In Part 1, we explored the foundational concepts of Punchout and the OCI and cXML standards used in electronic procurement. Now, in Part 2, we move beyond theory and into practice, focusing on how these Punchout protocols are implemented within SAP Commerce (formerly Hybris). Through detailed examples and step-by-step demonstrations, we will look at both OCI and cXML Punchout capabilities, how to set them up in the B2B Accelerator, and explore the related features in SAP Commerce and Spartacus ..read more

This article is brought by Robert Bull, Lead Solution Architect Introduction Punchout is an electronic procurement process used in B2B scenarios. The typical process involves a purchaser’s system accessing a supplier’s product catalog to allow the purchaser to build up a ..read more

This article is intended for you, dear clients, both current and future. Whether you’re looking to build a new application, enhance an existing system, or integrate complex technologies, crafting an RFP that developers will love involves more than just listing technical specifications. It’s about creating a document that not only conveys your project’s vision but also fosters collaboration, innovation, and a mutual understanding of expectations. In this guide, I will explore key strategies to help you write an RFP that attracts high-quality proposals and sets the stage for a successful partner ..read more

This article is intended for you, dear clients, both current and future. Whether you’re looking to build a new application, enhance an existing system, or integrate complex technologies, crafting an RFP that developers will love involves more than just listing ..read more

Like many of you, I closely follow the progress in AI and LLMs, particularly in the quest for AGI, observing the successes of various startups working in this field. In this slightly philosophical article, I will share some thoughts on the subject. Basics I think that anyone who understands the principles of LLMs can simultaneously claim to understand how these algorithms work and, at the same time, not understand fully how the entire system works. This is because 1) part of the algorithm is essentially dynamic, determined by the weights that constitute the essence of the model, and 2) the com ..read more

In one of my projects, it was crucial for me to monitor data volumes and some specific e-commerce system parameters and alert the technical team if there were any abrupt or unexpected changes in them. These fluctuations occasionally (though not always) signaled potential existing issues or an increased likelihood of future problems. I am focusing on operational parameters (orders, shopping carts, customers, logins, product data quality), not technical (page load time, timeouts). Due to the lack of built-in solutions in SAP Commerce for this function, I had to design and implement a custom solu ..read more

This is a deeply technical article, complete with snippets of code, machine learning, algorithms, and all that jazz. We’ll get to that in a minute, but first, let’s start with a bit of “lyrical” introduction. It all started with Norman Rockwell. I’m generally into painting and try to dabble a bit myself, but in my tastes, I am very conservative, even old school, you might say. Shortly before that day, a friend and I were reminiscing about famous American illustrators, and I became engrossed in a collection of Rockwell illustrations in the Saturday Evening Post magazine. They were extraordinari ..read more

Last night, a spark of inspiration on my evening drive turned into a monumental achievement by the early hours: I successfully migrated 6,000 posts from Facebook to my brand-new WordPress blog and later translated them to English and published at RaufAliev.com. So now I have two blogs, in Russian and English, having the same content as my Facebook (I don’t post anything on Facebook that isn’t meant for others to see, and I don’t write or say anything that I wouldn’t say publicly, so from a privacy perspective, everything is okay. Also, I don’t transfer comments to the posts, only the posts the ..read more

For large B2C and B2B marketplaces, searching for individual products, especially when the information comes from independent suppliers, is a very challenging task. Marketplaces cannot always influence what comes from suppliers, and when they can, it is quite expensive to do so with large volumes of products, and such costs are not always justified. However, if the search function is poor, it is typically associated with the marketplace, not with the suppliers’ inadequate product descriptions. The typical hierarchy of a product catalog contains two district groups: categories and products, wh ..read more

Almost seven years ago, I contemplated the future interface for human-computer interaction. Rather than confining the possibilities to a single mode, such as voice or a combination of keyboard and screen, I pondered the integration of multiple inputs. Imagine typing text and speaking simultaneously, prompting the system to adjust its responses based on what it hears—or perhaps even sees. Now, in 2024, with the advancement of multimodal large language models (LLMs), this concept has been revitalized. A particular focus on audio interfaces by Humane AI Pin has received mixed feedback, highlighti ..read more