# The commerce back-office built for procurement.

> ANOM is a multi-tenant commerce back-office for distributors and manufacturers: catalogue, prices per buyer, orders, quotes, PunchOut and EDI in one platform. On Intershop, it is the interface your teams use every day.

Source: https://alephfront.com/anom/

## ANOM and Intershop

- **One interface**: Quotes, approvals, prices, carts, after-sales and content in one place, organised by job. Intershop provides the foundation, ANOM is what your teams work in.
- **Intershop core untouched**: ANOM drives Intershop through its API and never modifies the core, so upgrades stay simple.
- **Always up to date**: You stay on the latest Intershop version. API changes and retired functions are absorbed by ANOM, with no impact on your teams.
- **Upgrades included**: No migration project to budget when Intershop releases a new version.
- **Run by Aleph**: Hosting, migrations, upgrades and fixes: our team runs Intershop for you.
- **Light and hardened**: The whole application weighs about 50 MB, the size of 35 floppy disks. It runs in a minimal, hardened, read-only environment, and releases go out without downtime.


## Sell at the right price

- **Pricing engine**: One price per buyer, resolved at every request: named customer, segment or everyone, with a clear rule for which price wins.
- **Price lists**: Negotiated grids with validity periods and quantity tiers, attached to a customer or a segment.
- **Promotion engine**: Promotions with a simulator. Every order shows what each promotion actually removed.


## Plug into your buyers' systems

- **PunchOut**: Buyers shop from their purchasing system over cXML or OCI: SAP Ariba, Coupa, Oracle iProcurement, Jaggaer, Workday, SAP SRM or S/4HANA. The cart returns as a requisition.
- **EDI**: Orders, despatch advice, catalogue and prices, and sell-out reports exchanged automatically and securely with each trading partner.
- **Approvals and ANOM Tappr**: Buyer-side approval workflows by cost centre. Approvers decide from ANOM Tappr, our iOS and Android app: real-time notifications, swipe to approve, or approve a whole batch at once.


## Run the catalogue

- **Catalogue (PIM)**: Products, variants, attributes, categories, collections, brands, UNSPSC and ETIM classifications, with data-quality checks.
- **Search engine**: Instant, multilingual product search with facets, synonyms and tunable relevance, configured from the back-office.
- **Media CDN**: Product images in seven views and six sizes, product notices (PDF) in each language and structured product data, served from a CDN.
- **AI product descriptions**: Product descriptions written with AI, right from the back-office.
- **Merchandising**: Showcases and store locators.


## Take and fulfil orders

- **Quotes, carts and orders**: Quotes converted into orders, recurring orders, and a view of every buyer's open carts.
- **Payments**: Card payment that never leaves a ghost order behind: the order is created when the buyer pays and cancelled automatically if the bank declines. Pay on account with each customer's terms and credit limit.
- **Shipping**: Carriers, zones and shipping rules.
- **After-sales**: Buyers register their equipment with serial number and purchase date, see when the warranty ends and file a claim online with the invoice attached.
- **Sell-out and replenishment**: Reorder suggestions based on what your customers actually sell.


## Operate with confidence

- **Built-in WAF**: Every request is filtered before it reaches the platform: probes of the admin area, requests for sensitive files, fake browsers. Malicious addresses are banned automatically, and you can ban one yourself in a click.
- **Compliance**: VAT number and company checks, GDPR anonymisation.
- **Multi-language, multi-currency, multi-tenant**: Each client is a configuration of the same platform, not a fork.
- **API and notifications**: An API for your integrations, plus email and SMS notifications.