Introduction:
Currently, Business-to-Consumer Electronic Commerce, Business-to-Business Electronic
Commerce and Electronic Business are widely adopted as new strategies to gain more
business advantages over the competitors. Nevertheless, the success in deploying such
electronic business applications does not rely only on business contribution but involves
many business factors as well. Electronic commerce has become one of the most popular
tools to gain competitive advantages over other organizations. It is being used to develop
new markets, interact with customers, communicate with trading partners, and primarily to
increase sales.
Implementation & Deployment:
• Readiness of Trading Partners
To succeed in business-to-business electronic commerce, the corporate organizations must
consider the readiness of their appropriate trading partners to get involved in
business-to-business electronic commerce. The invited trading partners must be ready to
participate in term of infrastructure and business. For business, trading partners getting
involved should prepare their business to get the benefits from participating.
• Information Integration
The organizations must prepare themselves for being business-to-business electronic
commerce companies. Maybe the organizations should change their information culture
within the organizations to be ready for integrated one. Information regarding supply chain
and selling chain must be integrated into a standardized format in order to share
information among trading partners.
• Completeness of Application
The organizations must examine their business in order to determine the appropriate
business-to-business electronic commerce application. Some organizations may be fit for a
particular application, not a full- scale one. The business-to-business electronic commerce
