An E-Logistics Model for Effective Collaborative Commerce

Collaborative Commerce (C-Commerce) is the name given to commercial relationships carried out over a collaborative framework to integrate enterprises’ business processes, share customer relationships and manage knowledge across enterprise boundaries. This is a business strategy that leverages the extensive reach of the Internet. C-Commerce places emphasis on supply chain involvement where members of the supply chain work together to design, build, market and deploy products and services. Collaborative commerce is the next generation of E-commerce framework. E-logistics is the mechanism of automating the logistics processes and providing an integrated, end-to-end fulfillment and supply chain management service to the players of logistics processes. This paper attempts to design an integrated framework for an E-logistics model that it can be effectively employed for C-Commerce.