E-Commerce
Introduction
Consumers with access to the Internet are turning their backs on shopping the traditional way. In fact, now a day they frequent real-world stores or malls less often now that they can easily purchase a growing variety of items online.
What keeps some consumers loyal to the local store? The ability to touch, see, try out and instantly take home the products they want, but e-commerce makes it to buy quickly and easily when online.
Besides enabling a firm to access to a bigger pool of potential customers world-wide, the internet technology has boosted the efficiency of the organizations. Through innovative process, relevant modification and adoption of the information sharing system, it simplifies organizational hierarchy, reducing resource costs by shortening management chains and breaking down organizational boundaries between customers and suppliers. The integration of the internet technology and computer aided manufacturing improves the quality, speeds up the production cycles and dramatically reduces the need for stock-holding. This has exerted strong pressures on the intermediaries and traditional business sectors such as insurance, financial services, travel packages and brokers.
Task 1:
The web site that I have chosen to analyse and assed was amazon.com. These web site was among the leading e-business markets. I have been in these web sites before the assignment given to us. But I have not seen it in such big aspect of it and asses it with the seven unique features of e-commerce technology.
Amazon.comBasics
Amazon.com sells lots and lots of stuff. The direct Amazon-to-buyer sales approach is really no different from what happens at most other large, online retailers except for its range of products. You can find beauty supplies, clothing, jewelry, gourmet food, sporting goods, pet supplies, books, CDs, DVDs, computers, furniture, toys, garden supplies, bedding and almost...
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