This paper emphasizes on the enhancement of web-based selling technology for complex products. The approach of the EC-funded
CAWICOMS1 project is twofold: provision of technologies both for customeradaptive Web-interfaces for the configuration of mass-customized
products as well as for the integration of configuration systems along the supply-chain. Within this paper we first motivate
the demand for personalized and adaptive Web-interfaces of product configurators as an efficient means for customer relationship
management. In addition, we sketch scenarios where product configuration takes place at several stages in the supply chain
and the involved configuration systems have to cooperatively solve a distributed configuration task.
Customer-Adaptive Web Interface for the Configuration of products and services with Multiple Suppliers. The work takes place
with the financial support of the IST Programme of the European Union under contract IST-1999-10688.