In today’s increasingly competitive global market, most enterprises place great stress on reducing order fulfillment costs, minimizing time-to-market and maximizing product quality. The desire of businesses to achieve these goals has seen a shift from a make-to-stock paradigm to a make-to-order paradigm. The success of the make-to-order paradigm requires robust and efficient supply chain integr...

studying the effects of b2b e-commerce adoption on the smes process and structure is crucial for businesses. extant researches have investigated the impacts of adopting e-commerce and provided some findings, but the varied theoretical approaches have produced results that reflect the impacts of either external or internal factors of adopting e-commerce. however, these approaches did not use a c...

Electronic commerce has changed the way businesses interacting with consumers and peers. For both B2B and B2C transactions, it becomes more and more important to make the traditional negotiation price mechanism automated and intelligent [1]. Automated negotiation has become the core of the next generation intelligent e-commerce. The main principle is using software agent technology to make the ...

As the market competition for ICT products and services businesses continues to increase, B2B companies are expected improve their performance in order win share. Design implementation of Performance Management Systems (PMS) essential components management control systems providing best business solutions. This research proposes a modification Malcolm Baldrige Criteria Excellence (MBCfPE) Knowl...

This article presents a research study into the development of a Web 2.0 B2B and B2C horizontal portal from the perspective of Actor-Network Theory, and the benefits for its participants particularly Small and Medium Enterprises. Whilst International service providers such as eBay, Linkedin and Google have revolutionised transactions for both businesses and consumers, this paper focuses on Aust...

E-commerce is defined as a means of conducting business electronically via online transactions among trading partners. Forrester Research predicted that B2B (business-tobusiness) e-commerce could be worth $5.7 trillion by the end of 2004. This study aims to examine the evolution of e-technologies and its impact on trust. Trust refers to reliance on and confidence in one’s business partner (Maye...

All businesses, big and small, manage many interactions with different communities each day. The enterprise interacts with employees, consumers, small businesses, mid-size businesses, and large businesses (see figure 1). These interactions are critical to the daily operation of the business. Inefficiencies that exist in the interactive processes of the enterprise create several business problem...

B2B (business-to-business) electronic commerce provides firms with different business value depending on how organizations use the online network. In this paper, we distinguish two different types of B2B e-commerce adoption: basic and collaborative B2B e-commerce. With ‘‘basic B2B e-commerce’’, firms implement the electronic network simply to automate the exchange of commercial documents. In co...

Now-a-days, there is a authentic need for a database system for storing, retrieving and manipulate XML based data to the purpose of exchange data over the web with an efficient manner. XML provides a noteworthy boost to web-based and business-to-business (B2B) applications. Data were normally stored in relational databases and XML was used as a medium to transport data between web-based and bus...

The competitive business world has changed considerably thanks to the globalisation of the market. Business contacts are being established all over the world, without regard for the previous limitations of space or time. However, global business faces great inter-operability challenges, e.g. how to enable collaborating businesses to communicate and exchange information in a flexible and secure ...