Table 1 provides an overview of the various applications supporting supply chain management today. This table was developed after an extensive review of literature, both academic and practitioner, web sites of major vendors, and interviews. Interviews with both supply chain and IT infrastructure managers in several companies in different industries validated our classification of the three objectives of the existing applications: to run the business, manage the business, and support collaboration with business partners. Participants felt that this framework was more compelling for organizing supply chain management applications than traditional classifications of information technologies by organizational structure, functional area, or support provided (Turban, McLean, & Wetherbe, 2001).