Enterprises whose business processes are automatically linked to those of their suppliers and/or customers

This means sharing information electronically on the Supply Chain Management under the following aspects: - exchanging all types of information with suppliers and/or customers in order to coordinate the availability and delivery of products or services to the final consumer; - including information on demand forecasts, inventories, production, distribution or product development; - via computer networks, not only the internet but also other connections between computers of different enterprises; - excluding normal e-mail messages manually written. In January of the survey year.