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Various ways vendors and customers can make money in business-to-business (b2b) e-marketplaces. Topics include fees based on transaction complexity and volume, equity ownership, market efficiency, and network effects. The document also discusses the importance of standards and document exchange in these marketplaces.
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what counts as a transaction?
what counts as a transaction?
who pays the fees -- buyers or suppliers?
who pays the fees -- buyers or suppliers?
fees for exchange-to-exchange
fees for exchange-to-exchange transactions and syndicated services
transactions and syndicated services
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owning a share of the new company
owning a share of the new company created to run an e-marketplace
created to run an e-marketplace
only valuable if the company can go public
only valuable if the company can go public
not going to happen anytime soon
not going to happen anytime soon
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Connect once, trade anywhere
Connect once, trade anywhere
-- drives the “network effect”
-- drives the “network effect” and value increases
and value increases exponentially for everyone in
exponentially for everyone in the trading community:
the trading community:
Buyers
Buyers
Suppliers
Suppliers
Net Market Makers
Net Market Makers
Mega Exchanges
Mega Exchanges
Business Service Providers
Business Service Providers
Number of UsersNumber of Users
Economic ValueEconomic Value
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TelecommunicationTelecommunication
Automotive
Automotive
N. America
N. America
Utilities
Utilities
(5 Companies)(5 Companies)
AerospaceAerospace
EnergyEnergy
Global UtilitiesGlobal Utilities
(15 Companies)
(15 Companies)
Film and TelevisionFilm and Television
Forest ProductsForest Products
“MMProcurement”“MMProcurement”
Metals & Mining
Metals & Mining
16 Equity
16 Equity
PartnersPartners
Electronics
Electronics
Outdoor Products
Outdoor Products
and Services
and Services
Metals & MiningMetals & Mining (16 Companies)(16 Companies)
Japanese Gas,
Japanese Gas,
Chemicals &Chemicals &
UtilitiesUtilities
e-Procuremente-Procurement
ConsortiumConsortium
(14 Companies)(14 Companies)
If you send me a
catalog
request
, I will send
you a
catalog
If you send me a
purchase order
and I can
fulfil it, I will send you a
purchase order
response
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Document exchange is a more natural way
Document exchange is a more natural way to think about doing business
to think about doing business
Less brittle than APIs (how enterprise
Less brittle than APIs (how enterprise sw
sw
vendors think)
vendors think)
More consistent with legacy EDI
More consistent with legacy EDI
XML is application and vendor neutral,
XML is application and vendor neutral, making it easy to provide “open”
making it easy to provide “open” marketplace with 3rd party buying and
marketplace with 3rd party buying and selling apps and other marketplace services
selling apps and other marketplace services like payment, taxation, logistics…
like payment, taxation, logistics…
Document exchange between marketplaces is
Document exchange between marketplaces is fundamentally the same as within a
fundamentally the same as within a marketplace -> Global Trading Web
marketplace -> Global Trading Web
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Company
1
Company
2
Company
3
Company
4
Company
5
Company
nnn
PO 1
PO 3PO 2
PO 4
PO NNN
Problem:
Individual
every other company’scompanies mapping to
document formats
doesn’t scale
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