sales org determination from product catalog

[Former Member]

Let's assume we have 2 sales areas required in CRM: sales org/distribution channel = 1000/10 and 1000/30, they need to share the same product catalog but have some personlized views for different customers.

Therefore, for the product catalog, I intend to maintain 2 variants distinguished by different distribution channel, and maintain some views specific to different customers.

In web shop, I flag the "catalog search (b2b internet sales)" option, but I wonder how is the catalog determined?if the catalog can be determined by choose one from list, how is the catalog variant determined by the logon internt user, i.e. how to determine the sales area by known BP(from internet user), as 2 sales area may be both assigned to the same BP?

If I unflag the "catalog search (b2b internet sales)" option, only 1 catalog variant can be set, does it mean I

have to create different web shops to assign different catalog variant for my scenario?

Patrick

[Former Member]

Hi Patrick,

Sales Organisation are covered by the variants.

You have to define several views. The views relates subsets of the catalog ( areas and items) to BP. You are free to relate views to BP list or you could also use target groups, which you could define with segmentbuilder.

To identify what a customer will see, the standard will collect every view the Contact person and the Business Partner is related to.

Variants from all cataloges, to which the user is related via the views, will be filtered according to Language and maintaned Sales Organisation for the both Business Partner.

If there are more than one Catalog-Variants is shown to the Shop user by the so called SelectCatalog.jsp.

Correctly spoken it is a variant selection (and so the sales Org is determined), and since exactly one catalog is related to a variant, they call it catalog selection.

The union of all catalogobjects ( areas and items) which are related to that identified views will be presented to the customer ....

Hope this helps.

Regards

Chris.