It isn't Covisint

E-BUSINESS

ArvinMeritor recently held a mock e-auction for the press-with an in-house system unrelated to Covisint. Jeffery Stoner, ArvinMeritor's VP of procurement, describes the auction software, provided by BayBuilders, as a self-service model. "You buy a license to have software on your desktop, just like you do for

Microsoft. They provide the site, a vehicle to do the auction, but you're in control of the process." The Covisint model is an auction run by an outside company.

So why would a supplier want to run its own e-auction? "It's a business decision," says Stoner. "What you're putting into it cost-wise and what you get out of it." For example, ArvinMeritor …