Introduction

Assume your current solution is based on Hybris B2C accelerator. However some level of B2B incorporation can be necessary for following reasons.

• Adjustments are needed for an eventual upcoming B2B releases
• Customer model needs to realign with SAP foundational structure, and ideally use
  • B2Bunit for customer accounts
  • B2B customer type for B2B contacts
  • Address type for shipto and billto partner functions
  • Further details on how customer data is mapped between SAP ERP and hybris
• Many relevant services for B2B should be leveraged
  • Related to  B2B types
  • or simply Related to B2B commerce functionality (see B2B features)

Technical Strategy

• Since 5.7 B2B is now just an addon for the accelerator storefront so from a code standpoint there shouldn’t be an issue
• b2c_b2b_acc recipe that allows for both accelerators setup / https://help.hybris.com/6.0.0/hcd/f09d46cf4a2546b586ed7021655e4715.html
• Current decision (first try at east) is to go with an addon approach (ant addoninstall).
  • See Installing all the B2B Accelerator AddOns
    • Examples (tested locally)
      • ant addonuninstall -Daddonnames=”b2bacceleratoraddon” -DaddonStorefront.yacceleratorstorefront=“whrstorefront”
      • ant addoninstall -Daddonnames=”commerceorgaddon” -DaddonStorefront.yacceleratorstorefront=”whrstorefront”
  • Scalability – think about separate storefront extensions if needed to separate b2c and b2b addon installations
• To ensure the new module is working, initialize the system and start the hybris server.

Impact Considerations

• • Lot of the services for B2B revolve around B2BCustomer and their user rights.
  • Four main groups for customer rights
    • B2BAdminGroup
    • B2BManagerGroup
    • B2BApproverGroup
    • B2BCustomerGroup
      
      

    

  • For the B2C and B2B configurations, there is the case of not wanting a user to access the B2B web application while using the B2C site. To handle this, the spring-filter-content.xml file of yacceleratorstorefront defines a new acceleratorSiteChannels that only support B2C. This is then injected into CmsSiteFilter, which throws a 500 Error if the user attempts to access the wrong site. The b2bacceleratoraddonAddOn then overrides this acceleratorSiteChannels in its b2bacceleratoraddon-web-spring.xml to only support B2B. Since running the two sites on the same server requires an ext-gen, these are two separate web applications and these configurations will not clash with each other.

Steps to install the B2B extensions and addons

Note: the SAP hybris version used for this was 6.0, and 6.2 (specifically steps 5 and 6 for 6.2).

1. Copy the b2bacceleratoraddon from hybris/bin/ext-addon to extensions folder
2. Add below to the localextensions.xml

   <extension name="b2bacceleratorfacades"/> <extension name="acceleratorstorefrontcommons"/> <extension name="powertoolsstore"/> <extension dir="${HYBRIS_BIN_DIR}/../../extensions/b2bacceleratoraddon"/>

    

3.  Change the  <ref bean=”SiteChannel.B2C”/> in the  b2bacceleratoraddon-web-spring.xml, see below.

   <alias name="b2bAcceleratorSiteChannels" alias="acceleratorSiteChannels"/>    <util:set id="b2bAcceleratorSiteChannels" value-type="de.hybris.platform.commerceservices.enums.SiteChannel">         <ref bean="SiteChannel.B2B"/>         <ref bean="SiteChannel.B2C"/>     </util:set>

    

4.  Do the change in the b2bacceleratoraddon-spring-security-config.xmlChange below

   <security:authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager">    <security:authentication-provider ref="B2BAcceleratorAuthenticationProvider" /> </security:authentication-manager>

   to

   <security:authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager">         <security:authentication-provider ref="acceleratorAuthenticationProvider"/>     </security:authentication-manager>

    

5. Delete SummaryCheckoutStepController.java from b2bacceleratoraddon\acceleratoraddon\web\src\de\hybris\platform\b2bacceleratoraddon\controllers\pages\checkout\steps folder.
6. Remove from b2bacceleratoraddon\resources\b2bacceleratoraddon\web\spring\b2bacceleratoraddon-web-spring.xml

   <bean name="summaryCheckoutStepController"  class="de.hybris.platform.b2bacceleratoraddon.controllers.pages.checkout .steps.SummaryCheckoutStepController"/>

    

7. Run the command to install the b2bacceleratoraddon

   ant addoninstall -Daddonnames="b2bacceleratoraddon" -DaddonStorefront.yacceleratorstorefront="(custom)storefront"