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Discover which web services your SAP ECC - R/3 is missing to improve commerce connectivity
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Configure the newly installed web services in your SAP ECC - R/3, and utilize the data for various purposes
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Enabling faster ERP to e-commerce integrations for Pelican Products with API Plugin
Accelerate time to market
Simplify your order management
Use the delivered configuration features to map the data objects to the correct SAP objects, in order to:
- Sync order information
- Get holistic order overview
- Automate customer orders
- Calculate shipping costs
and enable many more such real-time capabilities, by installing the Alumio API Plugin.
Automate your inventory
Better insight into stock and shipping details
Explore the mapping features of the web service 'Get Price and Stock', in order to receive:
- Insight into inventory stock
- Combined stock values from different warehouses
- Stock from the country of online buyers
- Shipping details
and enable many more real-time capabilities, by installing the Alumio API Plugin.
Get real-time B2B pricing
Enable accurate pricing, discount and stock
Get the web service ‘Order Simulate Business Process’ to enable your ERP to push:
- Order discounts
- Tax calculated
- Additional surcharges
- Shipment chargers
and enable many more such real-time capabilities, by installing the Alumio API Plugin.
Here’s how we’ve been rated
What we like about Alumio as a platform is that it’s flexible and that it can change or be modified to suit our evolving business needs. Instead of having to hear “This is how the system works, deal with it”, with Alumio whenever there are issues or roadblocks, they always get solved and that’s a good feeling to have.”
Geert Smit
COO, b-boo baby and lifestyle GmbH
Alumio gives us the ability to develop an integrated e-commerce platform that’s fast, flexible, and reliable. It helped us deeply integrate our custom ERP. A very flexible connection between systems makes Jac Hensen online much more agile for the future. We can’t wait to see what’s on the horizon for Alumio and Magento (Adobe Commerce).”
Jos Pieters
CTO, Jac Hensen
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Enabling future-proof ERP and e-commerce connectivity for Pelican Products
Situated in California, United States, employing over 1400 employees, Pelican Products specializes in the design and manufacture of protective case solutions and advanced portable lighting systems. Their product line includes coolers, phone cases, flashlights, and drinkware, to travel gear, and even backpacks. Devoting focus and resources to being sustainable, Pelican Products cases and lights are recyclable and produced to last a lifetime. In their quest to integrate their e-commerce platform with their SAP ERP system, Pelican Products discovered the Alumio integration platform. Apart from bringing over 10 years of experience in developing ERP connectivity to the project, Alumio also helped Pelican Products with its unique Alumio SAP API Plugin solution. The plugin significantly simplifies SAP integrations with SaaS and cloud apps for digital commerce.
Having initially connected their e-commerce platform built on Adobe Commerce with stand-alone accounting software, Pelican Products faced finance and inventory management errors. To tackle this issue and optimize their digital experience, they decided to integrate their e-commerce platform to their ERP, SAP ERP Core Component (SAP ECC). To help with this they brought Corra, a renowned system integrator in the United States, on board.
While researching the most effective way to create the complex e-commerce to ERP integration for Pelican Products, Corra encountered Alumio iPaaS (integration Platform as a Service). They decided that the Alumio integration platform and its powerful SAP API Plugin solution was the best option for them to build the SAP ECC to Adobe commerce integration while ensuring real-time data exchange.
How did the Alumio SAP API plugin speed up the ERP to e-commerce integration?
In close collaboration, Alumio, Corra, and Pelican Products meticulously approached the project to deliver the integration. Connecting an ERP like Pelican Products' SAP ECC with an e-commerce platform such as Adobe Commerce is challenging. This is because SAP ECC is an on-premises system, and by default, it lacks key B2B & B2C API points or web services required to integrate with SaaS and cloud apps effectively.
Alumio helped Pelican Products avoid what would usually be a long and expensive bespoke integration project. Using the Alumio API Plugin, they were able o directly install the required web services natively in SAP ECC, enhancing its integration capabilities. After configuring the SAP API Plugin, creating the full-blown Adobe Commerce to SAP ECC integration via the Alumio low-code integration platform was significantly easier.
How did the integration optimize Pelican Products' commerce experience?
The integration running through the Alumio iPaaS led to a more optimized and real-time e-commerce experience, giving Pelican Products centralized control over their data. This resulted in transparent, reliable, and real-time inventory levels. Now when an order is placed on the Pelican Products website, product availability and prices are synchronized and updated with the latest data available on the ERP. Detailed product information, real-time insights, and stock management are just some of the many other benefits resulting from the integration. More importantly, a proper order process was created to ensure real-time delivery and shipping updates to help their returns process, significantly improving the digital commerce experience for Pelican Products.
Having successfully established a seamless D2C channel for the US & Canada, Pelican Products decided to expand its digital operations in Europe from Spain. After building their future-proof integration with the Alumio iPaaS, they started working with a local system integrator to connect their EU e-commerce site to their SAP back office.
Endpoints
SAP ECC
The SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) is a well-known ERP software solution for managing logistics, sales, finance, marketing, customer service, HR, and product planning. These different systems are linked through a customizable system and run via a database of one's choice, allowing connections to customize third-party applications.
Alumio SAP API Plugin
The Alumio SAP API Plugin is an exclusive solution, ensuring key B2B or B2C data points are installed into the default SAP ERP. On being installed, these data points help significantly improve the ERP's ability to integrate with e-commerce, PIM, CRM, or other software. Developed as an SAP-certified ABAP stack, the Alumio API Plugin helps instantly provide data points that would otherwise cost significant time and money to create. It ensures faster ERP integrations via the Alumio iPaaS, which also enables real-time data exchange, synchronization, and flexible data transformation.
Adobe Commerce (formerly Magento)
Adobe Commerce, formerly known as Magento, is a multichannel e-commerce platform based on open-source technology. It enables online merchants to have a flexible shopping cart system and gives them comprehensive control over their online stores' look, content, and functionality. Adobe Commerce, formerly Magento, offers powerful marketing, search engine optimization, and catalog-management tools.
“The collaborative approach really sparked our interest at Pelican. Both Corra and Alumio approached the integration in a collaborative way, finding answers to our requirements that gave us the confidence that this integration project would be a success”
Why Pelican Products chose Alumio
✓ Enhancing SAP connectivity through a unique API Plugin solution
✓ Creating frictionless customer experience
✓ Establishing a future-proof way to integrate software & systems
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Enabling future-proof ERP and e-commerce connectivity for Pelican Products
Enabling future-proof ERP and e-commerce connectivity for Pelican Products.
Empowering Obelink’s digital transformation through future-proof integrations.
Meet Obelink, a renowned Dutch company specializing in camping and outdoors. What began as a family-run business in 1959 swiftly transitioned into one of the largest camping and outdoor stores in Europe, selling across seven webshops in several European countries. With over sixty years of successful business experience, Obelink has become a key player in the industry and anticipates an equally successful future.
However, with customer demand changing daily, businesses must naturally follow suit and adapt to new markets. In view of this, Obelink’s successful future inevitably involves connected applications and the ability to be flexible. In other words, it involves Alumio.
Before venturing into the future, it is helpful to look in the rearview mirror and see what Obelink encountered along the way… Like many organizations, Obelink already had a complex set of applications with multiple data silos at the start of the project. Among these applications were an ERP, WMS, POS, and e-commerce, and if that wasn’t enough, a PIM system was due to be added into the mix! With a future-focused vision, Obelink's objective was to create standardized e-commerce processes that would support total digitalization and accommodate rapid expansion. The integrations Obelink was interested in having were the following:
Integrations
- B2C customer (company and contacts) data login and account creation process
- Stock and availability
- Omnichannel order process POS, e-commerce via RetailVista
Endpoints
Magento 2 PWA for e-commerce
Future-proofing was one of the reasons for Obelink to switch to Adobe Commerce (formerly Magento) since the modern architecture and API allows for Adobe Commerce to be modified in a modular way. In other words, with Adobe Commerce, a component that no longer meets future requirements can be swiftly replaced by one that does. Additionally, since Obelink wanted to go beyond renewing its e-commerce site, the transition to Adobe Commerce offered the perfect opportunity to start with a clean slate. However, some questions needed to be addressed: How could this new e-commerce platform be connected with the rest of the IT ecosystem? How would it be possible to make the entire landscape of applications modular? And how well was it prepared to connect with new applications and platforms?
ERP via RetailVista
RetailVista is an excellent POS cloud solution, given its flexibility, scalability, and integration-friendly features. However, some of the flexibility and features for loyalty challenged Alumio to solve some complex issues relating to loyalty points, such as gift cards needing to be synchronized between ERP, WMS, POS, and the Webshop. Alumio addressed all these issues and enabled Obelink to digitalize key business processes since their IT ecosystem was no longer slowing them down.
Enterprise Resource Management (ERP) via BlueRetail
Warehouse Management System (WMS) via RealtimeWMS
Point of Sale (POS) via RetailVista
"As we look to expand and to digitize our organization further, we know that the foundation we have built with Alumio will not only help us scale our e-commerce platform as needed but also enable us to create a seamless customer journey across all channels."
- Obelink
Why Obelink chose Alumio
✓ Scalable and future-proof infrastructure and software interchangeability
✓ Alumio's monitoring features help the high performance of the integrations
✓ Unlocking and unifying data from legacy and homegrown systems
✓ Digitizing all business processes using Alumio as one central hub for all integrations
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Empowering Obelink’s digital transformation through future-proof integrations.
Empowering Obelink’s expansion with digital transformation through future-proof integrations.
Integrating Dyka’s B2B landscape for a 360-degree view of processes in real-time
Dyka Group is a business unit of the Tessenderlo Group, which consists of three brands; DYKA, BT Nyloplast and JDP. They are the leading producers and distributors of plastic pipe systems, sewage systems and rainwater infiltration among many other services. Dyka are represented on a national and international pedestal with 19 branches in the Netherlands (with over 500 employees) in addition to representatives in Belgium, France, UK, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia and Romania. By transporting water, air and other energy sources in a reliable, efficient and sustainable way, they do their bit, for a better planet every day, which therefore alludes to their nickname of “Natures Network”.
Dyka & Alumio
As Dyka is responsible for producing and distributing essential services that help the environment, they opted to integrate with Alumio to maximize market efficiency (through the integration of twenty-two web services) in terms of customers, gain increasing control of their stock, deliveries, and services as well as finance, logistics, HR, product planning and customer service, that would be potentially linked together into a single, customizable system, run on a database of Dyka’s choice.
Solution & Reasoning
By connecting Dyka’s ERP (SAP S4 Hana) to their e-commerce platform (Magento 2) twenty-two web services were delivered which are needed for full B2B Commerce so that they could achieve a real-time and 360-degree view of all the ongoing processes within their company. Essentially, Dyka can now take control of every aspect of their organizational structure which creates a seamlessly scalable IT landscape that is ready for digital success. Several specific Magento B2B are developed to deal with real-time information delivered from Alumio’s SAP API Connector, such as B2B prices, order simulation calls, ATP available to process stock information, and much more. Thus, everything is monitored to ensure real-time insights are enforced to contribute to an increasingly robust platform that serves our planet in sustainably innovative ways.
Endpoints
Magento 2
Magento is an e-commerce platform built on open-source technology which provides online merchants with a flexible shopping cart system, as well as control over the look, content, and functionality of their online store. Magento offers powerful marketing, search engine optimization, and catalog-management tools.
SAP S4 Hana
SAP S4 Hana includes various features, including accounting integration, PO management, order management, analytics/reporting, warehouse management, supply chain management, sales management, purchasing, project management, HR management, financial management, enterprise asset management, distribution management, dashboard, inventory management, CRM, and accounting management.
By transporting water, air and other energy sources in a reliable, efficient and sustainable way, we do our part - for a better planet every day. That’s why we call ourselves ‘Natures Network’
Why Dyka chose Alumio
✓ Future-proofing scalable infrastructure and software interchangeability.
✓ Full control of stock (360-degree monitoring)
✓ Constant monitoring of Finances (Profit Margins and lower expenditure
✓ Digitalization of their company which is environmentally friendly
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Integrating Dyka’s B2B landscape for a 360-degree view of processes in real-time
Integrating Dyka’s B2B landscape for a 360-degree view of customers and processes in real-time.