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Matching Your Needs with Peer Group Experience *"Five years on: Are online Marketplaces delivering the benefits as promised?"* Many of our clients are looking at ways of reducing their investment in Industry Marketplaces and ways in which to reduce costs and enhance ownership/security by bringing company spend information in-house. If the online marketplaces were delivering on their promises then would companies be reviewing their marketplace strategies? Other clients in fact are pursuing alternative initiatives such as customer web portals, financial hubs and direct business-to-business integration. But whatever the strategy and direction of your organisation the same issues keep coming up: Direct Integration Customer v Supplier Integration Business Case (who pays?) Cross Business Process Standardisation. Marketplaces and Hubs Cost Reduction strategies Cross Industry Coding Structures (after all how many companies actually source and sell within their own industries) Customer Web Portals Transforming customers to the web Driving service take up.
Are these issues of interest to you or your colleagues and would your organisation benefit from learning how other large organisations are delivering Business-to-Business Commerce initiatives? If you or one of your colleagues are keen to benchmark your organisation against other non-competing organisations in this highly topical area then this initiative should be of interest. Xchasm will be running inter company activities on this subject over the coming months, so simply let us know via the email link below if this is of interest to you (or one of your colleagues) and we will be in touch in due course to match your needs and requirements to our client's.
Example Industry(s)	Oil, FMCG, Industrial, Financial Services, Automotive	Ranking	Global 500 & FTSE
Titles that will Benefit	Heads of Sourcing, Procurement, eCommerce, IS & eBusiness	Geographic Responsibility	Any
Background Experience	Experience in both trade and supply of goods and service solutions through Marketplaces, Web or Direct Integration	Xchange Requirement	Understanding of Marketplace strategies, Web customer take up and Direct Integration Business.

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