F-Merchant

The use of an online catalogue based on latest web technology can reach a massive improvement compared to printed catalogue.
E-Catalogue or internet catalogue are the main road to e-commerce or e-procurement improvement.

Electronic catalog includes the ability to find both standard or configured items through category drilldowns, searches, and filters. The E-catalog also allows users to obtain information such as cut sheets, product descriptions, and product images. This functionality is useful when a company’s product line includes both standard
and configured items.

Some of the benefits of an online catalogue are:

• Efficient search and great usability of catalogue. Users can search by best match, lowest price, and highest price.
• Cutting of marketing costs and printed catalogue expenses
• Worldwide easy distribution and availability
• Real-time update and accuracy of products presented on the catalogue
• Improves customer service level with instant catalogue availability and updated info
• Enhanced web experience
• Easy way to archive old product informations
• No need for multiple catalogues or dedicated catalogue storage area in office
• Open standard like XML for data integration, distribution and interoperability

B2B e-marketplace shift online many types of offline market models like Auctions, offers requests and catalogs.
B2B e-Marketplaces can provide a unified view of the goods and services traded in the market and a variety of mechanisms to help buyers and sellers trade these products. It can mix pre and post-transaction services in the same application where buyers and sellers meet online, generate business leads and conduct business transactions.

Two of the most easy to obtain advantages of B2B e-marketplace are: Revenue Growth and Costs Saving.

B2B e-marketplace features:

• Registration of buyers
• Registrazion of suppliers
• Catalog management 
• Product navigation and selection buyer-side
• Creating and submitting purchase orders
• Creating and submitting RFQ (Rquest for quotation)
• Notifications via e-mail and operations log 
• Sellers orders management 
• Sellers Automatic order status changes
• Buyer purchase orders management

These activities may include approval processes, but do not include payment processes.

Commerce One was an e-commerce pioneer since 1994. It was originally named DistriVision.

Commerce One begin to use this name in 1997 and it has developed software that is widely used over the world by big companies. The software developed helps create online marketplaces. Commerce One built many of the open technology standards that influenced global e-commerce.

• 1994 DistriVision
• 1996 DistriVision changed to Commerce One
• 1999 Commerce One went public
• 2004 Commerce One sold a consistent part of its portfolio to JGR Acquisitions (Novell Inc.) for 15.5$ millions
• 2006 Commerce One announced that Perfect Commerce LCC acquired the company.

Commerce One, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Perfect Commerce, LLC.

cXML: commerce eXtensible Markup Language.

cXML protocol is a technology specific for e-procurement and e-commerce B2B.
cXML protocol allows buying organizations, suppliers, service providers, and intermediaries to communicate using a standard language.

cXML PunchOut,
is an easy-to-implement protocol for interactive sessions managed across the Internet.
Using synchronous cXML messages, PunchOut enables communication between applications, providing interactions at remote sites.

There are three types of PunchOut:

1. Procurement PunchOut – Procurement PunchOut let suppliers present its catalogue in real-time.
2. PunchOut Chaining
3. Provider PunchOut