Inventory Control
Title: Inventory Control
Category: /Business & Economy
Details: Words: 1153 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Inventory Control
Category: /Business & Economy
Details: Words: 1153 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Supply chain management is a crucial area of B2B Electronic Commerce. It represents planning, organizing and managing your inventory online. Consider the following situation that illustrates how e-commerce has facilitated this management of the supply chain.
If a businesses stock is stored in a database that is connected to both the office and the warehouse, then at any given moment you can check your stock and update them. If this system is connected to
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with trading partners, there is no autopilot when it comes to managing the business. Technology makes information visible to enable better decision-making. The critical success factors for demand management, including collaboration with trading partners on demand plans, are people, processes, and technology, in that order.
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