E- Supply Chain Management

Information technology has long been a major factor. Relational databases, client/server architecture, TCP/IP network protocols, multimedia, wireless technology, and most recently, the Internet, have each, in their way, spurred new innovation and new possibilities. The e-business, or Internet computing, model, has now emerged as perhaps the most compelling enabler for supply chain integration. Because it is open, standards-based and virtually ubiquitous, businesses can use the Internet to gain global visibility across their extended network of trading partners and help them respond quickly to availability changing business conditions such as customer demand and resource availability. This paper is divided into two parts. First part deals with how e- Business is changing supply chains. Second part of the paper is designed to examine the related research in this area.

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