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What is e-commerce?

What is e-commerce?. What e-commerce is…. Business to business ( B2B ) trading where companies trade and exchange information using the World Wide Web. Business to consumer (B2C) trading where companies deal directly with customers through web pages, and ordering is carried out online.

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What is e-commerce?

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  1. What is e-commerce?

  2. What e-commerce is… • Business to business (B2B) trading where companies trade and exchange information using the World Wide Web. • Business to consumer (B2C) trading where companies deal directly with customers through web pages, and ordering is carried out online.

  3. There are many different types of products and services that are traded on line including books, CDs, cars, holidays, and insurance. • In response to e-tailing and e-trading, most businesses have now set up their own websites.

  4. Advantages Of E-Business Applications:

  5. Catalog flexibility and Online fast updating • Direct "link" capabilities to content information and visual displays already existing on other client web site. You can update your E-Catalog anytime, whether it's adding new products, or adjusting prices, without the expense and time of a traditional print catalog. • Extensive search capabilities by item, corporate name, division name, location, manufacturer, partner, price or any other specified need.

  6. Shrinks the Competition Gap • Reduced marketing/advertising expenses, compete on equal footing with much bigger companies; easily compete on quality, price, and availability.

  7. Unlimited Market Place and Business Access Which Extend Customer Base • The Internet gives customers the opportunity to browse and shop at their convenience and at their place. They can access your services from home, office, or on the road, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. • The Internet allows you to reach people around the world, offering your products to a global customer base.

  8. Lower Cost of Doing Business • Reduce inventory, employees, purchasing costs, order processing costs associated with faxing, phone calls, and data entry, and even eliminate physical stores. Reduce transaction costs.

  9. Eliminate Middlemen • Sell directly to your customers.

  10. Easier Business Administration • With right software, store inventory levels, shipping and receiving logs, and other business administration tasks can be automatically stored, categorized and updated in real-time, and accessed on demand.

  11. Frees Your Staff • Reduce customer service and sales support.

  12. Customers will love it • Gives customers control of sales process. Builds loyalty.

  13. More Efficient Business Relationships • Better way to deal with dealers and suppliers.

  14. Workflow automation • Shipping, real time inventory accounting system which adjusts stock levels and site, location availability instantaneously • Secured, automated registration verification, account entry and transaction authorization features • Automated RFP and RTQ features for vendor bid development and selection. • Banking and accounting features customized for pre-approved third party direct sales, vendor, consignment or internal transfer transactions.

  15. Secure Payment Systems • Recent advancements in payment technologies allow encrypted, secure payment online.

  16. Resources • http://www.isos.com.my/ecommerce/advantages.htm • http://www.ecommerce-awards.co.uk/case_studies/index.html • http://www.berr.gov.uk/ • http://www.dti.gov.uk/bestpractice

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