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A new online shop with SAP integration —
for Held AG.

01 · Starting point

Held AG wanted to expand its direct sales — and needed a shop for it that does more than take orders: one that carries them through to where they are actually processed.

02 · Challenge

The new shop had to reflect Swiss requirements — and it could not become an island: order processing runs in SAP.

03 · What we did

We adapted the shop system to Swiss requirements, designed for acceptance among the people who would use it, and automated the day-to-day work by integrating with SAP through a middleware — over a project running twelve months.

04 · Result

A shop that runs alongside the group's SAP — confirmed by the work that followed: campaign integration, bulk upload of new products, migration of domain and URLs.

System architecture
Online shop
Adapted to Swiss requirements
Middleware
Automated data flow
SAP
Group ERP · Order processing
Fig. 01 — System architecture (schematic)

Techno­logies used

Shop systemA standard platform adapted to Swiss requirements.
SAPOrder processing and inventory across the group.
MiddlewareAutomated data flow between the shop and SAP.

What we took away

Follow-up work is the most reliable measure of a shop project — it shows that the solution holds up in everyday use.

A sales channel only carries itself once the order arrives in the leading system without a step in between. Otherwise the effort grows with every order.

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