Binding the Home System to a Stranger's

The integration of information and business functions is only the first step in effective supply chain management and application integration. Those individuals responsible for automating the supply chain must analyze the available information to determine the required courses of action. The best systems automatically trigger a corresponding transaction by evaluating conditions and providing decision makers with sufficient data to make effective decisions.

The flow of information must be unimpeded among all members of the supply chain. All communication barriers must be removed. The degree of difficulty in creating links to members—and opening this flow of information—ranges from very low to very high. ...

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