B2B, trade of products or services, between a manufacturer and a wholesale company often consists of big transactions as opposed to B2C which often consists of small transactions. 

The manufacturer is the supplier and the wholesale company is the customer in this case.

Being a supplier in this kind of B2B chain could be quite complex since there could be raw materials involved where these are put together in a production chain. Refined and if it is a producing organisation, the raw material is the product that somehow will be shipped to the customer who in his turn will refine or trade the product one step further.

The customer is in his turn often a supplier but could as well be performing directly against end customers.

Trading documents or information between the organisation is often sent through fax or some kind of integration message between procurement systems or directly between ERP systems.

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Today we start a B2B school.
It will be on basic level and contains 8 different sections where we will go through some theories, differences and news.
As you probably already seen its the same look as the work out school and thats because the structure of the schools and sections will be the same.

What we will go through in each of these section is the basics, what people is speaking about.

Section #1 - The basics
Section #2 - Manufacturer - Wholesale 
Section #3 - Wholesale - Retailer
Section #4 - Manual -
Section #5 - Automation - Integration
Section #6 - Single channel POP and POS
Section #7 - Multi channel and orchestration
Section #8 - Put it all together

This section will only contain the list above and a some definitions.
With B2B it is meant business between two companies of some size where the way to work is pretty alike but with different size of transactions, number of suppliers/customers and turnover
This school will be from a more technical, management and economic point of view so there will be no discussions about design details in applications.
Its expected, even though it is on basic level, that the reader has basic insight in supply chain or demand chain; integration like XML, flatfile, database or EdiFact and what POS , POP and orchestration means and if you dont then you will know this after the last section.

This is by no means the absolute truth, it is the view of the author and if there is errors in the text, please inform about it by mail to per@hrahk.se or in the comment form.

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When standing in front of customers or an audience of some kind its good to have some type of presentation tool to let them look at to emphasize what your saying. Its good in the "release some pressure on me by displaying good looking i

I have looked at two free (there is versions that cost money but in true Internet spirit I have looked at the free versions) presentations software (this is not a deep test, just a short information) as opposed to Powerpoint, Keynote.

Number 1 - Prezi - my new favourite
A zoom and pan presentation software where you build everything in one big image that you zoom and pan in. Quite amazing, easy to learn and capabilities that you need to do a fresh and stunning presentation in a new way.
Pro - new way to present everything in one big slide
Con - when jumping between different spots within the slide it can feel like I didnt know where I went in the image.

Number 2 - 280 Slides - good alternative
"Ordinary" slide presentation software. It knows what you need to do in a presentation in a good old fashion slide-by-slide way.
Pro - good old fashion slide-by-slide where the look and feel of the presentation is what most people are used to and uses.
Con - good old fashion slide by slide where the look and feel of the presentation is what most people are used to and uses.

Pro on both is that they are online, they come in free versions, they are capable and easy to use.

I think that it is depending on who you are going to do a presentation for (levelling) that should decide which software or technique to use but the two mentioned is really good and fun to use and whats really important is what you are presenting.

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