This paper discusses the key elements of effective and successful strategies for organisations engaging in Business-to-Business (B2B) Electronic Markets. Existing literature have concentrated on developing schemas for categorising B2B Electronic Markets, and evaluating the innovative business models they employ, with less focus on understanding the business value of B2B Electronic Markets from ...

The struggle of SMEs to enter the B2B marketplace is of a huge importance. Standardized communication should be seen as an asset rather than as a barrier. B2B Frameworks as standards for communication cannot be fully implemented by SMES due to the cost, organizational or managerial decisions and other factors. The power of e-marketplaces can be an option for SMEs to participate in the biggest m...

There is an increasing demand for doing business online, which calls for higher business interoperability on business-to-business (B2B) electronic market places (EMp). This drives the development of integration technologies for improving B2B electronic market (EM) functions on EMp. This paper argues that with the development of integration technologies companies will use more private, community...

B2B, workflow, HP Process Manager, RosettaNet Business-to-Business (B2B) E-commerce is emerging as a new market with tremendous potential. Organizations are trying to link services across organizational boundaries in order to electronically trade goods and services. Standards such as RosettaNet, CBL, EDI, OBI, and cXML, describe how electronic B2B interactions should be carried on so that dynam...

With the fast growth of B2B sales, an intelligent system is greatly useful for decreasing transaction cost and increasing market efficiency on electronic platforms. In order to improve the quality of transaction processing and customer experience, this paper proposes a knowledge-based system, which employs a Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) technique for trade matching in B2B marketplace as a substit...

In this paper, we describe the multiagent supply chain simulation framework MACSIMA. This framework allows the design of large-scale supply network topologies consisting of a multitude of autonomous agents representing the companies in the supply network and acting on their behalf. MACSIMA provides all agents with negotiation and learning capabilities so that the co-evolution and adaptation of ...

With the popularity of commercial use of the Internet and WWW, business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce and e-procurement are moving corporate purchasing to the Web. Basically, there are two types of B2B e-commerce business models. Extranets connect the buyer and its suppliers with a closed network. In contrast, electronic markets create open networks for buyer and supplier interactions. Extensive ...

This paper examines electronic marketplaces as one ‘digital economy’ innovation. Great expectations existed for electronic marketplaces in the late 1990s, leading to the establishment of hundreds of new venues for B2B buying and selling. It was feared that the improved efficiency over traditional market mechanisms meant existing business relationships and methods were doomed. Another concern wa...

The transmission of electronic product catalogs using e-business standards belongs to the first and most common applications of XML in B2B e-commerce. Suppliers create electronic catalogs in standardized formats and transfer them to their customers. Eventually the receiving enterprises import the data into e-market places and e-procurement systems. In both cases a transformation of relational d...

Multimedia content can be digitally distributed in a B2B and in a B2C context. While B2C distribution has been successfully governed by means of digital licenses, B2B transfers have received less attention. These digital licenses have been expressed in standard RELs (Rights Expression Language) and they can be seen as the electronic replacement of distribution contracts and end user licenses. H...