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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?
  No, those restrictions applied to our first product, the Commodity Market, which has since then been replaced by our more sophisticated "Sourcing Portal", which can be used for any product & any quantity: from just a few kilos to full shiploads. The point is that YOU [the buyer] define what it is that you need and simply use the Sourcing Portal to communicate with your approved suppliers.
Since you will fill and maintain your own database, you could even include non-chemical raw materials, however it should be said that the RFQ templates have been optimized for chemical products. Also ChemUnity is mainly focused on expanding its database of registered chemical suppliers.
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?