The influential factors of the adoption level of e-commerce in supply chain management in the new age of informantion and communication technology

E-commerce made supply chain management (SCM) technically viable and unleashed the practice of SCM.SCM is the integration of key business processes within a system of suppliers , manufacturers , distributors , retailers and customers and concerned with the management of business processes through the chain in the shortest time with the lowest cost. SCM expands the scope of the organization being managed beyond the enterprise level to include interorganizational relationships.

Keywords:

e-commerce , supply chain management (SCM) , Information technology &e-readiness