Supply Chain Integration
This trend impacts companies seeking to create partnerships within the supply chain by locking together suppliers, manufacturers, or other distribution channel members including customers. Supply chain integration includes both business-in-business functionality (offered by companies such as i2 Technologies) as well as business-to-business functionality (offered by companies such as SeeCommerce).
Wal-Mart was an early leader in the area of supply chain integration as it created partnerships with a limited number of suppliers and worked closely with their selected suppliers to drive distribution costs down at Wal-Mart while agreeing to long-term business contracts with selected suppliers. Besides linking directly to supply ...
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