The focus of business-to-business electronic commerce (e-B2B) is the coordination and automation of interorganizational processes via electronic means. E-B2B is one of economics and is a subset of the entire e-commerce activicy, among other things, business-to-consumer (B2C), Business-to-Government (B2G) and Consumer (C2C) activities. Before a detailed analysis of B2B e-commerce, you should consider that many authors today identify e-commerce as part of a general form of electronic commerce such as e-business. E-business is generally to identify the broader context of process automation that can occur between firms and covers the automation of supply and trade in services, support, transfer of know-how and other aspects of business interaction , not necessarily the transaction to buy or sell is executed. In this document, the term e-commerce and e-business are interchangeable and refer in each case to the broader context must be defined. B2B E is an important engine for the economy of the Internet. After one of Gartner Group, B2B, is growing at a rate of 100-200% a year. With an estimated $ 430 billion in 2000, the total value of B2B e-business was initially expected that more than $ 7 billion in 2009 with the highest percentage in North America ($ 2.8 trillion), Europe (2 , 3 trillion dollars) and Asia (900 billion dollars), and 24% of all e-B2B transactions are expected in 2009 by electronic means. However, the recent global economic slowdown has led to a revision of the original estimates to reflect changing economic conditions.Sustaining a high rate of adoption and growth in B2B e-business requires several components: the innovative application of technology , a ubiquitous communications mediul well suited for electronic B2B related documents and information, business and regulatory environment for the continuation of the process and, not least a series of motivational forces urges organizations to adopt interoperable automation company as part of their day – on-going business. The technological basis of e-B2B was the development over the past 30 years, and innovations in the fields of telecommunications, communication protocols and computer methods, and interorganizational business process management. In 1970, the Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) emerging standard are designed to communicate to trade at expensive private networks for the calculation. The cost to attend this first systems were high. EDI systems, for example, requires specialized equipment and systems for telecommunications, but the prohibition of all major companies to participate. However, the potential benefits realized from this first application of electronic B2B including grately reduced labor and processing time and the great increase in accuracy. Personal Communications Networks requireing dedicated telecommunication, initially the only way for e-business, are still in use today and provide a secure means for exchanging electronic data. A value added network (VAN) is a type of communications network, semi-usually within the third, the categories of business information often agree on rules for the transmission and formatting of data.

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