Building Cohesive Buying Communities

Most P2P solutions are deployed as traditional buyer-centric models where an organisation implements a buying solution to trade with multiple suppliers. Elcom’s flexible technologies are different because they can also be deployed to support both buy-side and sell-side eMarketplaces that can be public or private in nature. Buying organisations can collaborate to share supplier content and derive better commodity costs through consolidating their spend. The operator of the eMarketplace, the Market Maker, can opt to participate in the trading platform, or they can merely exist to operate the eMarketplace on behalf of the market members.

Elcom already operate a number of eMarketplaces on behalf of buying consortia who buy and sell similar goods and services amongst consortium members as well as with external suppliers.

• TVA eMarketplace allows members of one of the world’s largest public power producers to buy and sell goods and services specific to the power generation and distribution industry.
• School Specialty helps educators by providing a complete range of educational ideas, services and products online.

Elcom’s flexible solutions allow single buyer-based P2P systems to evolve into multi-organisational eMarketplaces without the need to invest in additional technology or retain users. The system can develop and evolve as the needs of each organisation changes, thereby ensuring maximum return on the investment with Elcom.

Above all, Elcom’s eMarketplace is robust, secure, scalable and proven. National governments, healthcare providers and business critical utilities rely on Elcom’s technology each and every day to get the goods and services they need, so you can too.