Downloads - empirica

More documents

Recommendations

Info

e-Business in the chemical, rubber and plastics industrycompanies can achieve an 80% reduction in order entry time and a 20% reduction in thenumber of order changes; in procurement, Elemica expects a 75% reduction in invoiceerrors, 60% in order processing time and 50% in payment processing time. 98 Even ifthese figures are biased toward the optimistic side of the range, for larger companiessuch gains in process efficiency can translate into significant savings. Celanese, forexample, one of the users of Elemica, is quoted to have realised cost savings of overUS$ 700k by managing their logistics through Elemica. 99 The following business exampleshows how one of the founding members of Elemica, BASF, uses Elemica's invoicingsolution to introduce a large scale e-invoicing scheme.As most of the large chemical companies use a multi-channel approach to e-business,there are different options how to connect with suppliers or customers. Options typicallyinclude connection via the extranet portal, via EDI, or through intermediaries such asElemica. The following business example shows how a chemical company responded tocustomer requirements to set up online ordering, but convinced the customer to use adifferent channel than the one initially proposed by the customer.Examples demonstrating why and how companies work with Elemica are provided in thecase study on Elemica in Section 5.3.cc-hubwoo – e-procurement and sourcing service providercc-hubwoo Group (www.cc-hubwoo.com) is a leading global service provider of e-procurement and e-sourcing solutions ("Source-to-Pay") and in supplier networkmanagement. The company offers its customers on-demand supplier relationshipmanagement solutions which allow large companies to automate purchase andprocurement processes, connect with suppliers, access electronic catalogues andexecute electronic transactions. It argues that suppliers benefit as well through reductionsin transaction and settlement costs.This history of cc-hubwoo is one of mergers and acquisitions of different initiatives afterthe shakeout in e-marketplaces and thus a typical story of the new economy crisis afterthe stock-market crash in 2001.Milestones in the history of cc-hubwoo / cc-chemplorer 1002000: Avisium founded in partnership agreement with SAP; Hubwoo.com floatedon the New Market of the Paris Bourse2001: Merger of the marketplaces cc-markets and chemplorer, forming a jointmarketplace (cc-chemplorer), the leading German e-procurement platform2003: Merger of the marketplaces Hubwoo.com and Avisum2004: Merger of the marketplaces Hubwoo-Avisum (French) and cc-chemplorer(German) into cc-hubwoo Group2005: Acquisition of Trade-Ranger by cc-hubwoo Groupcc-hubwoo offers a range of different solutions, which basically have in common that theyaim at facilitating e-procurement activities of its members. As such, it can be considered a"marketplace"; however, a comparison with typical and well-known marketplaces in the9899Elemica – Connect once connect to all. Company presentation by Mike Mc Guigan, May 2007,p. 12.ibid.100 cf. http://www.cc-hubwoo.com (History).77
e-Business in the chemical, rubber and plastics industrybusiness-to-consumer area (such as ebay) is difficult. In the business-to-business area,the focus is much more on enabling the technical connectivity between a buyer's and aseller's systems, while in B2C the focus is on presenting and showcasing the offer toattract potential buyers.Solutions offered by cc-hubwoo include:Hosted e-Procuremente-Catalogues and content managementTransactional HubeInvoicingSupplier Order ManagementThe hosted e-procurement system lies at the heart of the cc-hubwoo solutions offering. Itincludes standard SAP functionalities as well as specific on demand features developedby cc-hubwoo. Interfaces to cc-hubwoo can be implemented into dedicated systems orinto shared ASP (Application Service Provider) applications. According to cc-hubwoo, thee-procurement system enables close to 60,000 users (December 2007) to engage inonline requisitioning and procurement. On the supplier side, more than 12,000 suppliersare transacting business daily on this network. In 2007, according to the company, thevalue of transactions processed through the supplier network was over €5bn.Purchasing companies and their suppliers are also supported in creating electroniccatalogues. In this area, cc-hubwoo undertakes the hosting, application management andregular updating of all modules as well as the implementation of agreed scheduleupdates for multi-supplier-catalogues. Registered users have direct access to the OrderManagement Tool (OMT), the supplier- and buyer gate, to their business partners and tothe general trading partner directory via the main navigation.Customers of cc-hubwoo include major players, customers and suppliers of the chemicaland pharmaceutical industry, notably in Germany and France, such as Bayer, BASF,Basell, Chemfidence, Degussa, Repsol, Schering, Shell, Solvay and Statoil .Other intermediariesBesides e-procurement solution providers such as cc.hubwoo and connectivity managerssuch as Elemica, there are other intermediaries that focus on specific e-applications.The business model is to convince companies that they can gain from business processoutsourcing – it works if the fees for the service provider are compensated by savings inpersonnel and/or process efficiency. Electronic invoicing is currently the prime exampleof a process where specialised third party service providers have established themselvesas intermediaries.The market of service providers offering B2B e-invoicing services differs considerablybetween EU countries; banks are active in this field as well as specialised companies.Most of these companies are not operating in specific sectors, but provide their servicesto basically all companies. A case study approach was therefore selected for this reportto illustrate how these intermediaries facilitate e-business processes between companies.The case study on OB10/Acordis (see Section 5.1) presents how Acordis, a chemicalcompany in the UK, has benefited from outsourcing the receipt of supplier e-invoices toOB10, a globally operating service provider in this market.78
Page 1 and 2:
ICT and e-Business Impact in theChe
Page 3 and 4:
e-Business in the chemical, rubber
Page 5 and 6:
Page 7 and 8:
Page 9 and 10:
Page 11 and 12:
Page 13 and 14:
Page 15 and 16:
Page 17 and 18:
Page 19 and 20:
Page 21 and 22:
Page 23 and 24:
Page 25 and 26:
Page 27 and 28: e-Business in the chemical, rubber
Page 77: e-Business in the chemical, rubber
Page 129 and 130:
Page 131 and 132:
Page 133 and 134:
Page 135 and 136:
Page 137 and 138:
Page 139 and 140:
Page 141 and 142:
Page 143 and 144:
Page 145 and 146:
Page 147 and 148:
Page 149 and 150:
Page 151 and 152:
Page 153 and 154:
Page 155 and 156:
Page 157 and 158:
Page 159 and 160:
Page 161 and 162:
Page 163 and 164:
Page 165 and 166:
Page 167 and 168:
Page 169 and 170:
Page 171 and 172:
Page 173 and 174:
Page 175 and 176:
Page 177 and 178:
Page 179 and 180:
Page 181 and 182:
Page 183 and 184:
Page 185 and 186:
Page 187 and 188:
Page 189 and 190:
Page 191 and 192:
Page 193 and 194:
Page 195 and 196:
Page 197 and 198:
Page 199 and 200:
Page 201 and 202:
Page 203 and 204:
Page 205 and 206:
Page 207 and 208:
Page 209 and 210:
Page 211 and 212:
Page 213 and 214:
Page 215 and 216:
Page 217 and 218:
Page 219 and 220:
Page 221 and 222:
show all

Downloads - empirica

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?