Further development of the B2B shops and HASCO portals

In all the tasks, great importance was attached to spontaneous and direct communication between those involved. The agile and transparent coordination between SAP Hybris architects at hmmh, SAP developers at HASCO and external configuration specialists enabled an efficient implementation of even complex requirements.

Interdisciplinary analysis & optimisation  - For the analysis of the performance problems, hmmh started at different measuring points and coordinated the investigation of the HASCO portal as well as the SAP systems by HASCO IT, SAP Hybris architects, external SAP ERP specialists and system administrators of hmmh. The results of the interdisciplinary analysis showed optimisation potential in various system components, both in SAP Hybris and in the connection of the SAP modules in the ERP. Following the optimisation measures, a significant increase in performance was recorded. Since the optimisation, the selected test scenarios thus run from at least 230% to almost 800% faster. For example, the login process including the recovery of a shopping basket from SAP could be reduced from 4.5 to less than 2 seconds, while the waiting time during the bill of material import could even be reduced from 11.5 to less than 1.3 seconds.

Optimised code quality  -  Before taking on the existing code, hmmh carried out a code analysis to identify possible weaknesses and risks. This code quality analysis was conducted both with tools and manually, and revealed over 3,500 breaches of coding conventions, Hybris standards and best practices. The errors found were classified according to their severity from "blocker" to "trivial", with the highest levels "blocker" and "critical" being fixed immediately. The other errors have been and are being continuously eliminated alongside the ongoing daily operations. At the same time, the number of tests in the code (unit tests) has already been more than doubled by hmmh. The automated parts of quality assurance can thus work more and more effectively, which also significantly increases the quality before manual function tests and deployments.

Expandable features  - For the desired coordination of individual function expansions, agreement with external service providers was crucial in order to realise the implementation of interfaces to the configuration software. The newly configured products are stored in the shopping basket in SAP Hybris like standard items. They can be saved as a material list in CSV format and can also be imported into the shopping basket in SAP Hybris via the parts list import.