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The increase in the use of eBusiness as a growth strategy is exemplified in this statistic from IDC "82% of all US companies with greater than 1000 employees will be doing business on-line by the year 2002". Companies are increasingly gaining competitive advantages by providing an integrated-electronic method of communicating between employees and business partners. IDC estimates the total market size for U.S. B2B eBusiness to increase to $327 billion in the year 2002, up from $17 billion in 1998. Staggering as that figure might be, Forester Research now estimates that the B2B industry will explode to $2.2 trillion in 2003 from approximately $131 billion in 1999 and The Gartner Group is estimating further growth in 2004 to over $7 trillion. To interact with customers, suppliers and remote employees efficiently, an increasing number of businesses are implementing mission-critical eBusiness applications, rather than traditional client/server applications dedicated to private networks.
eBusiness has not changed the fundamentals of an operation, but what has changed is the way business is transacted. With the advent of DotComs, virtual stores, dis-intermediation, and the Internet, the pressure on the manufacturer, distributor and retailer have met new heights. Customers and consumers are more demanding?Krequiring higher levels of service, knowledge of their transaction, immediate "real-time" information and visibility into inventory, product and order. Supply Chain Management (SCM) applications must now enable the enterprise to provide these types of efficiencies. In order for SCM applications to provide the required "real-time" information, enable trading communities, private/public exchanges, on-line auctions, active and broadcast messaging, a new, "more flexible", systems architecture is necessary. These new systems must enhance traditional functionality and allow the "supply-chain" to promote business beyond its normal boundaries.
Provides based on the Internet application software system, contains the customer relations management, supplies the chain management, the financial control and so on.