I did the following:

1. Prepared a part assortment
2. Connected a sales inventory and non-inventory sales part
3. B2B customer
4. Connected the B2B customer to the assortment
5. Connected a user to the B2B customer
6. Checked the portal: no products to see
7. Purchased the inventory part
8. Received the quantity purchased in stock
9. Checked the portal: no products to see

Any idea how to link the parts to the portal so they can be selected?

Regards,

Steve

did you @eqbstal get any answer to this question? I’m trying to find out how B2B products / parts and their visibility is managed in IFS Cloud?

@AveTonitM No, also no PM or something along that line. We are working for a customer with IFS24R1 in test environment. Think, need to find some time, that I will test the scenario again and let you know (there is no real requirement of the customer at this moment).

@AveTonitM Pushed some time in the setup in a 24R1 environment. Now I don't even see the assortment coming back in the B2B portal when logged in as the B2B user. Maybe out of security reasons. When logged in I only see:

Order management leads to a lobby page. For now I don't have time to push into this.

While testing I noticed that the B2B portal ‘products’ page show only parts that exist on the site which is set as the user ‘default site’. Parts that exists on other sites (that the user has rights for) are filtered. I’m not using assortments when I found out this special filtering

@AveTonitM Pushed some time in the setup in a 24R1 environment. Now I don't even see the assortment coming back in the B2B portal when logged in as the B2B user. Maybe out of security reasons. When logged in I only see:

Order management leads to a lobby page. For now I don't have time to push into this.

I got the sales parts visible as “products” for the B2B portal customer user. One needs to define a assortment, connect sales parts to it and activate the assortment.

Then in “Storefront Manager” page I connected the assortment to the customer. One has the option to limit the B2B offering to include only the defined assortments

After this the B2B user can see the assortment sales parts in the B2B portal “products” page. Assortments are translated to Product Categories

View Products

View product information is an important feature provided for B2B customer in order to make awareness of the products that are being offered for sales. The information is presented in various ways such as in list view, card view and in a detailed page. The B2B customer can mark parts as favorites and view them separately.

In order to display products for B2B customer there are several conditions to be met as follows.

• Only sales parts connected to B2B user’s default site are presented.
• Only active parts are presented.
• Rental parts are excluded.
• Service parts are excluded (i.e. Non-Inventory Sales Parts, field Category has the value Service)
• If there are any limitations regarding which parts the B2B Customer should be able to order,( i.e. Limit Sales to Assortment option enabled in Customer/Sales/Assortment tab, then only parts connected to such assortments will be presented.

Note:

• If there is any image connected to the Sales Part via functionality of media library, then it will be displayed in the product pages.

Definition of Part Type and Available Qty

There are two fields in the B2B product pages that need more explanation since the definition differs from related fields in standard IFS Cloud. The fields are as follows.

• Part Type
• Available Qty

If the product is defined as a configurable part (Configurable option is set in Sales Part/General tab), the part type will be displayed as Configurable.

If the product is as Package Part (entered in Package Part page), part type will be displayed as Package.

If the product is a non-inventory product (entered in Non-Inventory Sales Part page), part type will be displayed as Non-Stock Item.

If the product is an inventory Sales Part, the two pictures below illustrate the steps in order to define if the part type will be Stock Item or Non-Stock Item.

For parts categorized as Stock-Item, Available Qty will be calculated as CO Plannable at current date for demand site or supply site, depending of the sourcing. For parts categorized as Configurable, Package or Non-Stock Item no availability calculation will be performed.