IBX (company)
| IBX | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 2000 |
| Seat | Stockholm , Sweden |
| management | Leif Bohlin |
| Number of employees | 232 (May 27, 2008) |
| sales | 33.6 million euros (2007) |
| Website | https://de.tradeshift.com/ibx |
IBX (official name: IBX Group AB ) is an international provider of solutions and services for the procurement of large and medium-sized companies. Only in Sweden does IBX still operate under this name. In all other countries, it is part of Tradeshift's Business Services division . Tradeshift and IBX offer consulting services and on-demand solutions for operational and strategic purchasing and call themselves the world's largest trading platform and a leader in the e-procurement business .
history
The company was founded in 2000 as IBX Integrated Business Exchange AB by Ericsson , SEB and B-Business Partners in Stockholm . Among the founders were Hans Ahlinder, Björn Böhme, Christer Hallqvist and Peter Lageson. The first time was used to set up an application environment and to implement it at Ericsson and SEB. To this end, agreements have been made with SAP and Commerce One .
Since it was founded, IBX has been growing continuously and is also active in the other Northern European countries . In 2004, IBX started expansion throughout Europe by signing a long-term contract with Deutsche Post .
IBX has also been represented in Germany since 2005 through the acquisition of the Post-Lufthansa joint venture trimondo GmbH .
In October 2006 IBX took over Portum AG, founded in 1999 and based in Frankfurt am Main , a company mainly active in Germany, France and Spain, which specializes in e-sourcing (electronic tenders and electronic auctions in the B2B sector). Since then, IBX has been offering e-sourcing, e-procurement and e-payment solutions across Europe and is managed by Leif Bohlin.
In 2010 IBX was bought by Capgemini and since then has only operated under the name IBX in Sweden. In all other countries it is part of Capgemini's "Business Services" division and operates as the "IBX Business Network".
On April 1, 2017, Tradeshift from San Francisco acquired the IBX Business Network including the Portum solution from Capgemini. This merger of the two companies created the world's largest trading platform, which connects around 1.5 million companies and has more than 500 global companies among its customers.
As a result, on September 1, 2017, the European service desk was relocated from Krakow to the location of Tradeshift's European headquarters in Bucharest . The "Portum" system, which is designed for electronic auctions and electronic tenders, is operated under this name.
IBX 2008 to 2017
IBX had 232 employees at various European locations and is active in more than 80 different countries (as of 2008).
IBX operated the following locations: Stockholm-Bromma (company headquarters), Copenhagen-Vallensbæk Strand, Helsinki, Oslo, Krakow (service desk), Paris (Capgemini) and Chicago.
Since 2005, IBX has published the Efficient Purchasing Magazine twice a year , a trade journal for professional buyers distributed throughout Europe. The editor-in-chief is the Swedish business journalist Johan Beer.
In May 2008 IBX published the book Purchasing Transformation. The book uses the practical experience of purchasing consultants and provides approaches on how companies can exploit the potential of purchasing.
IBX's customers included large European companies from various industries, including Ikea , Lufthansa , Linde AG , Thomas Cook , Volvo , Saab , Skanska , the state of Norway and SAS .
IBX Business Network today
The IBX Business Network has been part of Tradeshift since April 1st, 2017 . Head office is still Stockholm-Bromma, development and service desk are located in Bucharest.
literature
- Federal Association of Materials Management, Purchasing and Logistics eV (BME) (Ed.): Best Practice in Purchasing and Logistics . 2nd completely new and enlarged edition. Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-8349-0737-0 .
- Mario Büsch: Practical Guide to Strategic Purchasing . Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-8349-0422-5 .
- Leif Bohlin et al. a .: Purchasing Transformation . Stockholm 2008, ISBN 978-91-633-2494-9 .
Web links
- Official website
- Efficient Purchasing Magazine
- Philipp Hoffmann: E-Sourcing at Linde Gas - A playful way to new successes in purchasing. In: Manage IT . July 8, 2007, accessed May 20, 2017 .
- The process is always included , e-commerce magazine, issue 4/2005
- Surviving in global competition: More efficient shopping , IT & Production, September 2007 edition
Individual evidence
- ↑ IBX website, history of the company ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Tradeshift acquires IBX Business Network from Capgemini
- ↑ IBX website, company key figures ( memento of the original from May 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ IBX website, customers of the company ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
