CamBar logs onto GM's e-com site

By Staff -- Industrial Distribution, 10/1/2000

Charleston, S.C.-General Motors was not idling its engines as the proposed online auto supply parts exchange Covisint awaited approval by the Federal Trade Commission. Instead, the company was conducting dress rehearsals on its own e-commerce site, TradeXchange.

Cameron & Barkley was chosen by GM to be its test supplier for TradeXchange because of its business relationship with GM. CamBar has the integrated supply and storeroom management contract for GM's Flint, Mich., facility. CamBar is currently receiving Web orders from GM through TradeXchange at the Flint plant, M. Joel Bateman, CamBar's executive vice president, said in a prepared statement.

All of GM's online procurement activities will migrate from its TradeXchange to the Covisint site pending FTC approval, said GM spokesman David Barnas.

As of June 30, Barnas noted, over $350 million in transactions have occurred on Trade Xchange. About 3,400 purchase orders have been processed on the Web site.

DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Co. and GM formed Covisint in February. Automakers Renault and Nissan joined at a later date.

Alice Miles, Covisint's interim co-chief executive officer, told reporters in early August that Covisint could be up and running by October. The online exchange, which the FTC approved last month, is currently set to be headquartered in Southfield, Mich.