mJunction - e-Commerce/e-Business Infrastructure and

Architecture

Brief overview of Business

9,900 buyers across India;
Already Sold nearly 8 million
tonnes of steel

Reached Revenues equal to Rs

41,134 crore in FY13, registering
a CAGR of 74%

Launched in October
2009, B2C retail space

Launched Auto
junction in 2006
(B2C)

Launched coal junction

in 2005

Launched eservices in 2002

Founded in 2001, Mjunction services limited is a 50:50 venture promoted

by SAIL and TATA Steel.
Mjunction provides e-selling services for steel, ferro alloys, minerals and
metallics, and non-ferrous metals.
India's largest e-Commerce company.
World's largest e-Market place for Steel.
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e-Commerce/e-Business Eco-system
Unique Value Proposition

Significant improvements in supply chain

management, by significantly reducing
inventory at steel plants, apart from
impressive reductions in overheads, as
well as in manpower and transaction
costs.
Logistics and financial services make it
an end-to-end solution provider.

Helps clients to rationalise spend

management and streamline their
procurement processes.

Strong domain knowledge about steel

industry

Steel Companies

B2B

B2C

Consumers

mjunction

Businesses

B2B

B2C
Raw Material/
Knowledge services
Providers

Mjunction provides a platform for steel companies and raw material providers to transact with their customers (business/consumers)
and accordingly charges the commission from Sellers.
The commission per transaction varies from 2 % to 7% of transaction value

e-Commerce/e-Business Infrastructure
Mjunction has developed an Enterprise Procurement System (EPS) on the IBM Web Sphere Server, which acts as a
hosted solution offered in an ASP (Application Service Provider) style model for sourcing services.
Functionalities of EPS can be broadly classified into 5 major areas
Pre-procurement
Tendering
Sourcing
Contract management
Project management

Analytical and MIS

Reports

EPS provides many unique value propositions to sellers as well as customers:

Exhaustive Audit trail of each and every transaction logged by a user in any of the above mentioned processes.
EPS offers buyers to create business documents on EPS and hence, solves a lot of IT infrastructure related
issues for small organizations.
ERP systems of large organizations can be integrated for smooth flow and transactions of the processes.
ERP provides strong security, administrative and efficient system and RFQs can be processed online.
ERP also links buyers with baking solutions for finance, payment and credit purpose.

Enterprise Procurement System Architecture

IBM architectedEnterprise Procurement System (EPS) of mjunction is based on the IBM WebSphere Application
Server (IBM WAS) and DB2 as the database.

WAS provides a secure platform to an ecommerce site.

IBM used load balancers to ensure that the load was evenly distributed between the two application servers.
Nevertheless, each server has the capacity to take complete load on itself in case other server fails.

IBM built in further availability by providing for site URL redirection to a Disaster.

Recovery site in the event of primary site failure to ensure uninterrupted availability.

Enterprise Procurement System Architecture

(source mjunction.com)