B2B Integration : A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-commerce

456 B2B Integration — A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-commerce
Company C
Figure 15.9. — E-marketplaces collaboration services
service provided by an e-marketplace that needs heavy investment in
staffing and infrastructure for networking, computing and security.
The use of this subscription service would save a company a lot in
extensive networking, computing, security and integration infrastructure
required to support distributed product development.
For instance, E2open — a leading secure collaboration network for
the electronics industry, with participants such as Acer, Hitachi, IBM,
LG Electronics, Lucent Technologies, Matsushita Electric (Panasonic),
Nortel Networks, Seagate Technology, Solectron and Toshiba — provides
very effective product collaboration services.
• Supply Chain Management (SCM) — E-marketplaces should provide
supply chain collaboration services (such as standard business process
workflows in the areas of forecasting, planning and procurement), by
offering a centralized hub, enabling supply chain collaborations on a
shared many-to-many platform.