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Author
Paso Baar-Baarenfels, Lorenzo
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Abstract
Multi-sided markets are not a new economical phenomenon and have already been extensively studied and described since 1950. What has changed in recent years are important technical advances in internet connectivity and accessibility that have led to a digital transformation and the emergence of digital platforms with strong network effects able to disrupt business models that have functioned in the past.
One of those dysfunctional business models that can be affected by the ongoing digital transformation are B2B supply chains. Business cover specific needs with suppliers but finding the optimal match is a tedious, risky, time and resource consuming process. By taking advantage of the existing digital infrastructure the market disruptions for finding suitable providers can be mitigated by the implementation of a digital platform for supplier search.
Therefore, this enterprise aims to develop a digital platform to connect SMEs focused on the manufacturing industry by offering distinctive searching and filtering tools to provide the optimum match between manufacturers and suppliers.
The present work pursues a domain driven architecture to reflect the three main business entities (user profile, company profile and search engine), follows a design choice where all main components of the application are small independent processes (microservices) and focuses on building the reactive frontend and the search engine of the web application.
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