Field notes
Notes from the field. Learned by doing.
Six short notes on how I run ecommerce work in large companies. Each one is a habit picked up through trial and error, written down so that you can skip a few of the errors.
- 01
Map the terrain first
Before any design: map the systems, the people who decide and the engineers who know how things really work.
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Money has to match
Reconciling online payments in SAP: one reference end to end, settlements modelled as they are, and exceptions planned first.
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A sales team that runs on its CRM
Visit reporting in Salesforce that a field sales team will use: quick to fill in, something back for every field, managers on the same data.
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From product data to delivered order
Master data, price lists, stock, order, delivery and shipping broker as one chain, with one owner for every piece of data.
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The store is the hub
How a store connects to marketing, marketplaces, CRM and resellers, and why the links matter more than the tool names.
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Running the programme
The habits that keep a programme on track: calls booked early, stakeholders aligned, written follow-up, budget and risks watched every week.
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