The process of handling orders from the B2B/ B2C web shop, marketplaces, and big customers like Walmart, were still done manually. Sambazon had to increase the headcount of their inside sales /administration team from three to eight people in the last 3 years, just to manually process the orders (due to their exponential growth and succession). Consequently, this resulted in infractions on the company’s part that were significantly deteriorating their profit margins.

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Integrations

• Synced data: ERP (SAP), e-commerce (Shopify), EDI-broker SPS Commerce
• Full Catalog sync ERP to e-commerce
• Customer data account creating and login processes
• Stock and availability
• Orders process
• EDI Walmart
• Delivery process, including Shipments, track and trace to e-commerce

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‍Endpoints

1. Shopify
   Shopify is a multinational e-commerce platform that powers over 1,700,000 stores globally. Apart from providing 100+ Professional e-commerce store themes, Shopify offers an array of services such as payments, marketing, shipping, and customer engagement tools. It also enables product selling via drop-shopping integration and social media integration. Apart from enabling you to Process Orders, Shopify also helps Manage Products and Collections, Run Marketing Campaigns, automate Customer Follow-Ups, Discount Creation, and much more.
2. SAP
   One of the largest software companies in the world, SAP is a market leader in providing ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software. Providing SAP customers generates a huge chunk of total global commerce. Helping the management of business processes and developing solutions for effective data processing and information flow across the organization, SAP provides more than 100 solutions that cover all business functions. With the largest cloud portfolio, SAP customers are said to generate 87% of global commerce. SAP helps businesses evolve with its machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies to help turn customers.

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“We are expecting to see at least 35% growth in EDI revenue and a 50% increase in e-commerce. We credit Alumio to playing a major role in enabling us to do so”.

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Why Sambazon chose Alumio

✓ Alumio maximizes profit margins

✓ Allows environmentally and ethically friendly companies to give back to nature

✓ Offers software that normalizes data and stores it in one domain for a clearer, more efficient working ecology

✓ Fast integration reduce "time-to-market" and connect new software and data sources easily

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

1. 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.
2. 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.

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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’

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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

Having initially connected their e-commerce platform built on Adobe Commerce with stand-alone accounting software, Pelican Products faced errors in both finance and inventory management. To tackle this issue and optimize their digital experience, they decided to integrate their e-commerce Platform to their ERP, i.e. SAP ECC, and brought on board Corra, a renowned system integrator in the United States. While researching the most effective way to create the e-commerce to ERP integration for Pelican Products, Corra encountered Alumio and decided that the Alumio iPaaS along with the powerful SAP API Plugin solution was the best option for them to create this integration.

In close collaboration, Alumio, Corra, and Pelican Products intensively approached the project to meticulously deliver the integration. Connecting an ERP like Pelican Products' SAP ECC with an e-commerce platform such as Adobe Commerce is far from easy since by default SAP lacks key B2B & B2C data points or web services required to effectively do so. Helping avoid what would usually be a long and expensive bespoke integration project, Alumio’s SAP API Plugin installed these needed web services, to enhance the integration capabilities of Pelican Product’s SAP ECC. After installing and configuring the SAP API Plugin, creating the full-blown Adobe Commerce to SAP ECC integration via Alumio’s no-code integration platform, or iPaaS, was significantly easier.

The integration running through Alumio’s iPaaS led to a more optimized and real-time e-commerce experience, giving Pelican Products centralized control over their data. Resulting in transparent and reliable inventory levels, now when an order is placed on the Pelican Products website, product availability and prices are in complete sync and up-to-date with the latest data available on the ERP, in real-time. 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/shipping updates and to help process returns, significantly improving the digital commerce experience for Pelican Products.

In fact, having successfully established a seamless D2C channel for the US & Canada, Pelican Products decided to expand its digital operations in Europe from Spain. Utilizing the future-proof integration created by Alumio’s iPaaS, they are now working with a local system integrator to connect their EU e-commerce site to their SAP back office.‍

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Endpoints

1. SAP ECC
   The SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) is a well-known ERP software solution including applications for a business’ logistics, sales, finance, marketing, customer service, HR, or even product planning. These different systems are linked together through a customizable system and run via a database of one's choice, while additionally allowing connections to customize third-party applications.
2. Alumio’s SAP API Plugin
   Alumio’s 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 SAP’s ability to integrate with e-commerce, PIM, CRM or other software. Developed as a SAP-certified ABAP stack, Alumio’s API Plugin helps instantly provide data points that would otherwise take a significant amount of time and money to create. This reduces the time to market and additionally creates an improved ROI. Above all, it helps you create fast, flexible and future-proof integrations.
3. Adobe Commerce | Magento
   Adobe Commerce, formerly known as Magento, is a multichannel e-commerce platform based on open-source technology through which online merchants are provided with a flexible shopping cart system, as well as wide control over the look, content, and functionality of their online stores. Adobe Commerce, or Magento, offers powerful marketing, search engine optimization and catalog-management tools.

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“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 project would be a success”

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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