CHICAGO - U.S. manufacturers generated record business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce sales in 2019, growing their combined web sales by about 21% to $430.0 billion, according to the 2020 B2B Manufacturing Report, a newly released research report from Digital Commerce 360.
But then came the global COVID-19 pandemic. In seemingly just a few months, the coronavirus shut down big portions of the $21 trillion U.S. economy and changed the course of B2B ecommerce and manufacturing.