ERP for E-Commerce – All Channels, One System, Live Stock Levels
Online shop, marketplaces, brick-and-mortar retail – product data, prices and stock from a single source. No manual reconciliation between systems, no overselling, no outdated product information. Orders flow automatically into the ERP, dispatch and invoicing follow without manual handoffs.
What an Integrated ERP Does for Your Commerce
Manage Product Data Once, Use It Everywhere
Descriptions, images, attributes – maintained centrally in the ERP and automatically pushed to your online shop, Amazon, eBay or print catalogue. Different texts for B2B and B2C? Multiple languages for international markets? No problem. You change it once, all channels are up to date. No copy-paste errors, no forgotten updates, no conflicting product information.
Variants Under Control, Not in Chaos
T-shirts in 12 colours and 8 sizes? The ERP manages variants via a master item – you create the master data once and the system generates all combinations. Prices, images and texts are inherited automatically or overridden selectively. When entering an order, a matrix immediately shows which variants are available. No clicking through hundreds of individual items.
Real-Time Stock – No Overselling
Every order from the online shop immediately reduces the available stock – visible across all channels. Selling on Amazon and in your own shop? The ERP synchronises both. No customer orders something that another customer just bought through a different channel. You deliver what you promise and avoid cancellations and apology emails.
From Order to Delivery Without Manual Work
Orders from all channels arrive as sales orders in the ERP – with customer data, line items, shipping method and payment information. Picking, dispatch, invoice: one seamless process. Shipment tracking is sent automatically to the customer. At month end you see not just revenue, but margin per channel, per product group, per customer. Data instead of gut feeling.
Sebastian Eckmann
Managing Director, Stages Cycling Europe
By connecting our online shop to SAP Business One, we had our full product range available online very quickly. The first customers had already placed orders on the same day!
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Frequently Asked Questions
How SAP Business One turns your e-commerce from a cost driver into a scalable growth channel.
Overselling happens when stock levels are not synchronised across systems: a customer buys the last item in the online shop while at the same moment the same item is sold via Amazon. SAP Business One is the central system for your stock levels. Every order – regardless of which channel – immediately reduces the available stock and updates all connected platforms. This also applies to goods receipts, returns and manual corrections. You only promise what you can actually deliver – and avoid cancellations, apology emails and the rating penalties that are particularly painful on marketplaces.
Fundamentally. Without ERP integration, someone manually types orders from the online shop into the inventory system, reconciles incoming payments by hand and creates delivery notes and invoices individually. With 20 orders a day, that fills half a working day. SAP Business One takes over this entire process automatically: orders are created as customer orders, payments matched, pick lists generated, shipping labels printed and invoices posted. Your staff only intervene when something deviates from the standard flow. Many of our e-commerce customers report that this frees up one to two full-time positions for more value-adding work.
Revenue is not the same as profit – especially in e-commerce, where marketplace fees, shipping costs, returns and advertising spend can eat up margins. SAP Business One makes these relationships visible. At the touch of a button you see the real margin per item, per channel and per customer group – not just gross profit, but after all costs. Which products perform on Amazon, which only in your own shop? Which customers order a lot but return half? With this data you make assortment and pricing decisions that actually make your online business more profitable – not just bigger.
B2B e-commerce has different requirements from classic B2C business: customer-specific prices, volume discounts, framework agreements, approval workflows and invoice payment instead of credit card. SAP Business One manages this logic centrally – your business customers automatically see their negotiated terms in the online shop, order on account and receive order confirmations with the correct conditions. Orders run through the same automated processes as B2C orders, but with the commercial depth your sales team and accounting department need. You open a digital ordering channel for your business customers without building special processes in the back office.
In e-commerce, order volumes often grow in leaps – seasonal peaks, successful campaigns or a new marketplace can double daily volume overnight. Without an integrated ERP, the back office then collapses: orders pile up, stock levels become inaccurate, delivery times explode. SAP Business One handles increasing volumes without requiring proportionally more staff. Whether 50 or 5,000 orders a day: the automation from order creation to invoicing remains the same. You can connect additional shops, marketplaces or international markets without having to rebuild your processes each time.
Returns are everyday business in e-commerce – and without a clean process, a margin killer. SAP Business One maps the entire returns process: from receipt of the return through quality inspection to credit note or refund. After inspection, returned goods are automatically added back to available stock and are immediately available for resale. In the online shop, the customer sees the current status of their return. Your accounting gets clean documents; your controlling gets meaningful return rates per item, channel and customer group. This allows you to identify problem products early and take action before returns eat into the margin.