SAP Commerce Cloud


SAP Commerce Cloud: An Overview and Key Considerations

What is SAP Commerce Cloud?

SAP Commerce Cloud is one of the solution categories within the SAP Customer Experience portfolio comprised of offerings that unify a seamless purchase process experience across channels, whether it’s business-to-business, business-to-consumer, or business-to-business-to-consumer. The solution can support the future business needs of the enterprise on a single platform by managing multiple sales and communications channels.

Key capabilities include:

  • Scaling
  • Cloud-based build tools
  • Database-as-a-service
  • Automated deployments

Key Considerations for SAPinsiders

SAP Commerce Cloud: An Overview and Key Considerations

What is SAP Commerce Cloud?

SAP Commerce Cloud is one of the solution categories within the SAP Customer Experience portfolio comprised of offerings that unify a seamless purchase process experience across channels, whether it’s business-to-business, business-to-consumer, or business-to-business-to-consumer. The solution can support the future business needs of the enterprise on a single platform by managing multiple sales and communications channels.

Key capabilities include:

  • Scaling
  • Cloud-based build tools
  • Database-as-a-service
  • Automated deployments

Key Considerations for SAPinsiders

  • Gain agility and lower TCO with your SAP Commerce Cloud deployment. Not only does the solution provide a lower total cost of ownership (TCO), but companies achieve a level of agility that allows them to scale depending on the customer environment (e.g., sales and promotions), according to Niladri Gupta, Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting LLP, and Conner Helton, Senior Product Manager at SAP.
  • Ensure ongoing functionality and security features to respond to customer needs. In today’s omnichannel environment, businesses are faced with a host of consumer expectations, from a seamless digital shopping experience to next-day or same-day shipping. An on-premise solution poses challenges with ongoing service and functionality as the market evolves. Bahaa Badran, Global Vice President, Cloud MOVE, SAP Customer Experience Services, SAP, writes that this is where SAP Commerce Cloud provides the greatest benefit. “Cloud deployments allow valuable flexibility for ongoing maintenance, development, and servicing: most work on the platform can be done remotely and very effectively.” Read the full article to learn best practices to migrate from on-premise to SAP Commerce Cloud without jeopardizing your revenue stream.
  • Drive value to suppliers with greater business insights and end-to-end visibility. The COVID-19 pandemic created a surge in e-commerce adoption. For example, Breakthru Beverage invested in SAP Commerce Cloud and other solutions to better understand what customers are doing to help the company drive value to suppliers in return. With volatile demand patterns, having an end-to-end SAP Commerce Cloud solution enables Breakthru Beverage to adapt and quickly respond to changing customer preferences and behaviors. Read the full article to learn how the company accelerated its e-commerce integration.

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    To achieve harmony between corporate pricing teams and branch managers valuing autonomy, companies like Rush Enterprises can utilize automation for cost pass-through, share revenue intelligence, and promote account-specific actions, while focusing on product alternatives and supplier collaboration to optimize profitability.

  2. How Automation Helps the Very Human Nature of Pricing

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    A recent roundtable by Zilliant highlighted the need for pricing guidance that empowers sales reps through data and automation, exemplified by Rush Enterprises’ swift pricing recommendations, which improve collaboration between corporate pricing teams and branch managers.

  3. The Missing Element of Automation in Pricing Strategies

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    How automation can solve the tension between corporate pricing teams and branch managers that value autonomy.

  4. Case Study: How Blackwoods Increased Online Capabilities with SAP Commerce Cloud & Coveo

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    Blackwood, Australia’s largest supplier of industry and safety products, enhanced its digital capabilities through a partnership with SAP Commerce Cloud and Coveo, resulting in increased digital sales penetration from 33% to 55%, improved search functionality, and streamlined operations, positioning the company for continued growth.

  5. Beiersdorf Customer Story

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    Beiersdorf: Reaching out to worldwide markets through the rapid rollout of online shops.

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  7. Growing a Profitable B2B Digital e-Commerce Business

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    Companies are using SAP Commerce Cloud to delight customers with consumer-grade buying experiences for complex B2B purchases.

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    “Shed light on top trends from commerce experts that can help pave the way towards a profitable, sustainable, and resilient future.”

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    Composable commerce adopts a modular strategy for digital commerce, enhancing the principles of modularity by enabling business users to design commerce experiences through low or high code platforms. Composability is a fundamental component of SAP’s comprehensive Customer Experience (CX) Strategy. SAP acknowledges the unique nature of each industry and enterprise, challenging the efficacy of generic,…

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    Breakthru Beverage Uses E-commerce to Expand Distribution

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    For Breakthru Beverage Group, a leading North American distributor of the world’s top luxury and premium wine, spirits, and beer brands, the company’s core mission is to be the best and most assessable distributor in the industry to work with. The company operates 36 facilities (including more than 15 distribution centers) throughout all of Canada…