ICT and e-Business in the Pulp, Paper and Paper ... - empirica

Pulp, paper and paper products
The industry driven initiative in the P&P industry to establish the papiNet® standard for
B2B exchanges (see Section 4.1) can be seen as a major effort to improve the
compatibility between systems by agreeing on a common "language" for B2B exchanges.
However, as shown in Section 3.3.1, the standard is not yet widely diffused among
smaller companies. Furthermore, the parallel initiative of the consumer goods industry to
deploy GUSI as the dominant standard for trade with their suppliers raises a concern
whether it might be a burden for P&P SMEs to adapt their systems for the use of two e-
standards in parallel (see Section 5.2.2 – policy implications).
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