Powerful Business Integration: Infor ERP & Shopify

Powerful Business Integration: Infor ERP & Shopify

Seamlessly Connect Any Infor ERP System with Your E-Commerce Platform

The Infor-Shopify integration delivers a robust connection between your Infor ERP system and your Shopify storefront, enabling automated data synchronization that eliminates manual processes and provides a unified view of your entire operation. This versatile integration works with all Infor ERP solutions—including LN, XA, VISUAL, SyteLine, and others—automatically transferring inventory, orders, customer data, and financial information between both platforms. This creates a streamlined workflow that improves efficiency, enhances accuracy, and provides real-time visibility into business performance across all channels. For businesses leveraging any Infor ERP solution, this integration forms the foundation of a scalable, competitive e-commerce operation.

Key Benefits of the Infor-Shopify Integration

In today's competitive digital marketplace, disconnected systems create inefficiencies that hamper growth and increase operational costs. The Infor-Shopify integration solves these challenges by establishing a reliable data pipeline between your ERP and customer-facing storefront, delivering significant operational advantages:

Universal Inventory Management

Maintain perfect inventory accuracy across all sales channels with bidirectional stock synchronization between any Infor ERP and Shopify. The integration automatically updates inventory levels in real-time as sales occur or stock is received, preventing overselling and providing customers with accurate availability information. Multi-location businesses benefit from site-specific inventory tracking that optimizes fulfillment and reduces shipping costs. The system works with your specific Infor ERP's inventory capabilities—whether basic or advanced—extending these features to your e-commerce operations while preserving your existing inventory management processes.

Streamlined Order Processing

Transform your order fulfillment workflow with end-to-end automation that eliminates bottlenecks. Orders placed on your Shopify store are instantly transmitted to your Infor ERP, complete with all customer information, shipping requirements, and payment details. This seamless transfer initiates your established fulfillment workflows within your ERP, reducing processing time by up to 75% while eliminating the errors associated with manual entry. The integration adapts to your specific Infor solution's order management capabilities and business rules, ensuring consistency across systems while maximizing efficiency.

Unified Customer Data

Create a comprehensive view of your customers by synchronizing profiles between your Infor ERP and Shopify. This integrated approach includes complete purchase history, contact information, shipping preferences, credit status, and account details from both systems. For businesses managing both B2B and B2C relationships, the integration maintains appropriate distinctions in pricing, payment terms, and fulfillment processes based on customer type. This unified customer view enables more personalized marketing, better-informed customer service, and deeper insights into buying patterns across all channels.

Financial Accuracy and Reporting

Maintain impeccable financial records with automated synchronization of order data, tax calculations, and payment information between Shopify and your Infor ERP. This seamless connection ensures your accounting is always up-to-date, simplifies period-end closing processes, and provides real-time visibility into financial performance. Sales transactions flow directly into your ERP financial modules using your established account structure and posting rules, maintaining the financial controls and reporting capabilities that your business relies on. Comprehensive financial reporting combines e-commerce performance with overall business metrics for complete visibility.

Adaptable Product Management

Ensure consistent product data across all channels with synchronized product information management. The integration transfers product details, images, pricing, variants, and availability between your Infor ERP and Shopify storefront, eliminating discrepancies between systems. Multiple price lists in your ERP can be mapped to different customer groups in Shopify, ensuring that each customer sees the appropriate pricing based on their relationship with your business. The system adapts to your specific Infor solution's product management capabilities, whether you're using Infor Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) or your ERP's native product management functionality.

How the Infor-Shopify Integration Works

Our integration leverages Infor's ION middleware and Shopify's API infrastructure to establish a secure, reliable data pipeline between systems. The architecture is designed for flexibility, reliability, and performance with any Infor ERP:

  1. Adaptable Data Mapping - Field mapping is configured to match your specific Infor implementation, ensuring that data is correctly formatted and structured as it moves between systems, with transformation rules that accommodate the different data models while preserving your existing configuration.
  2. Configurable Synchronization Framework - Define how often different data types should synchronize based on your business requirements and system load considerations, from real-time updates for critical information like inventory and orders to scheduled syncs for less time-sensitive data.
  3. Business Logic Preservation - Your established business rules, approval workflows, and accounting structures in your Infor ERP are respected and extended to your e-commerce operations, ensuring consistency across channels and maintaining your existing controls.
  4. Comprehensive Exception Management - Sophisticated error detection and handling protocols ensure that data integrity is maintained, with automated notifications that alert your team to issues requiring attention and detailed logging for troubleshooting.
  5. Scalable Architecture - The integration is built to handle growing transaction volumes and can scale as your business expands, accommodating increasing order volumes and expanding product catalogs without performance degradation.

Real-World Applications

Manufacturing Businesses

For manufacturers using Infor LN, XA, or SyteLine, the integration provides a seamless connection between production operations and e-commerce. The system can coordinate production scheduling with online sales, provide customers with accurate lead times based on current capacity, and automatically update order status as items move through production. This tight integration between manufacturing and e-commerce creates a more responsive, customer-focused production environment.

Distribution and Wholesale Operations

Businesses using Infor Distribution SX.e or FACTS benefit from the integration's ability to maintain appropriate distinctions between different customer types while providing unified inventory and financial management. Wholesale customers can access customer-specific pricing, order minimums, and fulfillment options, while retail customers enjoy a streamlined consumer experience, all connected to the same back-end Infor system.

Fashion and Retail Businesses

Companies in the fashion and retail industry using Infor M3 or CloudSuite Retail gain sophisticated handling of style-color-size matrix items, seasonality, collections, and other fashion-specific requirements. The system maintains appropriate inventory allocation across channels, supports pre-orders for new collections, and provides accurate availability information for each specific variant, creating a seamless shopping experience while maintaining inventory accuracy.

Service-Based Organizations

Businesses that combine product sales with services can maintain a cohesive view of customer relationships across both aspects of their business. Service history maintained in your Infor ERP can inform product recommendations in the Shopify store, while product purchases can trigger appropriate service scheduling or maintenance plans, creating a more holistic customer experience.

Implementation and Support

Our experienced integration specialists will guide you through a structured implementation process designed to leverage your existing Infor investment while extending its capabilities to e-commerce:

  1. Discovery and ERP Analysis - We begin by understanding your specific Infor ERP, its configuration, existing workflows, and growth objectives to design an integration strategy tailored to your business requirements and ERP environment.
  2. Configuration and Customization - Your integration is configured to match your established business processes, with custom field mappings and synchronization rules that reflect your operational needs and specific Infor ERP setup.
  3. Rigorous Testing - Comprehensive testing ensures that all data flows correctly and all business rules function as intended before going live, with particular attention to ERP-specific requirements and complex data scenarios.
  4. Team Training and Deployment - Thorough training prepares your team to manage the integrated system effectively, followed by a carefully planned deployment that ensures business continuity throughout the transition.
  5. Ongoing Support and Optimization - Our support team remains available to address any questions or issues, while regular reviews identify opportunities to further optimize your integration as your business evolves.

Transform Your E-Commerce Operations Today

Ready to eliminate the inefficiencies of disconnected systems while leveraging your trusted Infor ERP environment? The Infor-Shopify integration provides the seamless connection you need to optimize operations, improve customer experiences, and accelerate online growth. Contact our integration specialists today for a personalized demonstration and discover how quickly you can begin realizing the benefits of this powerful solution, regardless of which Infor ERP system you use.

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