B2B和EDI的区别

最佳答案 - 由投票者2007-12-07 09:22:07选出

B2B(business-to-business)指的是企業對企業透過電子商務的方式進行交易，相對於B2C（Business-to-consumer）的銷售方式是企業對顧客。舉例來說，一間賣免洗餐具的工廠，若它主要的出貨對象為餐廳，由餐廳提供免洗餐具給使用者，這就是B2B的模式。B2B也泛指企業間的市場活動，不侷限於最終交易對象的認定。另外，B2B也指企業間定義業務型態的方式。譬如有一間公司是以影印機的租用業務為主，這就是一種B2B型態的銷售組織。B2B著重於企業間網絡的建立、供應鏈體系的穩固。B2C需要靠規模經濟的方式，吸引購買、降低售價來增加利潤，而B2B不用靠規模，而是靠企業間網絡的建立穩固其銷售。目前中國有名的B2B網站有阿里巴巴 (公司)、慧聪、中国制造网，而在台灣較大的B2B網站有manufacturers、commerce、taiwantrade等大型網站可供參考。

An inter-company, application-to-application communication of data in standard format for business transactions. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a set of standards for structuring information that is to be electronically exchanged between and within businesses, organizations, government entities and other groups. The standards describe structures that emulate documents, for example purchase orders to automate purchasing. The term EDI is also used to refer to the implementation and operation of systems and processes for creating, transmitting, and receiving EDI documents.

Despite being relatively unheralded, in this era of technologies such as XML web services, the Internet and the World Wide Web, EDI is still the data format used by the vast majority of electronic commerce transactions in the world.

Generally speaking, EDI is considered to be a technical representation of a business conversation between two entities, either internal or external. Note, there is a perception that "EDI" consists of the entire electronic data interchange paradigm, including the transmission, message flow, document format, and software used to interpret the documents. EDI is considered to describe the rigorously standardized format of electronic documents.