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Analysis of B2B e-marketplaces: an operations perspective

Authors: Yifeng Zhang, Siddhartha Bhattacharyya

Published in: Information Systems and e-Business Management | Issue 3/2010

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The phenomenon of business-to-business (B2B) e-marketplaces has triggered a lot of interest among researchers in recent years. Most of these studies focus on price competition or cost reduction. Few studies, however, have examined the impact of e-marketplaces on the participants’ supply chain operations, including inventory management and order fulfillment. This study aims to fill such a gap. Employing agent-based simulations, we find that supply network agents tend to keep more inventories and backlog/lose fewer orders in the e-marketplace than in traditional supply chains. And this effect is profounder for the upstream agents, i.e., distributors and manufacturers than for downstream agents, i.e., retailers. Managerial implications of these findings are discussed.

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Title: Analysis of B2B e-marketplaces: an operations perspective
Authors: Yifeng Zhang
Siddhartha Bhattacharyya
Publication date: 01-06-2010
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Information Systems and e-Business Management / Issue 3/2010
Print ISSN: 1617-9846
Electronic ISSN: 1617-9854
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10257-008-0096-y

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