Defining the Integration Scope

Powertools sells power tools. It's a fictional business-to-business (B2B) company that could be located anywhere. Powertools is used as an example to show the integration of SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP Commerce Cloud for a sales order fulfillment business process. John Smith and Min Li are also fictional. For the purposes of our story, they're integration developers working for Powertools on this project to integrate the two systems for the needed sales order fulfillment scenario. John is on the SAP S/4HANA Cloud side and Min SAP Commerce Cloud. Their project will also involve the use of the SAP Cloud Integration capability of SAP Business Technology Platform's (BTP) Integration Suite.

So, here's the situation:

Powertools' loyal and expanding customer base keep its sales managers busy on the phone and email taking orders. It's a struggle to keep up. It's also an unnecessarily time consuming and annoyingly error prone manual entry to their back-end SAP S/4HANA Cloud system.

Powertools' management has decided to launch an SAP Commerce web store where customers could browse, compare, and order power tools online. This launch would streamline the sales process, reducing errors and sales managers' workloads. Instead of sales managers entering phone or email orders, customers would enter their own via the web store that would be automatically integrated with the SAP S/4HANA Cloud back end. Error-free processing and fulfillment would be the result. Company management is sure this will be a game-changer.

In this course, we'll use the following products.

• SAP S/4HANA Cloud
• SAP Commerce Cloud
• SAP Integration Suite Cloud Integration capability (Cloud Integration for short)

SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a ready-to-run cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that delivers the latest industry best practices and continuous innovation. It’s a software-as-a-service (SaaS) product, which means that the software is licensed on a subscription basis and is accessed via the internet. SAP takes care of many tasks for you, such as installation and upgrades, so that you can concentrate more on your business.

SAP Commerce Cloud is a highly flexible and modular platform for delivering modern customer experiences. Its rich and extensible library of functionality ensures the success of any commerce project. It provides a trusted e-commerce platform that can help you innovate at scale and tap enterprise-wide data to boost profits and customer satisfaction, with a standardized, automated, end-to-end solution that allows your projects to release code from repository to cloud.

Cloud Integration is an integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) that helps you quickly integrate on-premise and cloud-based processes, services, applications, events, and data. Accelerate innovation, automate more processes, and realize a faster time to value. Connect and automate business processes to innovate now with proven prebuilt integrations, APIs, connectors, and best practices. Built as a single, comprehensive integration platform, Cloud Integration empowers you to integrate and automate processes with speed and confidence across SAP and third-party landscapes and harmonize experiences across the extended enterprise.

To have a common understanding of the terminology used between SAP Commerce Cloud and SAP S/4HANA Cloud and how the common objects correlate, you can refer to this overview: