Microsoft Commerce Server and Microsoft Dynamics GP

Question

I have been searching around the MCS product feature documents, product documentation, and the MSC forums and have found nothing explaining how the connection between MSC and GP works. Does MSC work directly with GP, or does the support between MSC and GP stem directly from the support MSC has for BizTalk?

How would a B2B use-case work with MSC assuming there are B2B customers registered in a GP system with price list discounts? I would expect that MSC would have to have a way to reflect these discounts on the web front. Is this an existing feature?

Answer 1

Hi Zachary,

There is no direct connection between the Dynamic products and Commerce Server, and Microsoft OOB solution that offer connection focused purely on the Dyanmics range.

To maintain the connectivity you have options - synchronously and asynchronously. The later being as your mentioned, accessing GP via the Biztalk service bus, and mapping up connections to the catalog via the Biztalk adapters. The former means you could maintain connection through GP's native services inside a custom sequance component, and state would be stored within the Commerce Server cache. 

Both approaches however do require so custom implementation to get working. However Commerce Server does offer functionality to expose price discounts, or custom catalogs based on a users profile - so as long as you get the two systems in-synch then CS will do what you want it to.

If you need further advice, please feel free to ask..

Thanks,
Lewis

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Answer 2

Thanks Lewis this was a big help! Voted up ^