Supply Chain B2C/B2B

E-commerce is quickly becoming a large part of the world's daily business functions. While this term E-commerce refers to all online transactions, there are two typical ways that a company will do business on the World Wide Web, one: business-to-business (B2B) or two: business-to-consumer (B2C). The supply chains for both are very different and the companies that are conducting either business need to make sure they are well aware of this. All business conducting internet business need to make sure that they are delivery product effectively, reliably, and economically doing so will make the company a strong differentiator in their respected industries. The need for this was discovered in the 2000 holiday season when many consumers were asking the question "where is my package, I ordered off the internet the other day?" (Ascent 2001).…