Stivison--E-commerce Has Arrived

Check your calendar, because 2001 is only next year.

Not just GM, but Ford is making similar projections, also in excess of $80 billion of annual purchasing.

Overnight, the 400-lb. gorillas of American basic industry have redefined the rules, the timing and the extent of business-to-business electronic commerce. They have chosen where they want to sit—and where they have chosen is right in the middle of the Internet. They have decreed that proprietary, one-company-to-another electronic commerce solutions are as outdated as mechanical adding machines. Companies that want a piece of the automotive business pie must participate in the Internet-based systems.