For example, your company cannot streamline its supply chain to connect the customer and supplier if your internal ordering system can't communicate with the warehouse system. Unfortunately, the greater the opportunity for ROI, the more difficult the task will be. The High Cost of B2B Many companies have been only slowly undergoing e-business transformation partially because of the costs involved. ROI is a significant issue, but ensuring ROI from a B2B project requires fixing existing production system problems that no one wants to tackle. Usually those legacy fixes are time consuming and have little or no payback until they become impediments to the B2B project.
Dirty data is one common example of such a fix.
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