B2B Integration : A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-commerce

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Company A Application Application t-marketplace X E-Marketplaces and Collaborative Networks 461 .^plication Company B /•^plication Application Application Figure 15.12. — The B2B traffic jam Company C Application Application C-marketplace ¥ vertical industry, each supporting different technology and different data formats. Each company eventually plans to participate in multiple exchanges. In order to participate in each individual exchange, companies have to establish a connection. Establishing, managing and maintaining a multiple point-to-point connection (see Figure 15.12) between a company, trading partners and e-marketplaces is extremely difficult and expensive. The more e-marketplaces that a company participates in, the greater the transaction data formats that it has to support (see Figure 15.13). This may make the whole scheme error prone as it takes only one slight error in format to cause transactions to fail.
462 B2B Integration — A Practical Guide to Collaborative E-commerce I I f •"»•' t I I tut XEDI RosettaNet Plat Hie cXML ebXML Supplier Supplier Supplier Reseller E-marketplace E-marketplace Figure 15.13. — Different data formats for e-marketplaces Thus, there are severe shortcomings of point-to-point connection mechanism (with e-marketplaces being a point of connection themselves), such as: • Disparate technologies and platforms used by buyers, sellers and marketplaces, leading to integration headaches; • Insufficient leverage of existing technologies like EDI; and • Budding B2B standards that are far from maturity. All these have created the need for a single point of connection which all of the trading partners, intermediaries and e-marketplaces can use. 15.4.2. Lack of support for collaborative commerce Collaborative e-commerce, also know as c-commerce, is enabled through a collaborative framework that integrates cross-organization business process, customer relationships and knowledge. C-commerce is the next generation of e-commerce, that brings about an evolution of the traditional supply chain process. E-marketplaces primarily focus on constructing a virtual community of trading partners to buy or sell goods and services. But the scope of collaborative commerce is far beyond just trading. 15.4.3. B2B collaborative networks B2B collaborative networks enable formation of collaborative trading communities and any-to-any connectivity by linking together buyers,
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