EC and Supply Chain Management: Towards Cross-Industry Supply Chains

Supply chain management (SCM) has rapidly emerged as the central field of competition in many industries and has captivated the top executives of companies in the recent past. Electronic commerce (EC) technologies have the potential to revolutionize how firms coordinate and manage their supply chain activities. This paper focuses on the emerging paradigm of Internetenabled supply chain management. It describes three forms of electronic supply chain management: Firm-centric SCM, industry-centric SCM, and crossindustry SCM. The paper examines the EC applications appropriate for each SCM model and the business and organizational implications.