Two thousand SKUs from the ERP became three hundred products a customer understands
- Industry
- Professional stone-working tools
- Location
- Split, Croatia
- ERP
- The client's ERP, alongside the existing item importer
- Duration
- 3 months, then 11 versions of the grouping
The brief
Over two thousand SKUs in the ERP, most of them the same product in a different grit or diameter. The customer needed to see three hundred products and pick an option in each with one click, while the ERP keeps working with its own codes and the existing item import from the ERP stays untouched. On top of that, cards alongside cash on delivery, Croatian invoicing and a catalogue for customers from Italy, Germany and Slovenia.
How we solved it
SKUs from the ERP are grouped into one product by a rule we worked out with the people who sell, and the customer picks grit or diameter by clicking a chip instead of a dropdown. The system takes the exact SKU in the background, so the order goes back into the ERP the way the accounts expect it. The existing ERP import was left alone: our layer hooks onto it and the grouping survives every sync. We added cards alongside cash on delivery, Croatian invoicing, fiscalization and a catalogue in five languages, and eleven international brands got their wall on the homepage.
Numbers from the project
If you need something similar
- Timeline for a similar scope
- 3 to 6 weeks
Depends mostly on the state of the codes and variants in the ERP. What the base includes and what is added as needed is on the pricing page.
The price is set by your specific requirements. The real price is defined after a conversation and the technical documentation of the project, before you pay anything.
What the client had to prepare
- An item export from the ERP and the rule by which variants group
- Product photos at sufficient resolution
- An account with a card payment provider
- Someone who knows which disc goes with which machine
What is built in
- Grouping survives every sync from the ERP, so products do not fall apart back into SKUs.
- The order carries the ERP code, not the webshop name.
- Cards, cash on delivery, Croatian invoicing and fiscalization in the same checkout.
- The owner adds a new brand or product on their own.
What we would tell you before you start
- How to group variants is a business decision. Make it with someone who sells, not with a programmer.
- If a third-party program already imports items from your ERP, do not let anyone replace it. Working beside it is cheaper.
- Five languages only make sense if someone maintains the descriptions. Otherwise two are enough.
