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Where vendors gather.

In any traditional market vendors set up their stalls in a cluster. This is convenient for buyers, but it also allows vendors to gain from each other's customers and learn from what their competitors are doing. Economists today often describe markets as information and discovery systems.

Electronic marketplaces are no different, they benefit buyers and vendors alike with the all important addition of providing an information point to allow innovation in price and product. MainHighway follows this thinking in the design of its SupplyPoint and PurchasePoint tools.

Our SupplyPoint solution

Supply point integrates our e-community and market solutions in the form of a multi-vendor gateway. Multiple buyers with pre-verified profiles within a permissions hierarchy can order and buy securely. Customised viewers allow vendors, buyers and administrators to tailor offers in the market to meet the preferences of others within a virtual competitive environment.

Vendors can have control over pricing and product specifications, while gaining real-time access to multi-buyer requests for supply. Third party re-seller conglomerates/royalty distributions are configurable under master vendor.

Buyers can have multiple vendors to choose from for supply with facilities for gathering quotations, placing tenders or instant buy at transparent competitive prices.

Corporate Administrators can (when integrated with PurchasePoint) control purchase decisions by pre-authorised configuration of approved vendor access, buy limits for staff with single-buy, tender or open quotation purchase methods.

Elements of SupplyPoint

A full understanding of the architecture of SupplyPoint cannot be provided briefly. Below is a synoptic listing of the main features of this integrated e-business tool. SupplyPoint includes:

• Development & publishing of customised electronic catalogues
• Electronically receipt & acknowledgement of orders
• Customer-specific pricing structures for vendors
• Profile management for marketing to maximise revenue
• Processing of orders & payment. Allows 3rd party re-seller networks
• Integrated payment & settlement by credit card, purchase card or on account payments
• Secure payment & settlement methods
• e-Procurement integration via PurchasePoint
• Shopping cart facilities, configurable with multi-purchase totalling, integrated discount functions and loyalty discounts and premiums
• Customisable browser interface enabling users to reflect corporate identity & brand image
• Integrates with PurchasePoint Open catalogue architecture and multiple catalogue data input formats
• Products presentation formats allow media-rich content
• Supports range of order and status transport protocols: e.g. EDI
• Comprehensive back order reporting & analysis
• Back-office integration reporting

To find out more about SupplyPoint please contact us for a full technical briefing.

This page should be read in conjunction with our Purchase Point information page

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SupplyPoint uses:

E-retail solutions with multi-vendor multi-buyer environments.

E-community solutions with many buyers involved in transactions with many vendors including re-seller and third-party sell-throughs on royalty.

E-market or B2B2C solutions with many buyers involved in transactions with many vendors

Corporate solutions with many buyers involved in transactions with many vendors.

E-procurement systems with supply chain enhancement and auditing goals.

Community solutions involving non-pecuniary transactions: e.g. area access or downloads that need auditing.

Corporate solutions involving non-pecuniary transactions: e.g. training, closed area access or downloads that need auditing.

SupplyPoint is a configurable solution extensible for corporate multi-layer transactions and e-procurement needs.