2018 Volume 3 Issue 2 Supplementary
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THE EFFECT OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT IN DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATION OF E-COMMERCE


Roghayeh ADELZADEH
Abstract

Increasing growth of Internet has brought significant effects in all aspects of human life; one of its most important applications is e-commerce development. E-commerce made fundamental changes in business patterns, including network economics composed of supply chain and E-commerce. In other hand, applying E-commerce in the present broad organizations causes challenges in addition to potential benefits. Knowing the challenges gives preventable resistance power to businessmen to think about solution of related problems and issues in advance. E-commerce doesn’t̕ mean only purchase and sale via Internet, but also it means an efficient commerce in all business levels, supply chain management (SCM) is cooperation, scheduling and controlling, production, storage and delivery of products and customer service, and it is the main pole and important element of E-commerce. Effectiveness of supply chain means having a sound product in a sound place in a sound time to cause in income and   decrease in expense. Some of major companies, particularly American ones have used Internet as a platform to influence the supply chain recently. Also, various improvements in information technology potentials have changed the figure of industry compared to the previous decade. Obtaining and performing information technology is one of the approaches implying distinct competitive character to companies and supply chain. The information technology acceptance and efficient performance of it could improve cooperation between the members of supply chain through rapid distribution and transmission of acute information and applying information systems and could increase supply chain̕ s efficiency.


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