Under the e-business label (Electronic Business) there is a group of technologies and applications that aim to communicate, share information and supply services between different subjects (clients, suppliers, distribution channels etc.) who have the same business goals.
From the technological point of view, e-business involves the integration of legacy applications with partners’ ones: the extended company, according to analysts theory (virtual or online), foresees a “multidimensional reality characterised by multiple supply chains”.
In modern industry, production is divided into batches, and a chain of companies supply parts and components that merge to form the final product.
For any company, therefore, it is vitally important not only to manage sales by lots (subcontracting to order) but above all to manage the whole “value chain” because a change in a single link can immediately affect the whole production process.
Technology must ensure efficient communication but also respond to changes by rapidly adapting its infrastructure.
For an ERP the management of the Supply Chain is a strategic issue that raises new standard solution requirements for the format of information exchange (XML and Web Services).
E-business can be On Demand: some companies are interested in SaaS modality (Software as a Service).
IT analysts think that SaaS modality is a phenomena that will develop massively in the next few years, because:
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