A mid-2002 survey of more than 300 business executives found that many are now targeting collaborative commerce as a strategy for gaining competitive advantage and as a way to lessen many of the uncertainties of today's business environment.

Collaborative commerce affords companies a number of competitive advantages: improved revenue attainment; new capability; decreased costs to serve; faster cycle times; improved capital efficiencies; increased customer satisfaction; streamlined operations; enhanced flexibility and responsiveness; rapid fulfillment and improved reliability; and improved planning through better ecosystem visibility.

This Deloitte Research viewpoint shows that companies that use technology to enable cross-enterprise business processes and information exchange across their trade partners are as much as 70 percent more profitable than those that do not integrate with trading partners. And, they are much more likely to achieve superior performance in their revenue growth, market share, and return to shareholders. Learn more from the PDF file attachment below.

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