摘要

The new millennium is in the midst of explosive change witnessing intense competition amongst the domestic as well as the international players. Little wonder then, e-Supply Chain Management is fast emerging as a core strategy that organizations worldwide are adopting for sustainable business advantage. In this era of information, a firm's supply chain should operate at speed of thought and this is possible only by enhanced e-speed communications and information sharing with their critical partners. Internet and associated technologies promise to revolutionize inter-enterprise business processes by enabling seamless information exchange between business partners. The major shift has been from proprietary business processes towards a more collaborative model. This paper describes in a nutshell, how collaborative e-Supply Chain Management brings significant changes in strategic and tactical thinking of the firms for attaining competitive advantage by making it smarter and faster. This article also discusses the challenges to the e-supply chain and talks of future of the e-supply chain services.