Title: The roles of electronic marketplace for buyer–supplier relationship: collaborative system architecture

Authors: Han-Seong Yoon, Ik-Whan G. Kwon

Addresses: Department of MIS, School of Business Administration, Gyeongsang National University, Gazwa-Dong, Jinju 660-701, Republic of Korea and The Consortium for Supply Chain Management Studies, John Cook School of Business, Saint Louis University, 3674 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108, USA. ' The Consortium for Supply Chain Management Studies, John Cook School of Business, Saint Louis University, 3674 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108, USA

Abstract: As the most widely used media of B2B e-business, the E-Marketplace (EM) can play an important role in the age of collaborative commerce (c-commerce). In the Supply Chain Management (SCM) area, the relationship-based collaboration among partners has shown a great efficiency. Although the collaboration is important in both areas of EM and SCM, there has been a critical difference in the selection of trade partners between them. In this paper, the EM|s collaborative stages for integration with its customer system are reviewed and a system architecture is proposed for EM|s electronic functional role within the perspective of c-commerce and buyer–supplier relationship. The relationship-based B2B commerce through EM is reviewed to explain that it can be more beneficial than the commerce based on the price competitive selection of trade partners. With the proposed system architecture, an EM can be the functional medium for the collaborative Inter-Organisational Information System (IOIS) architecture.

Keywords: e-marketplace; electronic marketplace; supply chain management; SCM; collaborative commerce; c-commerce; buyer–supplier relationship; collaboration; information systems; B2B; business-to-business; supply chain integration; e-commerce; electronic commerce.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSOM.2006.010251

International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 2006 Vol.2 No.4, pp.335 - 351

Published online: 11 Jul 2006 *

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