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A 7 page paper answering several questions about business-to-business (B2B) process integration. B2B process integration is an outgrowth of total quality management and the advent of just-in-time inventory management designed to decrease inventory levels while increasing internal efficiency. It began with the need to share information and over the past two decades has progressed to sharing processes as well. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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is an outgrowth of total quality management and the advent of just-in-time inventory management designed to decrease inventory levels while increasing internal efficiency. It began with the need to
share information and over the past two decades has progressed to sharing processes as well. What is B2B process integration? B2B process
integration is the practice of sharing information between companies that maintain some form of vendor-supplier relationship. A widget manufacturer is likely to share raw material inventory, production planning and
cost accounting information with a supplier of raw material; it is likely to receive the same kinds of information from its widget customers. The purpose is to allow each
organization to operate more efficiently by carrying only those inventories of items (either input items or finished product, depending on the location on the supply chain) it expects to need
in the short term. Doing this allows each organization to automate processes that formerly required a great deal of individual attention and effort to maintain, thereby reducing internal costs
while increasing internal efficiency. Gartner Group observed, "In the past, companies have integrated data. Now we are seeing the integration of applications. Above
and beyond that, we will move to the integration of processes" (Lawton, 2001). JIT has been common in industry for very nearly 20
years, and where companies needed to maneuver through complicated contortions, proprietary programming and other large problems in the past, today there is prepackaged software that essentially places business-to-business integration into
a box. Hewlett-Packard tells potential business partners that they can integrate with HP easily and quickly using one of six platforms, which are Ariba, SAP, Oracle, Commerce One, PeopleSoft
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