The ATG Business Commerce Reference Application is a fictional business-to-business commerce Web site. Motorprise Inc. is a large distributor of automotive parts. The Motorprise site was designed to offer a full set of commerce features to its business customers and partners using ATG Business Commerce to enable easy catalog management, merchandising, profiling, content targeting, promotions, and analysis.
The Motorprise site includes:
the ability to create organizational hierarchies, individuals, roles, and inheritance.
an approval process that uses the ATG Business Commerce approval workflow.
multiple customer-specific catalogs and price lists based on contracts.
support for complex purchasing requirements such as volume pricing and order restrictions.
purchase orders, requisitions, and credit cards as payment methods.
the ability to use multiple payment methods, shipping addresses, and cost centers per line item.
support for saved and scheduled orders.
robust product searching and comparing.
the ability for Motorprise customers to administer their users and approvers via a Web browser.
Integration point via SOAP and XML.
Scenarios and analysis.
For a technical description of how each of these features was implemented, refer to later chapters.
