Method for facilitating chemical supplier transactions
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Abstract
A business-to-business transaction clearinghouse integrates the traditional point-to-point business supply chain at the clearinghouse. The clearinghouse provides cost effective access to a wide variety of members and includes value-added services. Members of the clearinghouse can include trading members, members that help the trading members ship their products, and banking members. The clearinghouse facilitates business among the trading members by providing a single point of contact for all transactions. The clearinghouse can be specific to an industry, such as the chemical industry. Multiple industry specific clearinghouses may form a network clearinghouses to effectively create one larger and more general business-to-business electronic commerce community.
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39 Claims
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20. A method for facilitating business-to-business transactions between members in a trading network comprising:
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receiving a purchase order for a product at a clearinghouse from a first trading member of the network and directed to a second member of the network; forwarding the purchase order from the clearinghouse to the second trading member of the network; receiving shipment proposals at the clearinghouse from a plurality of shipping members of the network to ship the product associated with the purchase order; receiving an invoice at the clearinghouse from the second trading member for the product; and forwarding the invoice to the first trading member of the network. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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