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IBM Case Study: The Bekins Company | 20040913030001 |
IBM |
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Bekins has been providing high-quality transportation and distribution services across North America for more than a century. Bekins also provides logistics and fulfillment for E-tailers as well as brick-and-mortar retailers who offer direct-to-home delivery for their customers. The challenge was to have a better B2B application. The solution was the launching of its first ever Web services application, the Tonnage Broadcast Exchange (TBE). TBE will enable Bekins to, dramatically grow its brokerage business (whereby it hands off shipping orders to agents or independent third party transportation companies).
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The Potential of Electronic Commerce | 20040302121443 |
Montgomery Research |
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Early participants had the money and expertise to develop robust business to business electronic commerce solutions. The resulting industry designed standards were often set too high for many smaller businesses.The large companies are successful because of the higher levels of automation in their supply chains and will be looking either for incremental cost efficiencies or, more likely, a new web enabled business model through electronic commerce.So this whitepaper describes the ways to integrate business to business e-commerce models. It also focuses that whether these global e-commerce model will comply with the mandated standards?
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