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Today companies are working in a very different business environment. This is a global and virtual environment in which many new tools have been developed and have become essential. These tools include e-Business solutions.
This is why the railway supply industry is proactively facing the challenges and opportunities that information technology is offering to businesses. It recently began researching and co-operating on various initiatives in this area through the auspices of UNIFE. New ways of co-operation across the whole industry are being assessed and tested that are likely to improve the supply chain management in all its forms. Fostering e-Engineering, e-Manufacturing, e-Procurement and e-Working will be the driving force for a major change in the industry business environment.
In this regard, current and past experiences of other industries are being closely researched. Many of these efforts are culminated in the UNIFE e-Business-working group where competing industries come up with common solutions to common problems. This will allow the railway supply industry to operate effectively and productively in a changing environment.
To this end UNIFE and UIC have collaborated for the last 5th Internet Club Forum hosted by the International Union of Railways (UIC) on October 11-12, 2001 that brought together more than 170 participants representing 68 different supply and operating companies from 27 countries. The title of the forum was "From e-procurement to electronic marketplaces". With e-business topping the agenda for UIC and UNIFE members, the two organisations have decided to set up a taskforce on e-procurement/marketplaces, following the signing of an MoU in June 2000 in Paris.
Please, click here to be directed to the papers and speeches presented during the Forum (Courtesy of the International Union of Railways - UIC)
Contact
Loris Di Pietrantonio, International Affairs Manager
E-mail: Loris.di.pietrantonio@unife.org
Tel. +32 2 626 12 63
Fax. +32 2 626 12 61
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