# Turn the Kaufland Business Partner Portal into an API

> Read your EVE articles by status and due date, and your NEO projects with the step they wait in, from the Kaufland Business Partner Portal with one API call each. Or have a workflow check New, In Correction and Delayed articles each morning and email you.

Page: https://fous.com/automate/kaufland-business-partner-portal
Updated: 2026-11-12

Works with your own Kaufland Business Partner Portal account. Fous is an independent product.

## What you can build on the Business Partner Portal

### Get EVE articles by status

Reads the Article Overview in EVE, filtered by status, with each article's country group, due date and your internal note.

- Takes: Status (optional: New, In Process, In Correction, Delayed)
- Returns: Article number, article name, country group, status, due date, note

### Get NEO open tasks

Reads the NEO dashboard: the Product Development Variety, Sampling, Variety declaration and Packaging tiles, with the items waiting in each status.

- Takes: Nothing
- Returns: Tile, status, number waiting, project, variety or packaging

### Get NEO project status overview

Reads Status Overview in NEO's left-hand menu: every ongoing project, including those under review at Kaufland, and who is processing it.

- Takes: Project name (optional)
- Returns: Project, variety or packaging, status, processed by

### Add a packaging component in EVE

Opens an EVE article by article number and country group, adds a component at the packaging level you name, fills in its fields and stops before Send Data.

- Takes: Article number, country group, packaging level, component, material type, weight, volume
- Returns: Article number, country group, packaging level, component, fields left empty

## Automate the Business Partner Portal with a workflow

A [workflow](/product/workflows) runs your methods as one process, with nobody at the screen. A schedule or a call from your own system starts it, the steps run in order, and the result arrives in your inbox or in the systems you already use.

### New, In Correction and Delayed EVE articles

Starts: Every weekday at 7:00

1. Get the EVE articles in New, In Correction and Delayed status.
2. Keep the articles that were not there on the last run, and every Delayed one.
3. Email you the list, grouped by status, with article number, name, country group and due date.

### NEO items waiting for you, posted to your team

Starts: Every weekday at 8:00

1. Get the NEO project status overview.
2. Keep the items where Processed by is Supplier and that changed since the last run.
3. Post each one, with project, variety or packaging and status, to your Slack or project tool webhook.

### Weekly NEO project summary

Starts: Every Monday at 9:00

1. Get the NEO open tasks from the dashboard and the project status overview.
2. Summarize the projects by status, with those For signature or in correction first.
3. Email you the summary.

You can run a workflow by hand on every plan, Free included. Schedules and webhook triggers come with the paid plans, from $29 a month.

## Once built, one call from your code

Once you have built a [method](/product/methods), it is one POST to /v1/runs from your backend, or a tool an AI agent calls over MCP. This is what “Get EVE articles by status” would look like.

Example request:

```
curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "pim.kaufland.com/get_eve_articles",
    "input": {
      "status": "Delayed"
    }
  }'
```

Example response:

```
{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "articles": [
      {
        "article_number": "4410273",
        "article_name": "Acme sparkling mineral water 1.5 l",
        "country_group": "DE, CZ, SK",
        "status": "Delayed",
        "due_date": "2026-11-10",
        "note": "Labels: waiting for printer spec"
      }
    ],
    "count": 1
  }
}
```

An example with invented data, not a ready-made endpoint. The method exists in your organization once you build it, and its name, inputs and fields follow your request.

## The Business Partner Portal’s own options

Kaufland does not describe an API for the Business Partner Portal, which is a browser tool for EVE packaging data and NEO private label specifications. Orders, delivery notes and invoices go by EDI: classic EDI in EANCOM over AS2 or X400, or the free WebEDI portal. Product master data goes through Markant's platform or a data pool.

| Option | What it covers | What it takes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Classic EDI | ORDERS, DESADV and INVOIC messages in GS1 EANCOM, sent over AS2 or X400 from your own EDI system or an EDI provider. | An EDI system or provider, set up with your Kaufland contact partner. The Self-EDI Portal guides the connection to go-live. |
| WebEDI portal | View Kaufland orders and create shipping notifications and invoices in a web interface, which generates the EDI messages. | Free, for small and medium-sized suppliers without an EDI system. |
| Product data through Markant | Master data, product images and documents in a web template, or from a data pool provider, delivered to Kaufland by Markant. | Registration with Markant. Food, brand products with a GTIN, for Germany, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania. |
| The Business Partner Portal by hand | The EVE dashboard and Article Overview, and the NEO dashboard and Status Overview, in the browser. | A personal account created by your Kaufland Purchasing contact. |

Read on November 12, 2026: [Kaufland EDI for business partners](https://www.business-partner.kaufland.com/en/edi.html), [Kaufland product data management](https://www.business-partner.kaufland.com/en/product-data-management.html), [Registration and login](https://www.business-partner.kaufland.com/en/kaufland-tools/registration-and-login.html).

## Signing in to the Business Partner Portal

The Business Partner Portal signs you in at pim.kaufland.com with your personal email address and password, then a code sent by email at each login. One login opens the tools Kaufland activated for you, such as EVE and NEO. With Fous you sign in once through the portal's own sign-in with your own account: the login is sealed with AES-256, the emailed code is handled, and an expired session is signed back in.

## Worth knowing

- **Kaufland FOOD articles have 3 days in EVE**: EVE's standard processing time for Kaufland FOOD is 3 days. After the due date the article turns Delayed, a reminder is emailed daily and an internal escalation starts.
- **Send Data cannot be undone**: After Send Data an EVE article can no longer be edited until it is released again. Country groups cannot be changed once confirmed, except by a request in the support form.
- **Processed by: Supplier means it is your turn**: NEO's Status Overview lists every ongoing project, also those under review at Kaufland. The Processed by column shows whose turn it is, and Supplier means you need to act.
- **Accounts are personal and invited**: Self-registration is not possible: your Kaufland Purchasing contact creates each account. Shared mailboxes are not allowed, and 5 wrong passwords block access.

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- [Morrisons Supplier Portal](https://fous.com/automate/morrisons-supplier-portal.md)
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## Frequently asked questions

### Does the Kaufland Business Partner Portal have an API?

Kaufland does not describe one for the portal. Orders, delivery notes and invoices are exchanged by EDI, in EANCOM over AS2 or X400 or through the free WebEDI portal, and product master data goes through Markant. EVE and NEO are used in the browser.

### How do I get an account for a colleague?

Ask your responsible buyer at Kaufland. They need the colleague's first name, last name, telephone number, personal email address and role. Shared addresses such as a quality team mailbox are not allowed.

### What do the EVE statuses mean?

New is a request just received, In Process is one you started, In Correction is a completed request returned by the Schwarz Group auditor, and Delayed is one past its due date. The dashboard shows the number of articles in each, with Delayed Articles at the bottom.

### Can I send EVE packaging data from my own system?

Kaufland describes EVE as a web interface for entering packaging data per component. With Fous you can build a method that fills in a component on an article and stops before Send Data, called from your code, so the check and Send Data stay with you.

### Is Fous affiliated with Kaufland?

No. Fous is an independent product. You use it with your own Business Partner Portal account, and a method reads and does only what that account can.

Fous is an independent product: it is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the operator of Kaufland Business Partner Portal (Kaufland (Schwarz Group)). The name is used only to say which system this page is about. Something here wrong or out of date? Write to legal@fous.com.