ChemUnity in 2 pictures Sourcing Portal for Buyers Sourcing Portal for Sellers Request Online Demonstration		Home > FAQ >           1. Is the Sourcing Portal a Marketplace? 2. Does ChemUnity support Reverse Auctions? 3. Is the Sourcing Portal meant to find new suppliers for new products? 4. For whom has the Sourcing Portal been designed? 5. What can I achieve by using the Sourcing Portal? 6. Why don't I use my ERP instead of implementing new software such as the Sourcing Portal? 7. Does ChemUnity compete with industry hub Elemica? 8. Chemicals aren't the same as books or airplane tickets: it's not just "add to shopping cart"! How can the Internet replace long-term relationships with strategic suppliers? 9. Does ChemUnity focus only on full truckloads and/or for commodities? 10. Is ChemUnity's focus on large strategic volumes or rather for all those small-volume products? 11. What about the products that I only buy from one single supplier? 12. What if the product specification sheets in ChemUnity's database don't correspond with my requirements? 13. As a buyer why don't I simply go to a supplier's "sell-side" website to place orders? 14. How will my suppliers react when I start using the Sourcing Portal? 15. Can I integrate the Sourcing Portal with my back-end system (ERP)? 16. Who owns the data generated on the system? 17. What can I do with the historical information that I gather in course of time?   Within the Sourcing Portal module, you can use the search function to perform all kinds of searches on for instance product name or supplier name. By implementing the optional Intelligence Module (part of the total Sourcing Portal), you can obtain a number of customized weekly, monthly or quarterly reports from ChemUnity on things like average supplier response time, trends in your RFQ vs. P.O. "hit rate". You may also benchmark your activities against industry averages.