Abstract:
In Sri Lanka, the agricultural sector is the main source of livelihood of the rural
population, which accounts for 70% ofthe total population. Although, the agricultural
supply chain of Sri Lanka is full ofimperfections and hence inefficient.
Meanwhile, several studies observed that the clear majority of small and mediumsized enterprises in Sri Lanka accept the importance of information and
communication technology and e-commerce in their businesses. By considering these
facts, we recognized the necessity of using e-commerce applications in agriculture
sector in Sri Lanka.
In this research we proposed trading portal environment to complete planning,
identification and negotiation phases of an ISO open-edi business transaction in four
agricultural product categories namely, vegetables, fish, spices and fruits for small
and medium enterprises in Sri Lanka.
Small scale software has been developed to facilitate businesses to present their
business capabilities, orders and demands to world with zero or minimum intervention
of intermediaries. In addition, the system enables automatic partner matching by exact
matches, counter offers and collective offers. After the selection of business partner
by his business profile, uploaded trade lead or partner matching results, seller or buyer
has ability to negotiate with that potential business partner through the system.
Finally, we demonstrated the connection between e-commerce system design
concepts and our trading portal according to ISO/IEC 15944-1 conceptual business
transaction events, UMM requirements meta-models and REA ontology.
