Autobex Announces Update to Leading Automotive B2B e-Marketplace
12 December 2000
Autobex Announces Update to Leading Automotive B2B e-Marketplace
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--Dec. 12, 2000--Commerce One(R) Powered Autobex.com Enhancements Include Merchandising, Industry Categorization and Auto-Generated Smart Forms
Autobex today announced the release of Autobex.com 1.1. The leading Automotive B2B e-Marketplace incorporates several new features including merchandising, industry categorization and auto-generated smart forms.
"We are excited about the new features that Autobex.com offers marketplace buyers and suppliers," said Phil Carter, co-founder and CEO of Autobex. "By providing a merchandising platform and by arranging our products in categories familiar to the automotive industry, we have made the e-market much easier to use for both buyers and sellers."
The new merchandising platform will enable suppliers to feature special deals at both the entrance to the market and in the market's major departments. Buyers that select merchandised products will retain full functionality of Commerce One's business rules, workflow and shopping cart capabilities.
For Autobex.com 1.1, Autobex designed a proprietary Automotive Industry categorization scheme to replace the generic UN/SPSC categorization used in release 1.0. "Buyers were confused by the rigid UN/SPSC format that includes categories such as luggage and apparel," said Joe Hess, Vice President of Supplier Relations for Autobex. "The Autobex categories are more intuitive and practical for the automotive industry buyer and make the business rules capabilities of the Commerce One engine more powerful."
The creation of smart forms, the product configurator used in Commerce One markets, was greatly facilitated in the construction of Autobex.com 1.1 by a new tool developed by the Autobex engineering team. After specifying smart form parameters, the Autobex tool automatically creates the smart form code and associates the smart form with the appropriate product in the marketplace.
The release of Autobex.com 1.1 extends Autobex's track record as one of the world's most innovative and fast moving Commerce One Net Market Makers. "To our knowledge," commented Jack Belshe, Autobex's VP of Content Engineering, "Autobex.com is the first Commerce One marketplace to feature integrated merchandising, customized categorization and auto-generated smart forms."
About Autobex
Autobex.com, Inc. is the leader in supply chain e-commerce solutions for the automotive industry. Providing e-Content Engineering, e-Market Construction and e-Market Operations services, Autobex enables automotive industry suppliers, retailers, service centers and fleet operators to rapidly leverage the power of electronic commerce to improve both productivity and profitability. Ft. Lauderdale-based Autobex.com, Inc. operates two e-Marketplaces serving the automotive industry including www.autobex.com and www.autobexpowerbuys.com. Autobex investors include Draper Atlantic, the east coast affiliate of Silicon Valley's Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
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