Supplier Empowerment: Solutions for Business-to-Business E-Commerce

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Solutions for Business-to-Business E-Commerce

Today’s chaotic world of B2B e-commerce offers exciting possibilities—and challenges. The right solution makes it easy to differentiate your products and services and to sell more effectively to your business customers in whatever way they prefer—including their electronic procurement applications, electronic marketplaces, customer applications, and your own personalized Web site. Find out how real companies are already using B2B e-commerce to reduce costs and gain access to new markets in SUPPLIER EMPOWERMENT. You’ll also see how all the technologies and services integrated in the Microsoft® Solution for Supplier Enablement work together to help companies of all sizes increase revenue, become more agile, and decrease costs as they do so. You’ll learn about:

• THE ROLE OF SUPPLIERS IN B2B E-COMMERCE: Get an overview of current roles, terms, and trends in B2B e-commerce.
• SUPPLIER EMPOWERMENT: Discover the advantages you can gain with supplier-centric technologies, such as increasing sales and margins, reducing costs, creating a better experience for your customers, and distinguishing your company from competitors.
• TECHNOLOGY AS A STRATEGIC WEAPON FOR SUPPLIERS: Learn how best to decide which processes to automate—and how to evaluate your decisions with a cost/benefit justification framework.
• STRATEGIES AND SOLUTIONS: Read case studies about successful strategies and solutions for a variety of supplier needs, with discussions of costs, benefits, and tradeoffs.
• IMPLEMENTATION: Find out how to implement an extensible supplier software solution that allows you to sell effectively through multiple online channels.

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