Prodatic ERP 2

Prodatic-EDV-Konzepte GmbH was founded in 1974 as a small software house and looks back on roughly five decades of uninterrupted product development. Originally the company built commercial applications in RPG II on IBM systems; in 1989 it made a strategic move to UNIX and subsequently to the current platform. The current product, ERP 2, is a German Mid-Market Inventory Management (merchandise-management system) with a clear focus on trade and producing businesses. Prodatic targets the German Mid-Market — the broad mid-market SMB segment — in technical wholesale, tool and industrial supply, occupational safety, SHK (sanitary, heating, climate) wholesale and specialist B2B distribution.

Functional scope

ERP 2 covers the classical core processes of a Mid-Market merchandise-management system in depth. Core modules include sales, purchasing, materials management, warehouse management and despatch. Surrounding modules add telemarketing, integrated CRM, mobile data capture (MDE) for warehouse and service scenarios, document management and a reporting and analytics layer. The functional balance is typical of mature Mid-Market wholesale ERPs: enough breadth to run the whole back-office without external tools, with enough vertical depth in technical wholesale to handle complex pricing structures, customer-specific catalogues and B2B-style order patterns.

OXID e-commerce integration

A distinctive feature of Prodatic is its deep integration with OXID eSales. A 2020 strategic technology partnership produced the "ERP 2 OXID" integration: Prodatic couples its merchandise-management directly to OXID eShops, allowing customer-specific catalogues, real-time stock, customer-specific net prices and order roundtrips between shop and ERP. For DACH wholesalers running OXID-based B2B shops, this depth is meaningfully different from the loose connector approach that most generalist ERPs offer.

Target audience

Prodatic targets the German Mid-Market with a focus on trade and producing businesses. Typical customers come from technical wholesale, tool and industrial supply, occupational safety, SHK wholesale and specialist B2B distributors. Hybrid businesses with own production alongside trading also fit. The sweet spot is roughly 30 to 300 employees with multi-warehouse operations, customer-specific pricing and B2B catalogue depth as key operational concerns.

Architecture and deployment

ERP 2 runs on an Oracle database and supports both classical on-premise installation and private-hosted operation in German data centres. The multi-tier architecture separates data layer, application logic and presentation, which simplifies adaptation to individual customer processes. The product carries an open API for integrations and supports the major DACH-relevant interfaces — payment, logistics, EDI, marketplaces. Hosting in Germany matches DSGVO expectations — DSGVO being the German implementation of GDPR — without additional contractual gymnastics.

DACH compliance and selection

Prodatic carries the BITMi "Software Made in Germany" seal since 2017, the complementary "Software Hosted in Germany" seal and a 2018 TÜV certification covering quality and process attributes. DATEV integration — DATEV is the cooperative of German tax advisors whose data format is the SME finance-exchange standard — is supported through standard exporters. GoBD compliance — the German principles for proper digital bookkeeping — is built into the audit-trail and archiving features. ZUGFeRD and XRechnung e-invoicing are covered. In the DACH Mid-Market, Prodatic competes with Sage 100, abas ERP, Step Ahead Steps Business Solution and myfactory; the differentiators are technical-wholesale depth and the OXID partnership.

Related Topics

• Sage 100
• myfactory
• ERP for wholesale

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