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By your side: grown from 25 years in the PBS world — today the European platform for business & workplace supplies.

Our story

Built by the industry, for the industry

enchase was founded in 1996 as a non-profit organisation by four German suppliers in the paper, office supplies and stationery industry. What started as a modest idea — manufacturers providing electronic data to their dealers and receiving orders in return — has grown into a leading B2B data hub. Through globalisation and technological progress, the platform now connects manufacturers, distributors and retailers of every size across the European paper, office and stationery markets, and increasingly the toy sector.

A broader market ambition

More than PBS: the platform for business & workplace supplies

The new name signals a broader strategic outlook for the platform. enchase has grown up in the office-products industry, but its scope now extends much further — into business & workplace supplies, the entire universe of products that organisations need to operate and to equip their workplaces.

Alongside traditional paper, office and stationery categories, this includes safety and personal protective equipment, cleaning and hygiene products, breakroom supplies, facility supplies, MRO consumables and adjacent B2B assortments.

Modern B2B commerce no longer stops at historic industry borders. Distributors and buyers think in needs and procurement processes, not in legacy category silos. That is what enchase is built for: a European platform for data, trust, commerce and agentic commerce across business & workplace supplies.

Business & Workplace Supplies — six product worlds arranged in a constellation: office, PPE, cleaning, breakroom, facility and MRO

“We come from the PBS world — and that experience remains a core part of our DNA. But the requirements of our distributors, vendors and system partners reach far beyond it. With enchase we are opening the platform up to business & workplace supplies and laying the foundation to bring adjacent assortments into B2B commerce — data-driven, transaction-ready and ready for the age of agentic commerce.”

Christoph EberzManaging Director, PBS Network GmbH

20+ years of experience

1996foundedBy four German suppliers in the paper and office industry.
20+years experienceContinuously connecting manufacturers, distributors and retailers.
200+vendorsActive in the enchase network today.

What we want to achieve

Simplify complex B2B processes

We are building the European data and transaction platform for business & workplace supplies — structured, integration-ready and prepared for agentic commerce. Our ambition: bundle product data, EDI, marketplace and AI-driven data quality into one platform that serves manufacturers, distributors and retailers in equal measure.

We maximise the number of manufacturers, distributors, retailers and assortments in the network, and continually develop innovative solutions that make B2B commerce future-proof — from the classic PBS world through to adjacent operating-supplies categories.

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