WEEK 6: Business-to-Business Activities: Improving Efficiency and Reducing Costs

CHAPTER 5:

In this chapter, you will learn:
-How businesses use the Internet to improve purchasing, logistics, and other support activities

-How the Internet facilitates the implementation of outsourcing and offshoring business strategies

-How electronic data interchange works and how it has evolved using Internet technologies

-What supply chain management is and how businesses are using Internet technologies to improve it

-How the various types of online business marketplaces operate to make B2B transactions easier and more efficient

READING MATERIAL

Read the below article from Business of Fashion and be prepared to discuss how the mentioned technologies are advancing the retail experience for the customer and internal business.

5 Technologies Transforming Retail in 2018 _ Fashion-Tech _ BoF