In IT, we often say – garbage in, garbage out. Web scraping is a technology that retrieves unstructured information from web pages and stores it in a structured form. In our case, web scraping can be used to:

• Speed up the search for new suppliers
• Conduct better product research, obtaining price comparisons from several suppliers (helping to source the most cost-effective machines and equipment)
• Facilitate easier and faster pre-screening of a new supplier
• Enhance analysis of competition
• Quickly assemble a list of potential customers (sales leads)
• Seamlessly monitor own brand or own products
• Improve analysis of financial data from annual reports (analysis of competitors and their business partners)
• Implement robotic automation of repetitive processes