Business to business standard and supply chain system framework in virtual enterprises

Electronic commerce provides a revolutionary way of doing business. It is changing the traditional commerce activities and forming a new pattern of international commerce, running by establishing dynamic virtual enterprises. Due to its potential advantages, specifically in business to business fields, EC has become an active area recently, with many standards and solutions defined, proposed, and emerged. The paper introduces concepts of electronic commerce and virtual enterprise with the trade circle, then discusses recently proposed, developed and applied Internet B2B standards, including OBI, ICE, RNIF&PIP. It focuses on the relation of supply chain with enterprises and partners. It also presents an application framework of supply chains in trade partners of virtual enterprises.