Customers expect and often demand the ability to purchase products and services through a variety of channels, including face-to-face, telephone, fax, and e-commerce. SAP Hosted Solution for Business Products Resellers provides you with a world-class e-commerce storefront that optimizes the customer shopping experience – preloaded with your major wholesaler's master catalog data and complete with personalized branding and look and feel for your company and each of your customers. As a result, the solution makes it easier for your customers to do business with you while increasing revenue and decreasing sales and support costs.

SAP Hosted Solution for Business Products Resellers enables key e-commerce processes, including:

• Detailed product displays, including multiple product views and side-by-side, feature-by-feature comparisons
• Advanced search, yielding relevant and targeted search results
• Dynamic and contract pricing that's updated real-time
• Targeted promotions for cross-selling and up-selling
• Real-time inventory availability
• Order approval workflows
• Order placement with seamless integration into your or your supplier's back-end order management system
• Customer self-service functions such as order history and usage reporting with real-time status information
• Multiple formats of "customer punch outs"