F-Merchant

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

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.

1. Business to business (B2B)
2. Business to customer (B2C)
3. Business to employee (B2E)
4. Business to government (B2G)
5. Customer to customer (C2C)
6. Consumer to business (C2B)