In case you do not want to use the
SAP Business ByDesign Commerce Add-on or the
Magento ByD Adapter this document provides the most important user stories for a custom integration of SAP Business ByDesign with webshop, commerce or customer portal solutions.
Sales Order real time calls: Consumers shall be able to get availability, price, tax and order execution information directly from ByDesign.
- During check-out real-time data is provided for:
- Price incl. customer specific prices & discounts
- Product availability (ATP)
- Shipping rate
- Taxes
- After checkout a sales order will be created automatically and executed in ByDesign
- New orders can be also buffered in the shop and transmitted periodically
- Prices and product availability can also be periodically exported from ByDesign to the webshop
- Price in orders can be overwritten by the webshop
Benefits: Real-time order processing with product availability, price and tax calculation
Account Synchronization: Consumer master data needs to be created and synchronized on both sides - the webshop & ByDesign.
- Accounts & contacts are created automatically in ByD after initial registration in webshop
- Existing accounts will be updated automatically
- Alternatively updates can be exchanged periodically
- User accounts and passwords should reside only in the webshop to make change simple
Benefits: Flexible synchronization of accounts and contacts
Product Catalog: Webshop administrators are enabled to initially and periodically load product catalogs from ByDesign to the webshop
- Product Catalog provides a collection of products and services
- The catalog is a subset of the product master data including the associated hierarchy
- Net and gross prices are part of the catalog
- Selection of distribution channel and sales organization allow to have specific prices for each channel.
- Additional data for a product can be retrieved by a specific webservices (e.g. material details, price, ATP)
- Create multiple catalogs with name, description and person responsible in Product and Services Portfolio work center
- Export catalog information to an xml file. The catalogs can be exported (as an action) for import to the web site
- Different catalogs could be utilized for different sales channels or regions.
- Automatically retrieve the product catalog with a Web Service call
Benefits: Easy & flexible synchronization of products with base prices
Here is a list of helpful documents which provide more details on how to use the open interfaces:
Overview on SAP Business ByDesign Customer Engagement