e-Commerce

e-Commerce is a traditional business task enhanced by Internet technologies.

Most of today's market leaders are those companies who had the foresight to recognize the changing landscape in today's modern business world. The new business "battle ground" has been very cruel to those companies that have fallen behind the information curve. Similar to the way modern / sophisticated weaponry have changed the art of war, developments in the IT arena have forever changed the way companies do business. Customers, as well as suppliers, have come to demand and expect a high level of data services and business-to-business collaboration facilities from its' partners.

The following excerpts from a recent issues of e-BUSINESS ADVISOR will have one consider the impact e-Commerce has on one's business,...

• "It's apparent customers prefer doing business over the Web, particularly for routine tasks, such as checking product inventories and ordering routine parts. The brief history of e-business has already proven that companies first to offer online business alternatives in their corner of the ecosystem will grab customer loyalty and win marketshare."
• "Even if you don't see it directly in your market, among your customers, the probability is high that the Internet is already in your "business ecosystem",…Chances are your customers are being trained to prefer Web-based business processes to traditional ways of doing business by someone in your ecosystem."
• "…websites are now designed to automate customer relationships and migrate heretofore human-intensive tasks to the web, such as order taking, inventory availability checking, and shipping status."
• "e-business squeeze play" - Here are the basic steps in the playbook. A market leader migrates a significant number of customer relationships to the Web. By doing so, the leader takes substantial costs out of doing business. As a result, the leader has healthier profit margins, which in turn enables that company to drop prices or invest more in development - either of which puts competition in a defensive position. Hence, competitors are forced to respond, if for no other reason than the margin pressure created by the cost savings gained by the leader."
• "Clearly, for routine business processes, such as checking product inventories, reordering routine parts and products, and querying customer service resources, many customers would rather use the Web than deal with humans and telephone hold queues. Human interaction isn't eliminated, but instead is reserved for important, but less frequent procedures, such as price negotiating, guaranteeing delivery times, and troubleshooting unique problems."
  

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