Grow your Business with Emarketplace - Part III

Increase Company ProductivityAfter years ofsame information you
hard work, finally your business started to pickwill be able to use in other e-catalogs,
up. You are selling more products then ever! Youemarketplaces and even
have lined up ain your own website.Apart from your own
good number of suppliers and buyers. Thingsbuyers other prospective customers from the
have never been betteremarketplace community are able to view your
than now. Except one thing! With rising sales yourproducts in the
overhead ande-catalog, which in turn will bring you new
supply chain expenses are also sky-rocketing.contacts and sales.Create products for sale offers
Your profit margin
is no longer the same as it used to be! You feelYou should create sales offer of your primary
that you are inproducts that you
a limbo! How to increase productivity? How tocarry most of the time and post them on the
cut costs withoutemarketplace. Many
giving up sales?Sounds familiar to you? Well, youremarketplaces have options to sell products with
company is not alone! Accordingdifferent
to IDC, a research firm, while interviewed,procedures. You can make offer to sell access
overwhelming majorityinventories through
of the company executives claimed that theirdynamic market, also called auction, you can
biggest concern ismake hot offers
declining profit margins.Companies, in order towith time limit, etc.
stay competitive, must find solutions toThis is an extra sales channel in the beginning,
increase efficiency in business operations andwhich might grow
control costs. Isinto your primary one!Involve your buyers and
there a solution to this ubiquitoussellers
problem?Remember Dorothy from the childrenIf you would like to use an emarketplace most
classic "Wizard of the Oz"?effectively, you
She had to go through numerous obstacles in herhave to get your suppliers and buyers on board
quest to find atoo. Supply chain
way to get back to Kansas, her home. Only tomanagement solution that usually comes with an
find out that theemarketplace
silver shoes that she was wearing from the veryallows you to reduce operational costs
first day sincesignificantly.- Encourage your buyers to send
the cyclone brought her to the Land of Oz couldrequest for quote for a product through the inbuilt
have taken hersystem of the emarketplace.
back home, all she had to do was to knock the- Make strict rules within your company to send
heels togetherall quotes exclusively through emarketplace.
three times and command the shoes to carry- Ask your buyers to send Purchase Orders to
her wherever sheyour company via emarketplace.
wished to go.Similar to this story, solutions to- Bill all your clients using invoicing system of the
these corporate problems areemarketplace.
widely available right under your nose, only you- Manage shipping and handling though
as a companyemarketplaces.
executive have to overcome the fear of new- Convince your suppliers to use the same
technologies and adoptemarketplace so that even as a buyer you can
them to your own good.B2B exchanges orget the benefits of a B2B exchange.Complete
emarketplaces are capable of solving many keyadoption of an emarketplace will help a company
problems that corporations are facing today.gain
Emarketplaces cannumerous benefits. The following figures taken
provide immense opportunities to automatefrom various
supply chain process,research notes emphasize the importance of
increase operational efficiency, reduce overheade-marketplace in
costs and expandtoday's business world.- Thanks to emarketplace,
market at a minimal cost.Using emarketplacecompanies can reduce purchase order processing
effectivelycost from US $75 to less than US $10.
Two primary factors of company productivity- By automating sales and customer support
are Revenue Increaseprocesses companies can lower overhead costs
and Cost Cutting. Both are achievable if aup to 25 - 30% easily.
company seriously- Companies also can reduce more than five
decides to incorporate emarketplace features inpercent of their maintenance, repair and operation
all aspects ofby incorporating e-business solutions, which are
business operations. That means if as a companyintegral parts of any emarketplace.
you want to reap- Business process automation using B2B
all the benefits of emarketplaces, you have toemarketplace helps companies decreasing of
commit yourselfdocument errors from 20 percent to less than
seriously.Become a memberone percent.B2B Emarketplace solutions are great
Once you find an emarketplace that suits youropportunitiesThe famous inventor Thomas Edison
requirement, theonce told, "Opportunity is
first thing what you have to do is to register andmissed by most people because it is dressed in
become a member.Most emarketplaces haveoveralls and
different membership packages. Although,looks like work."Company executives are by no
to check out the emarketplace - whether it ismeans afraid of hard work, but
viable for yourunfortunately many of them have colossal fear
business or not - you might start with the freeof high
membership package,technology and because of this reluctant to
but once you are satisfied with your selection, toexplore new
use theInternet-based technologies to their advantage. If
emarketplace to your advantage you shouldyou are
choose the package withone of them, be assured that knowledge
most features and functions.Integrate yourrequired to adopt
products to e-catalogemarketplace to your business and manage it
If you are a supplier, this is a very importantproperly is easy
step to take.to learn and implement.Nowshade Kabir is the
Unless you have thousands of products to sell,founder, primary developer and present
this should notCEO of A Ph. D. in Information Technology, he
be a difficult task. All emarketplaces use either ahas wide experience in Business Consulting,
form orInternational
wizard-based, not-so-complex and user-friendlyTrade and Web Marketing. Rusbiz is a Global B2B
product addingEmarketplace
tool. Since e-catalogs that emarketplaces use arewith solutions to start and run online business.
industryYou can contact him at mailto:nowshade[at]rusbiz.
standard, once you aggregated you products,