However, the Internet has provided a means, compared to EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), in making transactions flawless, easier and more profitable.

"The Internet and the World Wide Web provide significant opportunities to make business-to-business more effective and efficient. The impact ranges from cutting the cost of paper and mailing, to shortening the time-to-market of products due to better supply-chain management"

Segev has provided the most appropriate explanation of just what the Internet is doing to business-to-business commerce.

The Cisco Systems Inc. website is a prime example of what can happen when the barriers of information, product and services are eliminated. [1]

Before the website the order and delivery system seemed almost primitive.

(2) 1 in 3 were rejected due to errors,

(4) orders, payments and reconciliation of returns against invoices can be tracked.

These marketplaces vary, from selling business products and services; e.g. Orderzone.com to non-production supplies e.g. Marketsite.net.

(1) maximum order-to-delivery is 3 days,

The expenditure on their previous system was down to their inadequate paper system and human error, both eliminated by their website ordering system.

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