The e-Business Community (EBC) system provides you with opportunities to gain a competitive edge in your industry by streamlining you supply chain and tightly integrating buyers and sellers. The KeyCommerce EBC enables you to:

• Deploy a sell-side marketplace easily
• Integrate multiple suppliers and buyers
• Allow suppliers to quickly build an online branch from a pre-defined list of branch types with various offerings
• Let buyers place orders online
• Let buyers submit requests and suppliers respond with their offers, then engage in electronic negotiations with each other

Suppliers Benefits

The e-Business Community (EBC) brings buyers and sellers together in an online trading community to facilitate doing business electronically. As a supplier, below are some of the great advantages available to you:

• Fast branch setup - can be done in a few hours using a standard web browser
• Online Product Catalog
• Add / Edit / Delete products and prices from branch back office
• Practical way to display product specifications, images, and price information
• Setup customer specific pricing at multiple levels
• Reply to customers' RFQs online and engage in electronic negotiations
• Generate online sales and statistics reports
• Connect with ERP systems
• Search for new customers
• Setup payment and shipping methods
• Accept online credit card payments
• Setup customer specific line of credit and payment terms
• Connect in real-time to shipping carrier like FedEx and USPS

Seller Benefits

• Visit business branches using standard web browsers
• Buyer account self service
• Search for suppliers by name or category
• Browse the product catalogs or search for products using several criteria
• Create purchase orders online
• Submit RFQs online to multiple suppliers and engage in electronic negotiations
• Online tracking of requisitions, purchase orders, and RFQs
• Simplified Repeat Ordering
• Create and manage your online product catalog from multiple suppliers
• Enjoy the benefits of real-time Customer Specific Pricing set by each supplier