Supply chain management often requires the integration of inter-and-intra organizational relationships and coordination of different types of flows within the entire supply chain structure. Inter-company integration and coordination via information technology has become a key to improved supply...

Foreword by Prof. John L. Hennessy (Stanford University, California, USA) and Prof. David A. Patterson (University of California at Berkeley, USA). - Preface . - Introduction. - PART I - An Infl ection Point for Enterprise Applications . - 1 Desirability, Feasibility, Viability - The Impact of...