

40% reduction in purchase-order processing time, a single unified PO system, and real-time spend visibility across all three sources.

National franchise operator

Franchise group protects brand across locations

Problem

Individual franchisees were ordering branded materials from whichever local supplier was convenient — leading to inconsistent colors, outdated logos, and brand-guideline violations at the store level.

Solution

3PV brings the franchise's approved regional sources onto one branded storefront with locked templates, approval workflows, and location-specific catalogs.

Outcome

Zero brand-guideline violations in the first quarter post-launch; franchisees still get their preferred regional sources, but every order routes through brand-controlled templates.

Regional health system

Healthcare network unifies clinical + corporate purchasing

Problem

Clinical supply sources and corporate apparel sources operated in totally separate procurement tracks. Leadership had no consolidated view of non-medical spend across the system.

Solution

3PV brings clinical supply, uniform, and promo sources onto one ODP360 platform with department-level user groups, budget controls, and cross-product reporting.

Outcome

Executive dashboard now shows total non-clinical spend in real time; department heads can self-serve orders within pre-approved budgets instead of queuing tickets with central procurement.

Fast-growth technology company

Growing enterprise scales sources without chaos

Problem

After an acquisition, the company inherited a set of supplier relationships and couldn't afford disruption — but running two completely separate procurement systems wasn't tenable either.

Solution

3PV brought the inherited sources onto the existing ODP360 platform over 30 days. End users saw no change to the storefront; the back end quietly routed orders to the new sources.

Outcome

Zero downtime for end users through the transition, 100% source continuity, and a clear path to consolidate duplicate relationships on the procurement team's own timeline.

Why ODP360

The ODP360 Advantage

When you manage 3pv through ODP360, you get more than products — you get a complete platform with visibility, control, and support.

Keep your existing supplier relationships intact

Consolidated billing and reporting across every sourced product

Reduced procurement processing time

Brand control and compliance enforcement on every order

Scale your proprietary product catalog without operational complexity

Custom Webstores

One Platform. Complete Control.

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