E-Commerce - Business to Business (Emerging Industry Overview)

This paper provides an overview of the business-to-business e-commerce industry, primarily in the United States.

Emerging Industry Overview: E-Commerce: Business to Business

Industry Snapshot

Following the dot-com fallout of the late 1990s and early 2000s, a smaller core of key business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce players remained in such major industries as retail, automotive, chemicals, technology, insurance, and metals. By the late years of the first decade, it was abundantly clear that B2B e-commerce continued to be an important business tool for both large companies and small businesses. It also remained a powerful economic force.

Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce offers a range of practical benefits for companies, including increased efficiency, improved responsiveness to market shifts, reduced costs, and...

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