This study examines a new F2B market segment that has sprung from a swiftly-emerging, e-manufacturing paradigm. Termed the 'missing link' within B2B communities, F2B technologies now illuminate enterprise networkability 'from the factory floor to the executive's door'. In the rush to correct flawed supply chains and achieve competitive agility, companies have searched for the strategic building blocks and technological clarity with which to devise their new millennium strategies. The Factory-to-Business market segmentation outlined in this study accomplishes this and more, as manufacturers designing supply chains must, within the next two to four years, attain competency in the implementation of time-to-market and manufacture-on-demand technologies. Manufacturing agility for telecommu