B2B e-commerce case studies from ECOPLAN

ECOPLAN has delivered reference projects in, among others, tools for Gühring, chemicals for Oest, packaging for Prodinger, construction for profine, and gate operators for Marantec. The projects range from the B2B shop to customer portals to PunchOut and order automation.

The Oest shop went live four months after the first workshop, the Prodinger shop four months after project kickoff. At Gühring, Germany went live after a few months, and further countries followed, in some cases within a few weeks. At profine, 8 further countries followed within 9 months after the go-live in Germany.

The reference projects run with SAP ECC 6.0 at Marantec, profine, and Oest, with SAP ECC, S/4HANA, and Business One at Gühring, and with Oracle at Prodinger. Prices and availabilities come at runtime from the ERP in each case.

The Gühring platform comprises 30 websites in 20 countries with around 250,000 products and variants. The profine solution runs in 10 countries and comprises around 80,000 own products plus third-party ranges.

Depending on the customer, ECOPLAN uses B2B web shops, customer portals, PunchOut via OCI and cXML, order automation via dispensing machines, and marketplaces for a trade, in each case integrated with the customer's ERP.