Authors

Jack Cook

Description

Inefficiencies exist throughout the supply chain. Everyday business operations are often tedious and time-consuming. Transactions may be significant delayed due to limitations associated with asynchronous communications. Electronic marketplaces provide a means for improving supply chain efficiency. They enhance liquidity by permitting a large number of buyers and sellers to connect with each other. Estimates indicate that B2B trade exchanges with facilitate $600 billion to $3 trillion (U.S. revenues) in trade by 2003 (Tumolo, 2001). Exchanges are found in a variety of industries including aerospace, agriculture, automotive, banking, chemical, education, energy, food, hospitality, paper, and steel...

Date of creation, presentation, or exhibit

2002

Comments

Note: imported from RIT’s Digital Media Library running on DSpace to RIT Scholar Works in February 2014.

Document Type

Conference Paper

Department, Program, or Center

Accounting (SCB)

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

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