Playbook: How Aftermarket Parts Businesses Modernize B2B Commerce With ACES 5.0 and PIES 8.0

✔ What Changed in ACES 5.0 and PIES 8.0: An explainer of the renamed elements and new 2.0 reference databases, plus Reveation Labs CEO’s advice on mapping, validating, and cutting over without breaking search or partner feeds.

✔ A Real Parts Distributor at Scale: How KW Parts manages 4M+ parts across 30 countries on one foundation, with sub-second search, and launched Cadillac Europe’s consumer store on the same backend in about three months.

✔ More Proof From the Field: An 8.6M+ SKU parts catalog with 90% faster search, and a 110K+-part aerospace aftermarket catalog connected to ERP pricing and multi-warehouse inventory.

✔ The Three Platforms Teams Weigh, and Where Each Stops: Turnkey vertical, monolithic suite, or SaaS cart—and the forces that turn a chronic platform problem into a funded decision.

✔ A Self-Check, Not a Scorecard: Grouped yes/no questions on fitment data, B2B pricing, and architecture, plus a frank note on when a simpler platform is the right answer.