SAP Business One in Ecommerce: Integration highlights

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SAP BO is moving to ecommerce with the acquisition of NetPoint ecommerce and web CRM modules, however if you currently have functioning ecommerce website the concept of redeployment may be not very appealing. Let’s take a look at easy ecommerce functionality

• Ecommerce Business Logic. When new customer decides to location the order, ecommerce should produce new customer record with delivery address, then produce web order, plus usually charge customer credit card. All this logic is standard functionality of out of shelf or custom made ecommerce application.

• Excel CSV Templates and Integration Workbench. First what could come to your mind is deploying user-friendly SAP Integration bench by placing customer and sales order information into Excel or csv templates. This may work, nevertheless it might be exposed to human errors and most likely you should consider, that these csv templates had been intended to help you with initial data integration and conversion from legacy ERP to SAP BO.

• Light SAP B1 SDK programming. This customization option is not as tough as you could believe of. You require Visual Studio .Net developer, familiar with C# or VB.Net programming. In SAP BO we suggest you do not import ecommerce orders as invoices, but rather place them as Sales Orders. The purpose – SAP BO Invoices are not stored in the batch but instantly posted when you add them – in our opinion you should review customer orders prior to post them all the way through to General Ledger

• SAP Business One as ERP Backend. Besides its integration capabilities, SAP BO has light manufacturing, bill of supplies, assembly, robust inventory control module, plus it has integrated CRM, which could assist you in generating customer leads via telemarketing campaigns, etc. SAP B1 has integration module, which enables you to consolidate SAP BO company to high-finish SAP application, such as mySAP or SAP All-in-One – this option should be considered by large businesses, opening subsidiaries overseas