Guide: ERP integrations with Medusa

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems empower businesses to manage large data and complex operations within a single system. From products and orders, to accounting and reporting, a business may use an ERP as its source of truth and the home to its essential processes.

But how can these businesses effectively build a commerce ecosystem around their ERP? As businesses and technical teams begin their search for a solution, they stumble upon ecommerce platforms and middleware solutions that further complicate the task at a high price. Developers are forced to maintain data and operations across different systems, and are restricted in implementing custom business requirements spanning across those systems.

Medusa is the optimal solution in these cases. Medusa is a digital commerce platform that provides a framework built for customizations. It has a durable execution engine that allows you to orchestrate operations across systems throughout Medusa. Technical teams can integrate an ERP into Medusa, sync data between the systems with data consistency, and build or customize commerce flows to utilize the ERP's data and operations.

This recipe in the Medusa documentation provides the approach to implement different common use cases when integrating an ERP system. That includes using custom product prices from the ERP, restricting purchase of items based on rules defined in the ERP, syncing orders to the ERP when they're placed in Medusa, and more. Even if the recipe doesn't cover your use case, you will get a general understanding of how Medusa can support you in building it.