E-business is the use of IT and particularly the Internet to improve the way businesses operate.These technologies can:increase the efficiency of your business systems streamline your relationships with suppliers and customers increase the speed, flexibility and efficiency of the production process expand the range of what can be produced .
IT solutions can also be applied in other areas of manufacturing businesses:intranets and resource management software improve the co-ordination of the production process extranets and accounting systems can be used to link your order book with production, dispatch, invoice generation and stock replenishment systems warehousing and stock control systems can be streamlined online procurement and supply chain management software can lower costs and facilitate a just-in-time approach to production - see the page in this guide on just-in-time production
The e-business in manufacturing information centre. This section of our site is designed to provide an insight into how the manufacturing industry is adopting and making use of some of the new e-business technologies.We intend to grow this information resource over time & would welcome any contributions from industry.
Benchmark undertakes an annual survey of e-business and supply chain management issues in UK manufacturing. Based on the opinions of nearly 2,000 senior managers spanning the IT, sales, procurement, manufacturing and design functions across UK industry. This study represents the most important and comprehensive view of what is really going on in industry today. Based on the opinions of the industry itself rather than on consultants in ivory towers this information represents a virtually unique source.
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