Electronic procurement using virtual supply chains

Projektinformationen

SUPPLYPOINT

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 27007

Projekt abgeschlossen

Startdatum 1 Juli 1998

Enddatum 30 Juni 2000

Finanziert unter

• Specific research and technological development programme in the field of information technologies, 1994-1998

Gesamtkosten

€ 1 819 890,00

EU-Beitrag

€ 1 300 000,00

Koordiniert durch

UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND
United Kingdom

CORDIS bietet Links zu öffentlichen Ergebnissen und Veröffentlichungen von HORIZONT-Projekten.

Links zu Ergebnissen und Veröffentlichungen von RP7-Projekten sowie Links zu einigen Typen spezifischer Ergebnisse wie Datensätzen und Software werden dynamisch von OpenAIRE abgerufen.

Verwertbare Ergebnisse

ELECTRONIC PROCUREMENT USING VIRTUAL SUPPLY CHAINS; SUPPLYPOINT

SUPPLYPOINT addresses the issues of pan-European electronic trade links for business-to-business and business-to-public body electronic commerce, where it supports electronic procurement. This is achieved by using supply chains and covering a life cycle from contract identification to completion, including supply chain management and electronic payments. SUPPLYPOINT, a European electronic procurement system utilizing virtual supply chains has undertaken comprehensive surveys to identify the requirements of SMEs and procuring entities and the legal framework in which these requirements must operate. The development of a conceptual European framework for electronic procurement using virtual supply chains, it incorporates existing state-of-the-art public and private sector electronic procurement and supply chain systems, in particular, Tradepoint, ELPRO and SIMAP which takes explicit account of the needs of SMEs at all stages. We are to build and pilot on a number of sites a demonstrator electronic procurement using a virtual supply chains system incorporating multimedia and distributed work-flow management, document handling, supply chain and tendering procedures. User trials are being conducted, and give guidance and make recommendations on the development of virtual supply chains within electronic procurement systems meeting the needs of SMEs, and the development of effective regional support networks for SMEs with a view to the long term exploitation of the SUPPLYPOINT service. The SUPPLYPOINT service is a new business opportunity which will be taken up by a number of the project partners. It will benefit the wider business audience by addressing a current gap in the Electronic Commerce market place and will support the whole transaction cycle, give fast and accurate access to information on possible contracts, show the current state of the supply chain(s), allow SMEs to form dynamic supply chains enable brokers to form virtual supply chains.