B2B portal: Order routing system / Lee Pho Yen

• Main Author: Lee , Pho Yen
• Format: Thesis
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science

The Business-to-Business portal (B2B portal) is taken from the advantage of business flow in real world situation. B2B commerce site allow business partners to browse through the products supported by the other partners. Basically, this B2B commerce site divided into three portions, which are Product Catalogue and Purchasing System. Order routing system and Supplier fulfillment system. Product catalogue and Purchasing system focused on the sales channels. Business partner shopping through the product catalogue system and purchased the products through the purchasing system. The order routing system is under the responsibility of the administrator in the enterprise. The administrator controls the workflow process of a purchase order request until it submitted to the supplier. The supplier fulfillment system focused on the fulfillment process of an approval purchase order. It ensure that requested product being sent out from the warehouse and reached the destination of requestor. In short, this system is a portal of business-to-business commerce site. It implies the concepts of business flow in the real-world situation. The logical flow of the business real world is being converted into the electronic commerce through the internet. Therefore, it works as a traditional business but in the form of electronic over the internet.