PunchOut Integration Solutions for B2B Procurement
Deliver your PunchOut integration with the team at OSE. Integrate your eCommerce solution with a supplier and customer ERP.
Achieving a successful PunchOut integration
When delivering an PunchOut integration between an ERP and your commerce platform, it’s important to take the time to understand all of the business requirements.
At OSE, we’re committed to ensuring your Punchout integration is handled properly, and take the time to meet with and identify all relevant stakeholders on the customer’s side to ensure we’re all working together and heading in the right direction.
We’ve found communication to be the most important element when delivering PunchOut Catalogue solutions, and make every effort to ensure all parties are regularly updating each other with their progress.
Expertise working with cXML and OCI formats
OSE delivers seamless PunchOut integrations to connect your eCommerce store with corporate procurement systems with expertise in both cXML and OCI data formats.
Our integrations streamline ordering, approvals, and invoicing, giving B2B customers a frictionless way to transact directly from their procurement platforms.
Collaborating with Third-Parties
At OSE, we understand the importance of successfully collaborating with third-parties when delivering PunchOut projects.
Our team has extensive experience working alongside both software vendors and client customers to ensure smooth deployment, data accuracy, and alignment with your requirements.
Our team pride ourselves on engaging with your business providers and customers at the highest level, and know what it takes to deliver PunchOut integration services.
Frequently Asked Questions
For businesses who undertake online transactions at scale, ensuring that efficient approvals and reconciliations are in place for business purchases is a must. With this in mind, PunchOut solutions are an excellent way to drive efficiency between a customer and supplier, whilst delivering improved customer experience.
PunchOut integrations allow deep connectivity between a supplier’s commerce platform and the customer’s ERP. This setup is extremely powerful as it allows for businesses of any size to operate under the terms of pre-negotiated business agreements, with or without approval of purchases, whilst attaching purchase orders to a supplier upon approval of a transaction.
Common ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solutions such as SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, MYOB, Pronto, Netsuite, Cin7 and Dear Systems all support PunchOut, working side-by-side with all the common eCommerce platforms you know and love.
However, each ERP supports a different data transfer mechanism. This may include cXML (Commerce XML) or OCI (Open Catalog Interface), which each have different capabilities offering businesses increased or decreased transactional flexibility.
Yes. Punchout is one of the most secure methods of transacting online due to the high level of traceability associated with PunchOut. With PunchOut generally only made available to staff members of a given organisation who will have already been subject to meeting a number of corporate requirements to access a given system, combined with comprehensive testing and systems approval, Punchout is a very secure method of transacting online.