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Challenges and Solutions for Supplier Enablement: Opportunities for Leveraging E-marketplaces to Your Advantage

Overview This executive overview is intended to provide a brief look at some of the key issues and challenges for companies that are considering using electronic exchanges to transact business with new and existing customers. It begins with a survey of the opportunities and challenges involved in participating in e-marketplaces, then provides an overview of the Enterworks solution for supplier enablement, which addresses the many problems that attend the integration of e-business systems and processes for today’s leading trading exchanges. Finally, it concludes with some final thoughts on the importance of preparing your company now for the future direction of e-business rather than waiting until standards and protocols are established and in place.

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Publisher	Enterworks	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	June 2000	Downloads	3
Format	White Papers
Topics	Transaction Processing

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