The Relationship between E-commerce and Supply Chain Management: An Executive Perspective

The manufacture industry had utilized e-commerce for supply chains management (thereafter SCM) as widely as it could have. The paper is to increase understanding of the determinants for adoption of e-commerce in SCM within the China manufacture industry, and to test the value of e-commerce in supply chain structure. This study proposes that there is a positive relationship between e-commerce and SCM and that firms with a seamless integration between e-commerce and SCM will be more successful. Content analysis of directorate´s report in annual report to shareholders of 138 manufacture firms was conducted to collect data. Data statistic methods were used to test the hypotheses to evaluate the relationship between e-commerce and SCM.