And it's only just started. Company A competing against Company B, Supply Chain X competes against Supply Chain Z, with all the partners optimizing the overall chain performance. Tomorrow, it will be the Worldwide World Wide Web. Bear in mind that more than half of the world's manufacturing takes place in Asia. Instead of companies going to the Web, the Web comes to the companies.
Wireless technology puts information and communication where the business is.
Just about every merger in the telecommunications industry now centers on wireless technology. Today's B2B is relatively static. Tomorrow's will be in real time, with all components of the logistics value chain and company channels being updated in terms of transactions, customer information, catalogs, inventory and shipments. None of this is gee-whiz or futurism. The next generation of services is sure to push those percentages lower.