The present invention provides an internet based or locally hosted business
to business full service secure commercial electronic marketplace which
facilitates transactions between suppliers and buyers. The system
transforms the suppliers' content into generic content and enables the
suppliers to review, correct and update the supplier content. The system
distributes the content back to the supplier and to selected buyers in a
generic and usable format across multiple forums. The system further
provides multiple levels of sourcing for the suppliers and buyers
including a private on-contract sourcing level, a, private off-contract
sourcing level, a private index off-contract sourcing level, a private
supplier or seller sourcing level, a public buyer sourcing level, and
content distribution for buy side sourcing levels, supply side sourcing
levels, multi-buyer exchanges and multi-supplier exchanges.
