The Development of an Internet Reverse Auction; an Alternative to e-Procurement

E-commerce is expected to growth tremendously as the economic shifted into global
market. This has encouraged Small and Medium sized Enterprise (SME) to use the
changes in the way they procured goods and services and should not miss the emergence
of technology. The aim o f this research is to understand and analyze the principles of
online reverse auction, to design online reverse auction website and to develop a
prototype called W eb b ased Intermediary R everse A uction (WIRA). T he m ethodology
that been adopted in order to develop this project are the planning phase, analysis phase,
design and development phase, testing and debugging phase and implementation phase.
The prototype of the online reverse auction is developed based on the research and
analysis conducted by using several important tools. Tools that being used in this project
are, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Flash MX, Microsoft
Access, ASP and IIS. By having this website, SMEs should realized that they can gained
much profits as the product's price is much cheaper then they can get in e-procurement.