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Borough of Lewisham Leverages Purchasing Power With Online Marketplaces
White Paper Lewisham Council wanted to leverage purchasing power by using online marketplaces to gain access to the broadest possible range of goods and services and cut administration costs, reduce off-contract spend, and enforce process controls while... [21 May 2008]
Devil's Advocate: Why machines can't bargain like humans
Comment This is why, says Martin Brampton, it is taking so long to develop trading sites and other online marketplaces. In the case of online marketplaces, a central issue is how to find a standard way to describe the goods and services to be traded. [22 Jun 2004]
Preparing for the Coming Shake-Out in Online Markets
White Paper Over the past year, e-marketplaces like CheMatch and Covisint grabbed the B2B spotlight. Online markets propose to more efficiently link buyers and sellers, enticing many purchasing execs to shift their procurement into these venues. [24 Feb 2004]
Balfour Beatty constructs 'realistic' ebusiness strategy
News The company's IT director, Colin Darch, has categorically stated that the company has no intentions of getting involved with e-marketplaces or online auctions. David Foster, CEO of Burns, explained his company is targeting customers who are... [14 Feb 2002]
SAP-Commerce One partnership cracks up
News The two companies joined forces in 2000 to jointly sell and develop online marketplaces. They will also discontinue their joint Enterprise Buyer brand, a mixture of Commerce One's procurement software and SAP's purchasing software. [16 Jan 2002]
Ariba launches direct procurement application
News By February the company was beginning to show the signs of strain when it dumped partner i2 and turned its back on public marketplaces. Ariba is launching an application which extends online purchasing throughout the enterprise. [24 Sep 2001]
FTC turns up heat under online cartels
News Pat Treacy, a legal expert in competition law at Bristows law firm, explained that the EC views B2B marketplaces as just another economic endeavour that do not need singling out. In particular, it was concerned about information-sharing agreements... [08 May 2001]
Security scandals hamstring B2B sites
News Private marketplaces, run by a purchasing company for their suppliers, are becoming increasingly popular, and the survey reported that 10 per cent of companies are considering setting one up. Only 15 per cent of respondents had participated in e... [28 Feb 2001]
Public sector struggles to come to terms with B2B
News On the day it launched a major project with Royal & SunAlliance (RSA) designed to save the insurance firm £20m per year, Ariba admitted that online marketplaces are running into problems in the public sector. [10 Aug 2000]
Why skies are still cloudy for online marketplaces
Comment So does this set a precedent that puts all B2B e-marketplaces in the clear? Those two statements define, fairly tightly, where other e-marketplaces will and will not be allowed to tread. Moreover, if the companies concerned do not set up their e... [08 Aug 2000]
BMW opts for Ariba platform for e-procurement
News The intranet-based system electronically aggregates corporate purchasing from each desktop and directs the order to preferred suppliers and online B2B marketplaces at higher-volume prices. In a statement, Dr Horst-Henning Wolf, executive director... [11 Apr 2000]
Staples grabs nine partners to globalise e-retail site
News The deal with e-marketplaces and business-to-business (B2B) procurement suppliers including Commerce One, Oracle and Netscape will enable customers to order and buy office supplies online. Anne-Marie Keane, VP of B2B ecommerce for Staples.com, said... [05 Apr 2000]
Sears and Carrefour form online marketplace with Oracle
News He said the recent trend towards online trading marketplaces was a paradigm shift in the way retailers conduct business. Purchasing sits at the core of the retailing mentality and this will radically change the way retailers go about their day-to... [29 Feb 2000]
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