A public platform
13 September 2012
They may not be flavour of the moment, but public e-marketplaces can still deliver significant benefits to buyers and suppliers, argues Graham Darnell
An organisation seeking to adopt e-procurement to manage its purchasing and supply chain processes can go down a number of routes. They include e-marketplaces, or trading exchanges, that are private in nature - a one-to-many scenario - or those that are public - a many-to-many scenario. The current consensus in the e-commerce industry and beyond seems to be that 2002...