Dynamic Collaboration Said Vital for B2B E-Commerce

摘要

Companies participating in business-to business (B2B) e-commerce could use a new class of business applications - called extended relationship management (XRM) - to support dynamic collaboration, improve offerings, and better serve customers, states a new report from Forrester Research. B2B company partnering approaches simply have been pushing inventory around the supply chain, rather than reducing it, according to the report, "The Collaboration Imperative." For example, the auto sector still is burdened with $74 billion in idle inventory. The dynamic collaboration strategy shares business activities across a network of allies.