Aleph Front

No order, no hero

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0100

Your customers’ procurement teams are investing in AI agents. A new McKinsey article, Agentic AI in strategic sourcing: Hype or hero?, asks whether it is worth it. Its answer: yes, when agents are pointed at the right decisions. The article is written for procurement leaders. If you sell to them, it is worth reading from the other side of the table.

Hotel MegaStore

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0100

The client

Hotel MegaStore is a French supplier of equipment and products for hotels and every kind of accommodation business. Based near Lyon, in Anse, the company has served hoteliers since 1980. Today more than 8,000 hotels buy from its catalogue of around 30,000 references across six departments: guest amenities, bedding, bed linen, bedroom, bathroom and common areas.

ISO/IEC 27001:2022: what the certification means for your B2B shop

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0200

The information security management system (ISMS) of Aleph Archives Sàrl, the company that publishes Aleph Front and builds ANOM, has been independently assessed and found to conform to ISO/IEC 27001:2022, the international standard for information security management.

ANOM fits on 24 floppy disks

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0200

Business software tends to be heavy. Large installers, long deployments, and a back-office that needs a small fleet of servers before it shows its first order.

ANOM, the back-office we built to drive Intershop, is the opposite. Its first version weighed 17 MiB compressed. Since then it has taken on major features: EDI exchanges with our customers’ purchasing systems, PunchOut catalogues opened from their procurement tools, its own search engine, negotiated price lists for each customer, promotions, approval workflows by cost centre, GDPR requests handled from the back-office.

Price lists, the curse of B2B platforms

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0200

In B2C, a product has a price. In B2B, the same drill costs 142.00 for one customer, 127.75 for a second and 118.40 for a third. Showing the right price, to the right buyer, on every page, is the quiet curse of B2B commerce.

A thousand partners, one server: EDI done right with ANOM

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0200

Electronic Data Interchange, EDI, is an umbrella term for the standard formats companies use to exchange business documents: purchase orders, order confirmations, despatch advice, invoices, catalogues. It has carried a large share of B2B trade for decades, and it still sits between most large buyers and their suppliers. In Europe that usually means UN/EDIFACT, often in its GS1 subset, EANCOM; in North America, ANSI X12.

Two platforms, one foundation: Tivoly Group goes live on Intershop, delivered by Aleph Front

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0200

On July 7, 2026, Intershop announced the successful launch of two B2B e-commerce platforms for the Tivoly Group, delivered in collaboration with Aleph Front: tivoly.com and peugeot-outils-pro.com. Both sites run on the Intershop Commerce Platform, and both were built on ANOM (Aleph Accelerator), which lets Aleph Front ship Intershop projects at pace without compromising on depth.

Beyond keywords: building a recommendation engine for how people actually shop in 2026

Mon, 11 May 2026 10:00:00 +0200

For years, product recommendations on most B2B platforms were a polite afterthought. A “customers also bought” strip at the bottom of the page, driven by rules someone wrote once and rarely revisited. It worked, in the sense that it occupied space. It rarely worked in the sense that mattered, which is helping a professional buyer find the right product faster.

Better product content, on your own terms: AI for descriptions, translation, and attribute enrichment

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0200

Anyone who has run a serious B2B catalogue knows the quiet truth behind every storefront: the product data is never finished. Descriptions are thin or inconsistent. Half the attributes are missing. The same product reads beautifully in French and barely at all in English or Spanish. Multiply that across tens of thousands of references and several languages, and product content stops being a content problem. It becomes an operational one.

From 535ms to 0.15ms: how we made Infor M3 pricing instant on Intershop

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0200

A new ERP, a familiar problem

We recently took on a project that required deep integration with Infor M3, the ERP system widely used in manufacturing and distribution. The requirement was straightforward: display real-time, customer-specific net prices on an Intershop B2B e-commerce platform. No catalogue prices. No generic retail markup. The actual negotiated price for each customer, for each product, for each quantity.

PIM and Intershop: why product governance belongs outside your commerce backend

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100

The back office is not a product repository

Every e-commerce platform has a product management section in its back office. You can create products, add descriptions, upload images, set prices, and assign categories. It works. For a catalogue of fifty products, it works fine.

Why generic helpdesks fail B2B e-commerce teams

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0100

The helpdesk that does not know your shop

Your customer submits a claim: “The items I received are not what I ordered.” Your support agent opens the ticket in the helpdesk. They see the customer’s name, their message, and a ticket number.

Tivoly

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0100

The client

Tivoly is a French designer and manufacturer of industrial and professional tooling, founded in 1917 in Tours-en-Savoie. A subsidiary of Peugeot Frères Industrie since 2022, the company has over a century of expertise in cutting tools: drilling, milling, tapping, threading, reaming, and sharpening. Tivoly serves professionals across aeronautics, automotive, precision machining, energy, construction, and maintenance industries.

Peugeot Outils Professionnels

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0100

The client

Peugeot Outils Professionnels is the professional tools division born from two industrial heritages of excellence: the know-how of Peugeot, which has mastered the art of cutting since 1810, and the expertise of Tivoly, metalworker since 1917. The brand creates machines and tools for the most demanding professionals, from metal stationary machines and wood stationary machines to piston compressors, corded power tools, and concrete tools.

Migrating to Intershop: what to expect when leaving another commerce platform

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0200

Why organisations are moving

Platform migrations are painful, expensive, and risky. Nobody undertakes one for fun. When an enterprise decides to re-platform, it is because the cost of staying has exceeded the cost of moving.

What 60-80% of your B2B traffic really is, and how to stop it

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0100

Your platform is under siege

You look at your analytics dashboard and see thousands of daily visitors. Traffic is up. The servers are busy. But your conversion rate is dropping, page load times are creeping up, and your support team is fielding complaints about slow browsing.

Why we only integrate Intershop, and why that matters

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0100

The multi-platform trap

Walk into any e-commerce integrator’s website and you will see the same pattern: a grid of platform logos, Intershop somewhere among half a dozen others. The message is clear: “We do everything.”

Intershop Partner of the Year 2024

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0200

Partner of the Year 2024

We are thrilled to share that we have been awarded Intershop Partner of the Year 2024 at the Intershop Partner Summit in Berlin.

This recognition celebrates the work we have delivered over the past year: helping B2B organizations migrate to the cloud, embed AI-driven personalization, and build omnichannel commerce experiences. It is a testament to the dedication of our team and the trust our clients place in us every day.

ADVEO Group

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0100

The client

ADVEO Group is a “centrale d’achat”, a purchasing and distribution network that federates a large community of independent member resellers (adhérents) across office, workplace, and professional supplies. Rather than operating as a single retailer, ADVEO sits at the centre of an ecosystem: it negotiates and aggregates supply, runs the shared commercial backbone, and equips each member with the tools to sell under its own identity, to its own customers, on its own terms.

Intershop

Thu, 05 Sep 2019 15:24:04 +0200

Intershop is a commerce platform built for B2B: manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors that sell to professional buyers with their own prices, catalogues and approval rules. The company was founded in 1992.

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