There is a strong business case for integrating suppliers, customers and partners into a seamless supply chain. The advantages are dramatic, reducing time and costs while increasing quality. You've heard about it -- now learn the detailed business case, and how to do it, using XML, which is an ideal enabling technology. This presentation will start by explaining the overall concept and the business advantages of supply chains, and then focus on the key technical issues which must be solved to make this work. Although this impacts many industries, examples will be given from the automotive industry, which has been an early adopter of XML.