Small and medium-sized steel companies in EU lag behind e-commerce

摘要

While major European steel producers and some big distributors consider e-commerce as an opportunity to createan additional promising distribution channel, small and medium-sized enterprises are dragging their feet and seeonly threats. At the same time the development of online steel trading as an inevitable part of the Fourth IndustrialRevolution is set to go forward at a steady pace, pushing all the members of the steel supply chain to adjust to thenew business reality.