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Unify Your Commerce: Seamless SAP S/4HANA and Clarity eCommerce Integration

Automate order-to-cash, synchronize inventory in real-time, and deliver exceptional customer experiences with a powerful, iPaaS-driven integration.

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The Challenge

The Disconnect Between eCommerce Agility and ERP Precision

In today's fast-paced digital economy, businesses often struggle to bridge the gap between their customer-facing Clarity eCommerce platform and the robust, back-office capabilities of SAP S/4HANA. This disconnect leads to inefficiencies, costly errors, and a fragmented customer experience.

  • Manual data entry for orders, customers, and products leads to delays and inaccuracies.
  • Inaccurate inventory levels result in oversells, stockouts, and customer dissatisfaction.
  • Delayed financial reconciliation causes bottlenecks in reporting and cash flow management.
  • Lack of a unified customer view hinders personalized marketing and service efforts.
  • Complex, point-to-point integrations are brittle, expensive to maintain, and difficult to scale.
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The Solution

Intelligent Integration for SAP S/4HANA and Clarity eCommerce

Our iPaaS-driven solution provides a flexible, scalable, and secure bridge between SAP S/4HANA and Clarity eCommerce. By leveraging an API-first, event-driven architecture, we automate critical workflows, harmonize data, and provide real-time visibility, transforming your digital commerce operations.

  • Real-time bi-directional data synchronization
  • Pre-built connectors for SAP S/4HANA and Clarity eCommerce
  • Visual, low-code workflow designer
  • Advanced data mapping and transformation engine
  • Robust error handling and monitoring
Implementation Timeline

Go live with SAP S/4HANA + Clarity eCommerce in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both SAP S/4HANA and Clarity eCommerce, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most SAP S/4HANA + Clarity eCommerce deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Comprehensive Solution Details

  • Real-time bi-directional data synchronization
  • Pre-built connectors for SAP S/4HANA and Clarity eCommerce
  • Visual, low-code workflow designer
  • Advanced data mapping and transformation engine
  • Robust error handling and monitoring
  • AI-assisted integration capabilities
  • Scalable, cloud-native architecture

Technical Integration Overview: Bridging Clarity eCommerce and SAP S/4HANA

Our integration leverages a modern iPaaS to provide an API-first, event-driven architecture, ensuring robust, scalable, and secure data exchange between Clarity eCommerce and SAP S/4HANA. This approach minimizes latency and maximizes data consistency.

Data Flow Steps

Establish Secure Connectivity: Configure dedicated connectors for SAP S/4HANA (using OAuth 2.0/Client Certificates for cloud, or secure tunnels for on-premise) and Clarity eCommerce (OAuth 2.0 with client credentials).

Define Event Triggers: Subscribe to Clarity eCommerce webhooks (e.g., `order.created`, `product.updated`, `customer.updated`) and configure SAP S/4HANA outbound events (e.g., via SAP Event Mesh for inventory changes, sales order status updates).

Design Data Flows: Visually construct integration flows in the iPaaS, specifying the sequence of operations, conditional logic, and error handling.

Implement Data Mapping & Transformation: Utilize the iPaaS's visual mapping canvas to transform data structures and values between Clarity eCommerce's JSON/XML formats and SAP S/4HANA's OData/XML schemas. Apply business rules for data enrichment and validation.

Orchestrate API Calls: Sequence API calls to both systems, ensuring transactional integrity (e.g., creating Business Partner before Sales Order). Leverage batch processing for efficiency where supported by S/4HANA OData.

Deploy & Monitor: Promote integration flows through Dev, QA, and Production environments using CI/CD pipelines. Monitor performance, errors, and data volumes via centralized dashboards.

Data Touchpoints

Clarity Orders <-> SAP S/4HANA Sales Orders
Clarity Products <-> SAP S/4HANA Materials
Clarity Customers <-> SAP S/4HANA Business Partners (Customer Role)
Clarity Inventory <-> SAP S/4HANA Product Stock
Clarity Payment Transactions <-> SAP S/4HANA Payments/Journal Entries
Clarity Shipments <-> SAP S/4HANA Outbound Deliveries

"Clarity eCommerce (Order/Customer/Product/Inventory Update) -> Webhook/API Call -> iPaaS (Data Mapping, Transformation, Validation, Orchestration) -> SAP S/4HANA (Sales Order/Business Partner/Material/Inventory Update) -> Event/API Call -> iPaaS (Status Update/Fulfillment/Financial Posting) -> Clarity eCommerce (Order Status/Shipment Tracking/Customer Update)"

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for SAP S/4HANA + Clarity eCommerce.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
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Innovative & Robust

How Middleware Integration Works

Benefits of Integrating SAP S/4HANA

Integrating SAP S/4HANA fosters greater efficiency and data accuracy. Automate your critical business processes to deliver consistently outstanding results.

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Data Mapping

Key Data Entities & Field-Level Mappings

Effective integration relies on precise mapping of core business entities between Clarity eCommerce and SAP S/4HANA. Our iPaaS provides a visual mapping canvas and AI assistance to streamline this complex process.

Order / Sales Order

Synchronization of customer purchases from Clarity eCommerce to SAP S/4HANA for fulfillment and financial processing.

SAP S/4HANA Fields

SalesOrder SalesOrderType SoldToParty (BP ID) ShipToParty (BP ID) PurchaseOrderByCustomer OverallSDStatus CreationDate SalesOrderItem Material RequestedQuantity NetAmount Currency

Clarity eCommerce Fields

orderId customerId orderDate status totalAmount currency shippingAddress billingAddress lineItems paymentInfo

Mapping Notes

Clarity's `orderId` maps to S/4HANA's `PurchaseOrderByCustomer`. Clarity `customerId` maps to S/4HANA `SoldToParty` (Business Partner ID). Clarity `lineItems` map to S/4HANA `SalesOrderItem` including `Material` and `RequestedQuantity`. Shipping and billing addresses require careful parsing and mapping to S/4HANA address structures.

Next Steps

See SAP S/4HANA + Clarity eCommerce integration in action.

Explore a guided demo, start a sandbox integration, or speak directly with our solution architects about your specific use cases.

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Real-World Applications

Integration Use Cases

Explore how the integration behaves in real business scenarios, with clearly defined steps, outcomes, and execution patterns.

Real-time Order-to-Cash Automation

Automate the entire order lifecycle from Clarity eCommerce checkout to SAP S/4HANA sales order creation, fulfillment, and financial posting.

Integration Steps:

  1. 0 Customer places an order on Clarity eCommerce.
  2. 1 Clarity eCommerce webhook triggers iPaaS to capture new order.
  3. 2 iPaaS maps Clarity Order data to SAP S/4HANA Sales Order schema.
  4. 3 iPaaS creates a Sales Order in SAP S/4HANA via API (e.g., `/APISALESORDER_SRV/SalesOrder`).
  5. 4 SAP S/4HANA initiates fulfillment process.
  6. 5 Fulfillment status updates from SAP S/4HANA are pushed back to Clarity eCommerce via iPaaS.
  7. 6 Payment transactions are reconciled and posted to SAP S/4HANA General Ledger.

Business Outcome

Faster order processing, reduced manual errors, accelerated revenue recognition, and improved customer satisfaction with timely order updates.

Frequency

Real-time (event-driven)

Business Value

Key Integration Benefits

Discover the strategic advantages and business value of seamless integration between your systems.

Accelerated Order-to-Cash Cycle
Automate the entire order journey from Clarity eCommerce checkout to SAP S/4HANA sales order creation, fulfillment, and financial posting.
Real-time Inventory Accuracy
Synchronize inventory levels bi-directionally between SAP S/4HANA and Clarity eCommerce to prevent oversells and undersells.
Enhanced Customer Experience
Provide customers with accurate product information, real-time order status updates, and personalized interactions through unified data.
Reduced Operational Costs
Eliminate manual data entry, reduce errors, and streamline processes across sales, operations, and finance teams.
Unified Data & Reporting
Establish a single source of truth for customer, product, and financial data, enabling accurate reporting and strategic decision-making.
Scalability & Future-Proofing
Build a flexible integration foundation that can easily adapt to growth, new sales channels, and evolving business requirements.
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Accelerated Order-to-Cash Cycle

30% Faster order processing

📋 What You Get

Automate the entire order journey from Clarity eCommerce checkout to SAP S/4HANA sales order creation, fulfillment, and financial posting.

💼 Business Impact

This benefit directly contributes to 30% improvement in Faster order processing, enabling your team to focus on high-value strategic initiatives.

Technical Documentation

API Endpoints & Data Logic

Technical details for developers and architects.

Method Endpoint Purpose
POST, GET, PATCH /sap/opu/odata/sap/APISALESORDER_SRV/SalesOrder Create new sales orders from Clarity, retrieve order status, or update existing orders. Essential for order-to-cash automation.
POST, GET, PATCH /sap/opu/odata/sap/APIBUSINESSPARTNER/A_BusinessPartner Manage customer master data (Business Partners) created or updated in Clarity eCommerce. Supports creation and updates of BP roles like FLCU00 (Customer).
POST, GET, PATCH /sap/opu/odata/sap/APIPRODUCTSRV/A_Product Synchronize product master data (materials, descriptions, attributes) from S/4HANA to Clarity eCommerce. Can also be used for updates from Clarity to S/4HANA if S/4HANA is not the sole source of truth.
GET /sap/opu/odata/sap/APIPRODUCTSTOCKSRV/AProductStock Retrieve real-time inventory levels from S/4HANA for specific materials and plants to update Clarity eCommerce stock availability.
POST /sap/opu/odata/sap/APIJOURNALENTRYSRV/JournalEntry Post financial journal entries, particularly for payment reconciliation, from Clarity eCommerce into the S/4HANA General Ledger.

⚡ Transformation Logic

  • Unit Conversion: Convert Clarity eCommerce weight/dimension units to SAP S/4HANA's base units of measure.
  • Address Harmonization: Standardize address formats from Clarity to S/4HANA, potentially leveraging external address validation services.
  • Status Mapping: Translate Clarity order/payment statuses (e.g., 'Processing', 'Fulfilled') to corresponding SAP S/4HANA status codes (e.g., 'A', 'C').
  • Pricing Conditions: Apply complex pricing logic, discounts, and taxes from Clarity to SAP S/4HANA sales order pricing conditions.
  • Customer Deduplication: Implement logic to check for existing Business Partners in S/4HANA based on email or external ID before creating new ones.
  • Material Mapping: Map Clarity SKUs to SAP S/4HANA Material IDs, handling potential variations or custom product identifiers.

🛡️ Error Handling

  • API rate limit exceeded (handled by throttling and retries).
  • Invalid data format or missing mandatory fields (routed to DLQ, alerts).
  • SAP S/4HANA Business Partner or Material not found (human intervention workflow).
  • Network connectivity issues (automatic retries with back-off).
  • Transaction rollback due to upstream system failure (iPaaS ensures atomicity where possible).
Support & Information

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about integration implementation, security, and best practices.

General FAQs

▸ What is the primary benefit of integrating SAP S/4HANA with Clarity eCommerce?
Integrating SAP S/4HANA with Clarity eCommerce provides real-time, bi-directional data flow for critical business processes like order-to-cash, inventory management, and customer data synchronization. This eliminates manual data entry, reduces errors, accelerates fulfillment, and delivers a consistent customer experience across all touchpoints, all orchestrated by a scalable iPaaS.

Technical FAQs

▸ How does an iPaaS facilitate seamless data flow between SAP S/4HANA and Clarity eCommerce?
An iPaaS acts as the central hub, connecting SAP S/4HANA's robust APIs (OData) and event capabilities (SAP Event Mesh) with Clarity eCommerce's RESTful APIs and webhooks. It provides visual, low-code tools for data mapping, transformation, and workflow orchestration, ensuring data consistency and integrity while automating complex business processes end-to-end. It also handles error management, retries, and monitoring.

Data FAQs

▸ What are the key entities synchronized between SAP S/4HANA and Clarity eCommerce?
Core entities typically synchronized include: Clarity Orders to SAP S/4HANA Sales Orders, Clarity Products to SAP S/4HANA Materials, Clarity Customer profiles to SAP S/4HANA Business Partners (Customer role), and bi-directional synchronization of Inventory levels. Payment transactions, invoices, and shipment updates are also crucial for a complete order-to-cash cycle.

Customization FAQs

▸ Can I customize the integration workflows without extensive coding?
Yes, leveraging a modern iPaaS with low-code/no-code capabilities allows business users and citizen integrators to customize and extend integration workflows. You can visually design data transformations, define conditional logic, and configure business rules specific to your operations without writing complex code, significantly speeding up development and adaptation.

AI FAQs

▸ How does AI enhance the SAP S/4HANA and Clarity eCommerce integration?
AI capabilities within the iPaaS can automate data mapping suggestions, validate data against inferred business rules, detect anomalies in order or financial data (e.g., potential fraud), and intelligently route exceptions for resolution. This reduces manual effort, improves data quality, and provides proactive insights, making the integration more intelligent and resilient.

Security FAQs

▸ What security measures are in place for this integration?
Security is paramount. The integration employs robust authentication (OAuth 2.0, client certificates) and authorization (least privilege principle) for API access. All data in transit is secured with TLS/SSL encryption. Sensitive data like payment information is tokenized and PII is masked in logs. Comprehensive audit trails, data retention policies, and compliance with regulations like GDPR/CCPA are also enforced within the iPaaS.

Monitoring FAQs

▸ How do I monitor the health and performance of my SAP S/4HANA and Clarity eCommerce integrations?
Modern iPaaS platforms offer comprehensive monitoring dashboards and alerting capabilities. You can track transaction volumes, latency, error rates, and system availability across all your integrations. Configurable alerts notify IT teams of critical failures or performance degradations in real-time, enabling proactive issue resolution and ensuring operational continuity.

Lifecycle Management FAQs

▸ What is the typical workflow for promoting integrations from development to production?
The typical workflow involves a disciplined CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) pipeline. Integrations are developed in a Dev environment, thoroughly tested in a QA/Staging environment (including unit, integration, and regression tests), and then promoted to Production. The iPaaS supports version control, automated deployment, and environment-specific configuration management to ensure a smooth, governed, and repeatable promotion process.
Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for SAP S/4HANA + Clarity eCommerce.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$599 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
View full pricing & options
Next Steps

See SAP S/4HANA + Clarity eCommerce integration in action.

Explore a guided demo, start a sandbox integration, or speak directly with our solution architects about your specific use cases.

Start Free Trial Request Live Demo