B2B and E-Commerce
07-05-09
B2B (Business to Business) commerce over the Internet is generating a lot of interest in these years. B2B commerce is used as a new strategy within many business sectors and it will have a massive role in the near future.
Great company like Commerce One, Ariba, SciQuest have attained stock market capitalizations. Venture capitalists are pouting money into more B2B start-ups. Industrial company like GM and Ford have announced pan to set up their own e-commerce platform.
The idea beside an e-commerce B2B platform is simple: Bringing together huge numbers of buyers and sellers, automating transactions to achieve common advantages.
Traditional “B2B Commerce” begins “B2B E-Commerce” when trading operations are translated from offline world to online world.
B2B E-Commerce defines the commercial operations that happens in a context limited to companies onlies.
When we think about B2B e-commerce we think to a web application owned by a company that sell something to another company.
B2B E-Commerce is not the only model that exists in the E-Commerce Universe.
- Business to business (B2B)
- Business to customer (B2C)
- Business to employee (B2E)
- Business to government (B2G)
- Customer to customer (C2C)
- Consumer to business (C2B)