Collaborative Commerce is the focus of the operation of enterprises that make reasonable arrangements enterprises from internal resources into reasonable arrangement "virtual enterprise" of resources. Faced with a number of enterprises of all suppliers, partners, customers, distributors, and optimize a complete and mutual coordination of production and distribution plan. Collaborative Commerce is the highest form of e-commerce.

Collaborative Commerce rose in the late 1990s, it is Internet-based, mainly for the manufacturing industry, including product development, design, procurement, production, service, full life-cycle data management, helping enterprises to complete cross-boundary, cross - industry cooperation, enhance the overall effectiveness of collaboration products.

With the emergence of e-commerce, people are simply concerned about the ability of this transaction to the attention node metastasis business process, which involves the entire supply chain business collaboration between the parties. Within an enterprise, there are the operational synergies between the different indicators and the business synergies between the objectives, as well as various resource constraints synergies. This is mainly reflected in the plan between the different departments and at all levels, as well as between different cycle plan synergies between the plans, such as more synergies between shareholders, inventory, production, marketing, financial synergies between the sectoral plans, the company strategic, tactical, operational level of synergy between programs, short and long-term plans, such as the Cooperative. These all need some tools for coordination and unity. For example, the collaborative logistics management to be able to identify different clients, different routes order, scheduling, the best plan for transportation; collaborative production management can be the basis of the existing deployment of manpower, material resources and equipment, such as the ability to optimize the scheduling, so Regular delivery, and so on to achieve. Collaborative includes two levels of meaning: a meaning of the enterprise internal resources coordination, inter-departmental coordination between business, different business indicators and targets as well as synergies between the various resource constraints synergies. Such as inventory, production, marketing, financial synergies between these all need some tools for coordination and unification another meaning refers to the synergy of internal and external resources, which means that the whole supply chain synergies, such as customer demand, supply, production, procurement, and the synergies between the transactions.