ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACE
Electronic communication platform enabling companies to communicate with their partners (suppliers and distributors) to facilitate business transactions and optimize economic performance. Electronic marketplaces are generally divided into three categories:
• the “vertical” marketplaces bringing together all actors of a channel (for example, agri-food producers, distributors and intermediaries, textile, chemicals, etc.);
• the “horizontal” marketplaces bringing together companies located at the same stage of the value creation chain and belonging to the same business sector (for example, all distributors);
• the “transverse” or “public” marketplaces to which any type of company can belong whatever their business sector (for example, a marketplace bringing together companies specialized in MRO products).