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Ecommerce · ERP Integration

Portal ERP Integration

Keep portal and ERP records synchronized under clear ownership. Manufacturing customers and dealers expect current pricing, inventory, order, invoice, and shipment information. We engineer the required ERP exchange using the appropriate real-time or scheduled pattern, with validation, recovery, monitoring, and exception ownership.

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The Problem

The portal and ERP disagree about the records customers use to place and manage orders.

Integration problems begin when systems exchange fields without agreement about the operating record, timing, ownership, validation, recovery, and exception response.

01

What leaders see

People reconcile the same records repeatedly.

Orders, inventory, production, quality, and shipment status move through exports, re-entry, calls, and side files.

02

What is actually happening

The handoff has no governed contract.

Identifiers, source ownership, timing, validation, monitoring, and recovery differ across systems and organizations.

03

What gets worse

More connections create more uncertainty.

Point-to-point fixes multiply while failures become harder to detect, explain, assign, and recover.

02

What Changes

What Portal ERP Integration includes.

Manufacturing customers and dealers expect current pricing, inventory, order, invoice, and shipment information. We engineer the required ERP exchange using the appropriate real-time or scheduled pattern, with validation, recovery, monitoring, and exception ownership.

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Real-Time Order Sync

Orders submitted in the portal create sales orders in the ERP within seconds. Order acknowledgment, status updates, and tracking flow back to the portal automatically.

02

Live Pricing Integration

Customer-specific pricing pulled from ERP pricing tables in real time. No cached price lists, no overnight batch updates, no pricing discrepancies.

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Inventory Synchronization

ATP quantities refreshed from ERP/WMS in real time. Dealers see current availability, not yesterday's snapshot.

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Customer Data Sync

Customer accounts, addresses, contacts, and credit information synchronized between portal and ERP. Single source of truth, no data entry duplication.

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Invoice & Payment Sync

Invoices, credit memos, and payment status from ERP available in the portal. Payments made through the portal post to ERP accounts receivable automatically.

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Error Handling & Monitoring

Comprehensive error handling for failed transactions, timeout recovery, and data validation. Integration dashboard with real-time health monitoring.

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How It Fits Your Operations

How Portal ERP Integration fits your operation.

Integration EngineeringWhich records must move, which system owns them, how current they must be, and what happens when exchange fails.
Governance dependencyEach interface needs an accountable source, defined identifiers, validation, recovery, monitoring, and ownership before teams can trust the exchange.
Records and handoffs to connect
orders
inventory and materials
production status
quality records
shipments and exceptions

What must be defined before engineering begins

  • What the business needs to change and why.
  • Which systems, records, risks, and readiness gaps shape the work.
  • What should be built, how it fits the architecture, and in what order.

Related Services and Planning

What the operating problem may require next.

Follow the dependencies behind this service instead of treating it as an isolated project.

Start With the Operating Problem

Define the smallest sound response and delivery sequence.

Metrotechs determines what the operation actually requires before selecting technology. When a structured assessment is warranted, Launchpad turns evidence into priorities, risks, architecture, and an implementation Roadmap.

Metrotechs designs, builds, integrates, and supports the approved solution.
Launchpad is available when the engagement needs assessment evidence, a Roadmap, and ongoing delivery governance.

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Delivery sequence

How Metrotechs delivers Portal ERP Integration.

Manufacturing customers and dealers expect current pricing, inventory, order, invoice, and shipment information. We engineer the required ERP exchange using the appropriate.

01

Integration Assessment

Assess your ERP's integration capabilities -- APIs, web services, middleware, database access. Identify the optimal integration method for each data flow.

02

Data Contract Design

Define data contracts for each integration point -- fields, formats, validation rules, and error handling. Agree on the source of truth for each data element.

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Integration Development

Build integration middleware with logging, error handling, retry logic, and monitoring. Test with real ERP data in a sandbox environment.

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End-to-End Testing

Test complete business scenarios -- place order in portal, verify in ERP, ship in WMS, verify tracking in portal. Cover happy paths and error scenarios.

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Production Deployment

Deploy integration to production with monitoring dashboards. 24-hour hypercare period to resolve any production-specific issues.

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FAQ

Questions that usually decide the scope.

Straight answers to what operators ask before committing budget to this work.

ERP is our primary integration target -- the portal is built to connect with ERP's API natively. For operators on legacy ERPs, we build Python-based integration bridges. If it has an API or a database, we can connect to it.