Ebusiness exchange between homecenter buyers and wood products suppliers

eBusiness is the application of Internet-based technologies for conducting business. It includes eCommerce (i.e., the actual transaction activities) as well as other business-oriented applications such as logistics, order entry, information sharing, and transmission of information between exchange p...

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Published in:Forest products journal 2002, Vol.52 (1), p.38-43
Main Authors: VLOSKY, Richard P, WESTBROOK, Tom
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied sciences
Bias
Building materials industry
Business information services
Business to business commerce
Cost control
Data collection
Electronic commerce
Electronic data interchange
Evaluation
Exact sciences and technology
Forest products
Forests and forestry
Hardware stores
Home center stores
Information services
Information services industry
Information sharing
Internet
Management
Miscellaneous
Online services
Order entry
Plywood
Polls & surveys
Polymer industry, paints, wood
Questionnaires
Research methodology
Response rates
Statistical analysis
Studies
Suppliers
Telecommunications
Telecommunications and information theory
Teleprocessing networks. Isdn
United States
Websites
Wood
Wood products
Wood. Paper. Non wovens
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Summary:eBusiness is the application of Internet-based technologies for conducting business. It includes eCommerce (i.e., the actual transaction activities) as well as other business-oriented applications such as logistics, order entry, information sharing, and transmission of information between exchange partners. This study examined eBusiness exchanges between homecenter retailers and wood products suppliers in the US from the homecenter perspective. In 1999, 78% of respondents had a website, compared to around 34% of forest products manufacturers in the US in the same year. Seventy-one percent of respondents said that they planned to develop or improve their website over the following 12 months. Respondents used an array of business applications facilitated by the Internet.
ISSN:0015-7473
2376-9637