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Since last more than a decade now, OFBiz has been helping us in building eCommerce stores and using its PIM + CMS + OMS + Fulfillment abilities for servicing online retail businesses. Time has changed, with the growing customer expectations new systems have emerged for serving different functions e.g. in any established brand there will be designated systems to do certain jobs such as PIM(Product Information Management), E-commerce, POS(Point of Sale), OMS(Order Management System), Customer Service, WMS(Warehouse Management System), ERP(Accounting System), etc. 

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As mentioned earlier, at the next level, we find an established brand where the business is tied up to operate with legacy platforms. There are various reasons for this limitation of not being able to completely replace a stack of applications with by OFBiz in one go. In this case, if the business considers OFBiz as OMS, then in most cases, the challenge is to efficiently and cost-effectively integrate with PIM + Sales Channels(eCommerce and POS, POS, Marketplaces, Social Selling Platforms) + Legacy WMS + ERP systems. 

This document presents expected capabilities from OFBiz when used as Below given is a list of expectations when OFBiz is to be used as an OMS in an ecosystem and integration challenges with legacy systems.:

Here are the functional expectations:

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