June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
10h 54m
English
The use of electronic commerce technologies to improve the efficiency of supply chains has been widely promoted in the retail and general merchandizing industry. This business-to-business EC makes use of standardized product numbering, bar coding and EDI as its essential core technologies (Johnston, 1998, 1999; Mak, 1998). Many large retail chains now make use of EC with their larger, technologically sophisticated suppliers to control a significant proportion of their replenishment transaction value. To that extent, EC can be thought to have reached significant adoption levels in the ...
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