Formed by Daimler-Chrysler, Ford, General Motors On February 25, 2000. Using business-to business applications and communication services. Working with manufacturers, suppliers, and industry trade groups.
Why Covisint has prospered as a supplier of e-procurement
portals and business document data exchange rather than as a neutral marketplace?
Reduced Supplier Communication Costs
Cost Avoidance Reduced Operating Costs Improved Customer and Supplier Management Switching Costs Ability to Attract a Large Number of Participants
Used extensively bidding.
Reducing process cost by 50%. Reducing purchasing time by 80%. Cuts in communication process by 60%-90%. Developing 300 products by online. Processing 5,00,000 document per year by electronic document exchange system.
Purchased
by Compuware. Introducing EDI formats like ANSI, X12 etc. to transfer documents. Reducing annual cost by up to 80%. Reducing maintenance cost by 50%.
2005-2008
Used by more than 45,000 organizations in 96 countries.
Transportation of over 40 million messages annually. Developing infrastructure boasts 99.997%. Diversified industries including: *Manufacturing *Healthcare *Aerospace *Public sector and *Financial services