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Salesforce B2B Commerce implementation, SAP S/4HANA ERP integration & Akeneo PIM architecture for global electrical distribution and enterprise account-based commerce
Elogic Commerce partnered with Rexel, a global distributor of electrical supplies, automation components, and energy solutions, to design and implement a Salesforce B2B Commerce platform integrated with SAP S/4HANA ERP and Akeneo PIM. The initiative unified enterprise commerce, customer relationship management, product information, and ERP-driven operations into a single account-based commerce ecosystem serving large industrial buyers, contractors, infrastructure project teams, and contract customers.
Managing 300k+ SKUs across electrical, automation, and energy product categories with contract pricing and complex procurement workflows, Rexel required a platform combining the CRM-native intelligence of Salesforce with the transactional rigor of SAP S/4HANA and the product data depth of Akeneo.
reduction in manual order processing through automated SAP S/4HANA order injection and validation
increase in self-service order placement among enterprise procurement teams
real-time inventory accuracy between Salesforce B2B Commerce and SAP S/4HANA
Rexel is a global leader in the distribution of electrical products, industrial automation components, and energy solutions, serving contractors, industrial enterprises, infrastructure projects, and utility customers across multiple international markets. The company operates a complex multi-country B2B distribution model spanning large enterprise procurement organizations, contract-based pricing agreements, multi-region operational structures with localized assortments, and extensive SKU complexity across electrical and industrial supply chains.
Before the engagement, Rexel’s digital commerce ecosystem was supported by SAP S/4HANA as the core ERP system handling pricing, inventory, contract management, and order fulfillment, while Salesforce served as the CRM system managing account relationships and sales operations. Product data was fragmented across multiple internal and supplier systems, creating inconsistencies in catalog management and limiting the scalability of digital procurement experiences. Leadership prioritized a unified enterprise commerce architecture connecting CRM intelligence, ERP execution, and product data governance into a single scalable B2B commerce platform aligned with multi-country contract customer modernization and digital procurement expansion priorities.
This engagement combined CRM-driven commerce architecture with ERP integration complexity and large-scale product data management across a global electrical and industrial catalog.
Salesforce B2B Commerce operates within the broader Salesforce ecosystem with deep ties to Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and account workflows. The platform had to leverage account intelligence, opportunity context, and customer engagement history from the existing Salesforce environment while serving as a transactional channel for enterprise buyers across multiple international markets.
SAP S/4HANA owns customer master data, contract pricing, inventory, payment terms, credit holds, and fulfillment. Integration had to handle high-volume bidirectional sync, real-time inventory for enterprise procurement workflows, contract-specific pricing precedence, and order injection with validation against SAP credit and contract rules.
Rexel’s enterprise base operated under negotiated contract pricing with customer-specific price lists, volume breaks, SKU-level overrides, and entitlement rules. Replicating this in Salesforce B2B Commerce required deterministic synchronization from SAP with conflict resolution, audit logging, and contract precedence handling across multi-country contract structures.
With 300k+ SKUs across electrical, automation, and energy product categories, Akeneo PIM was positioned as the canonical product information source feeding Salesforce B2B Commerce, while SAP S/4HANA remained the source of pricing and inventory truth.
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Customer-facing teams operated across Salesforce CRM, legacy commerce, and SAP S/4HANA without unified account intelligence at the commerce layer. Enterprise buyers experienced inconsistent pricing, fragmented account history, and limited self-service across digital channels.
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A significant share of enterprise activity originated through field sales, inside sales, and account managers handling quotes, contract negotiations, and order entry manually. Each transaction required contract validation, pricing verification, and manual SAP entry, consuming capacity that could otherwise be directed toward account development and contract expansion.
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Pricing, inventory, contract entitlements, and credit status all resided in SAP S/4HANA. The commerce platform had to defer to SAP for canonical state while delivering modern transactional performance without compromising consistency or contract precedence.
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Product information was distributed across SAP master data, supplier feeds, and legacy catalog systems with inconsistent specifications, missing certifications, and limited digital enrichment across the 300k+ SKU base. Akeneo PIM was selected as the canonical source but required integration with both upstream SAP and downstream Salesforce.
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Enterprise procurement teams expected account-specific catalogs, contract pricing visibility, multi-buyer hierarchies, approval workflows, and self-service quote management. These patterns standard commerce platforms could not support without significant CRM integration depth.
Elogic Commerce implemented Salesforce B2B Commerce with account-based storefronts tied to Salesforce account records, customer-specific catalogs driven by SAP contract entitlements, role-based purchasing permissions, quote-to-order workflows integrated with Salesforce opportunities, multi-buyer purchasing hierarchies, and procurement self-service tools including order history, invoice visibility, quick reorder, and saved purchase lists. The platform was architected to leverage existing Salesforce account intelligence while serving as the transactional channel for enterprise buyers across Rexel’s multi-country operations.
Elogic Commerce developed a middleware-mediated SAP S/4HANA integration providing bidirectional synchronization across customers, products, contract pricing, inventory, and orders. The middleware handled queue management, idempotent retry semantics, dead-letter handling, and reconciliation jobs. Six primary data flows were implemented: customer master sync from SAP to Salesforce, contract pricing sync with precedence handling, product data sync coordinated with Akeneo, real-time inventory availability, order injection from Salesforce to SAP with validation and credit hold checking, and order status callbacks pushing fulfillment and shipping updates back to the storefront. Synchronization accuracy reached 99.7% across all flows.
Akeneo PIM was integrated as the canonical product information source for 300k+ SKUs across electrical, automation, and energy product categories. Product attributes, technical specifications, certifications, images, documentation, and category structures were managed in Akeneo and synchronized into Salesforce B2B Commerce on a scheduled cadence with delta detection. SAP S/4HANA remained the source of pricing and inventory truth, while Akeneo provided enriched product context for digital discovery, advanced filtering, and procurement search.
Account-based pricing was implemented through deterministic synchronization of SAP S/4HANA contract data into Salesforce B2B Commerce price structures, with customer-specific catalogs, volume break tiers, SKU-level overrides, and contract precedence rules. Contract entitlements, payment terms, credit limits, and currency assignments were inherited from SAP customer master records and applied at the account-storefront level. Enterprise buyers saw consistent contract-specific pricing across browsing, quote, and checkout flows.
Quote-to-order workflows were implemented natively within the Salesforce ecosystem, allowing sales representatives and inside sales teams to generate quotes from Salesforce opportunities, apply contract pricing adjustments, route quotes through approval chains, and convert approved quotes directly into Salesforce B2B Commerce orders that synchronized to SAP S/4HANA. The workflow unified field sales activity, CRM intelligence, and digital order capture into a single quote-to-cash motion.
Following launch, Elogic Commerce transitioned into a long-term embedded engineering role covering platform enhancements, SAP S/4HANA integration evolution, Akeneo PIM optimization, account-based commerce expansion, and performance monitoring.
41%
increase in self-service order placement among enterprise procurement teams
Compressed
quote-to-order cycle time through Salesforce-native workflows integrated with ERP pricing
Increased
enterprise buyer engagement with digital self-service tools across account segments
39%
reduction in manual order processing through SAP S/4HANA order injection automation
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sales team capacity redirected from order entry toward account development and contract expansion
Eliminated
pricing discrepancies between commerce and ERP systems.
99.7%
real-time inventory accuracy between Salesforce B2B Commerce and SAP S/4HANA
Synchronized
contract pricing deterministically while respecting SAP precedence rules.
Reduced
order injection failures through middleware validation and idempotent retry logic
300k+
SKUs unified across Akeneo PIM and Salesforce B2B Commerce
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Salesforce account intelligence applied directly at the commerce layer for enterprise buyers
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Sales representatives operate within a unified quote-to-cash motion across CRM and commerce
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including account-based storefronts, customer-specific catalogs, role-based permissions, and procurement self-service tools
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with bidirectional synchronization of customers, contract pricing, inventory, and orders
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with queue management, idempotent retry, dead-letter handling, and reconciliation tooling
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as canonical product source feeding Salesforce B2B Commerce across 300k+ SKUs
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synchronizing SAP contract data into Salesforce B2B Commerce price structures
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integrated with Sales Cloud opportunities and SAP order injection
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leveraging Salesforce account intelligence at the transactional layer
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for long-term Salesforce B2B Commerce evolution and enterprise integration maintenance
This approach is ideal for companies that:
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Operate enterprise B2B commerce with negotiated contracts and account-specific pricing structures02
Rely on SAP S/4HANA as the system of record for pricing, inventory, contracts, and orders03
Have Salesforce established as the CRM platform with significant account and opportunity intelligence04
Manage large industrial or technical catalogs requiring PIM-driven product data enrichment05
Require account-based commerce with multi-buyer hierarchies, approval workflows, and contract precedence06
Need unified quote-to-cash motion connecting field sales, inside sales, and digital commerceIf your organization is building enterprise B2B commerce with Salesforce at the core, SAP S/4HANA or comparable ERP as the system of record, and Akeneo as the PIM, Elogic Commerce helps global distributors and manufacturers design CRM-native commerce architectures with deep ERP integration and account-based pricing logic.