Modernizing an Experience With Century-old Traditions

BLUE YONDER INTEGRATION

BSA is administered through 272 local councils and divided into districts that directly serve Scout units. Because of this, these B2B users needed to be associated with multiple accounts. Natively, the email address that users use to log in is tied to a unique account. However, because of how councils are structured, the Scout Shop had to be able to grant access to multiple accounts through the same email. BSA also noticed that many B2C customers were becoming B2B customers at a later time, and they wanted to be able to purchase from a separate wholesale account while maintaining their personal account. To address this use case, we successfully implemented a solution that integrates seamlessly with BSA's third-party system, Blue Yonder (formerly called JDA). Through Corra’s custom logic, the email submitted by the user is now used for communication purposes only. Our logic combines the primary email and the account number to create a secondary email address that is used to identify a unique account in Magento, thus giving councils the ability to access multiple accounts with ease.

CHECKOUT CUSTOMIZATIONS:

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ORDERING FOR CAMP OUTS

BSA holds camping events at remote locations throughout the US. To ensure accurate delivery within set time frames, they require camping event organizers to submit additional order information.

With a new custom form in the checkout, BSA can now gather specific information such as “needed by date,” “earliest date deliveries can be accepted,” special shipping instructions, contact name, and contact phone number. This allows customers to place orders far in advance while ensuring that they will be on-site at the location to receive the order.

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RESTRICTIONS FOR B2B USERS

BSA manages all of the customer data (addresses, company association, customer group, pricing, order management, catalog) on Blue Yonder, and Magento syncs the data to and from it.

To avoid data errors, Corra implemented a variety of customizations to restrict B2B users from completing certain actions including modifying account data and submitting a purchase order more than once.

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BACK ORDERING PRODUCTS

Corra made back-ordering possible for B2B users. They are now able to checkout with items that are currently out of stock and will be shipped at a later date.

SIMPLIFIED DESIGN

The Boy Scouts B2B site design is consistent with the look and feel of their B2C experience; however, Corra’s design team simplified it as much as possible to remove potential friction in the buying journey and offer a truly streamlined experience to all customers.