While Amazon Business may get most of the attention in the online business-to-business community, eBay Inc. notes that it already has a lot more B2B online sales than its rival. EBay says it does more than $4 billion in annual B2B sales, compared with the more than $1 billion that Amazon Business has reported.

But eBay is out to raise its image in the B2B world. It launched today eBay Business Supply as a new section of eBay.com that caters to small, medium and large companies looking to purchase products among more than a dozen categories. The categories range from Manufacturing & Metalworking, Electrical & Test Equipment and Heavy Equipment to Office Supplies, Restaurant & Catering, and Healthcare, Lab & Life Science.

“As more and more businesses recognize the advantage of B2B ecommerce, we’re making some moves to bolster this category to anticipate and incentivize the market,” Pooja Piyaratna, divisional merchandise manager of the Business & Industrial section at eBay, said in a blog the company posted today. “Rebranding as eBay Business Supply is the latest step in signaling our commitment to driving this category for the benefit of our customers.”

EBay’s rebranding of its B2B business comes at a time when Forrester Research Inc. projects that B2B e-commerce sales will surpass $1.13 trillion in annual sales by 2020. Amazon Business, which launched in April 2015 as a successor to the AmazonSupply.com, reached $1 billion in sales during its first year and is growing at a monthly rate of 20%, Amazon Business vice president Prentis Wilson says.

EBay Business Supply also includes Wholesale Direct, a section catering to retailers and other companies that want to buy at wholesale for reselling purposes; and Commercial Direct, which serves as an asset management and procurement service for corporations, which can purchase merchandise and supplies, manage inventory levels, and sell their products as a “whitelisted” supplier approved by eBay.

The new portal also provides direct access to SAP Ariba Spot Buy, a service eBay offers through SAP Ariba, a procurement services unit of business software company SAP SE. Ariba Spot Buy is designed to let corporations manage how their employees make purchases, or spot buys, of products not covered by their procurement contracts with their usual suppliers. Buyers using the service purchase products under catalog prices approved by their employers from suppliers vetted by eBay as reliable sources. Buyers can compare those approved catalog prices with offerings from other eBay sellers, then decide with their superiors if they want to opt for a new supplier at a lower price.

EBay Business Supply also offers financing services through Express Tech-Financing, which lets buyers on eBay apply for credit from multiple lenders to complete purchases from suppliers on the eBay B2B portal.

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