e-Marketplace

e-Marketplace bring suppliers and buyers into a single room, fostering the formal exchange of ideas and information through a variety of media and resulting in stronger strategies, better-informed decisions, greater efficiency in processes involved and reduction in costs. It opens up vistas of new opportunities to suppliers while giving buyers access to current prices and availability details.

Alfacom's e-Marketplace is the first procurement software to incorporate powerful sourcing, auctions and catalog features with short deployment times and low capital requirements capabilities by hosted applications. It is suitable for small and medium sized businesses, bringing the same value, productivity, awareness and efficiencies as the expensive procurement system deployed by large enterprises.

e-Marketplace helps companies automate the sales processes and procurement processes on the Internet. It provides a comprehensive platform for building marketplaces, participating in auctions and managing e-commerce documents such as request for quotations, quotations, purchase orders and invoices in electronic form. In addition, companies can benefit from the central repository of commerce documents for efficient way to locate document(s) as well as consistent view of documents.

Alfacom's e-Marketplace consists of the following modules:

User Management	Supports multiple buyers and suppliers
Document Management	Provides online sourcing, ordering, invoicing and tracking of delivery.
Workflow Management	Configurable review and approval process
Catalog management	Supports multi-levels categories and dynamic attributes for products
Contract Management	Supports contractual pricing between buyers and suppliers
Auctions	Supports forward and reverse auctions with proxy bidding
Document Exchange	Supports XML to universally exchange documents with partners
Security	Supports SSL, user authentication, encryption to protect the site