F-Merchant

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)