In the Philippines

INTRODUCTION In recent years, the expansion of trade relations among Asian countries and the heightened business activity of North American and European corporations in Asia have created new markets and introduced more efficient methods of managing the supply chains. The technological advances in information and communications technology have given rise to more innovative forms of business transactions. The surge in the popularity of the Internet has stimulated the growth of electronic commerce applications not only in the more advanced regions of Europe and North America but also in a number of Asian countries like the Philippines.