B2B Commerce Organization Overview

B2B Commerce Organization for composable storefront allows companies to manage purchases made through a composable storefront commerce web site.

A company's purchasing manager can be set up as an administrator for the commerce organization. The administrator can create units representing organizations, regions, cities, departments, or any other organizational entity in their company. The units are then associated with buyers, shipping addresses, and cost centers, all for the purpose of allowing, controlling and tracking spending.

The following pages in this section describe how to use B2B Commerce Organization. For more technical information, see B2B Commerce Organization.

For in-depth information on this feature, see Commerce Organization.

Role Definitions

In the out-of-the-box B2B Commerce Organization sample data, each user in the organization is assigned a role.

Role	Description
Customer (Buyer)	Users with the Customer (Buyer) role are permitted to place orders. Buyers can create orders of any value.
Approver	An approver reviews and approves or rejects orders placed by buyers, when the order goes beyond the purchase limit set for the buyer.
Administrator	A user who makes changes to the units and user settings in the organization. The administrator is only permitted to administrate the organization structure equal to or below the B2B administrator's position in the hierarchy.
Manager	The manager role is intended for assigning the managers of other users. A manager is only permitted to view the reports of the organization's expenditure in the units that are equal-to or below the manager's position in the hierarchy.

Others Terms Used in B2B Commerce Organization

Term	Description
Unit	A unit is the basic building block of the organization. A unit represents a department, location, region, or other entity.
User	Users are assigned to units. Each user has at least one role.
Cost Center	Cost centers are assigned to units and are used to track spending. When making a purchase through an account and not with a credit card, buyers must choose a cost center. Buyers have access to all cost centers that are linked to their unit and all related child units.
Budget	Budget limits are used to limit overall spending. Orders that exceed the budget are sent to approvers.
Purchase Limit	Purchase limits can be defined per order and per timespan. Buyers are assigned purchase limits in order to limit purchases. Approvers are assigned purchase limits to limit the size of orders they can approve.
User Group	A collection of users, for the purposes of assigning purchase limits in one place, for many users.
Credit Limit	Credit limits are used by sellers to limit their credit exposure. Credit limits can be assigned to any unit by the seller and are not controlled by the buying company's administrator.
Right	A feature-specific permission granted to a role that supplements a generic set of four out-of-the-box roles (Customer (Buyer), Approver, Administrator, and Manager).

Powertools Sample Store

SAP Commerce Cloud includes a sample storefront called Powertools. If you install the standard recipe (called "CX" in SAP Commerce Cloud 2005 or newer), Powertools is installed along with the extensions and sample data needed for B2B Commerce Organization.

In order to purchase something or to make changes to a commerce organization, the out-of-the-box Powertools store is configured to require users to log in first.

For a list of these default users and units, see powertoolsstore Extension.

Sample User Examples

The B2B Commerce Organization feature depends on users being assigned to various roles. The following table lists users who belong to the Rustic Hardwdare sample organization that is included in the Powertools store:

Login	Role
linda.wolf@rustic-hw.com	Administrator
mark.rivers@rustic-hw.com	Buyer
hanna.schmidt@rustic-hw.com	Approver
akiro.nakamura@rustic-hw.com	Manager