Private Exchanges Streamline Trading Partner Relationships

摘要

You've done the intranet and the extranet You've dabbled with online procurement and you've even thought of participating in a public trading exchange. Think you've done all you can to keep in touch with your trading partners? Think again. Just when you thought it was safe to relax, there's a new buzz phrase in town: private trading exchange. Private exchanges (also called private trading networks and private marketplaces) are the current toast of the consulting and analyst firms, which predict that PTXs will soon take over the now-struggling public exchanges. According to AMR Research Inc. (Boston, MA), the PTX market will generate $40 billion in revenue over the next four years, far surpassing public exchanges.