Businesses will be increasingly forced to move in real-time, as business to business interaction becomes more automated. (Cohen and Jordan, 1999)
There will be corporate structural change that may amount to the forming of virtual organisations. The associated cultural changes will raise problems of adjustment. Management of business relationships among customers, suppliers, and competitors will become more important and highly competent purchasing professionals will be needed to manage the value chain and measure its performance.
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