...PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT OF E-COMMERCE TECHNOLOGIES IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT This empirical study assesses the organizational impact of using eCommerce technologies in supply chain management utilizing the following constructs: system quality, information quality, system usage, and user satisfaction. A sample data set was collected from maquiladoras in Juárez, Mexico to investigate relationships among these constructs. A SEM analysis was undertaken, using AMOS, on the dataset. The analysis provided statistically significant relationships among some constructs. Keywords: Supply Chain Management, eCommerce Technologies, e-Enabled Supply Chain Management INTRODUCTION The use of eCommerce technologies (the Internet/World Wide Web, intranets, and extranets) in supply chain management (SCM) is a relatively recent phenomenon. Accordingly, very few studies have been conducted to date on the extent to which eCommerce technologies have been utilized in SCM, and, more importantly, on whether or not e-enabled supply chain management (eSCM), with the use of such technologies, has brought about improvements in managing supply chains. DeLone and McLean [1] proposed interrelationships among six IS dimensions in what is referred to as the ‘DeLone and McLean (D&M) IS Success Model’. The six dimensions in the D&M model are (1) system quality, (2) information quality, (3) system usage, (4) user satisfaction, (5) individual impact, and (6) organizational impact. While DeLone and McLean...
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...Supply Chain of Snapdeal Subject : Supply Chain Management Submitted By: Arushi Bhasin & Vidhi Nagar • Objective Of the assignment : To study the supply chain, flow chart, agility and case study of an e-commerce website . E-commerce website chosen: Snapdeal A brief about E-Commerce: E-commerce can be defined as the conduct of business communication and transactions over networks and through computers or as the buying and selling of goods and services, and the transfer of funds, through digital communications. It can include all inter-company and intra-company functions (such as marketing, finance, manufacturing, selling and negotiation) that enable commerce. e-commerce usescommunications such as electronic mail, EDI, file transfer, facsimile,video conferencing, workflow, or interaction with a remote computer. e-commerce has also become associated with solutions and tools such as portals, e-marketplaces, e-auctions or virtual inventory. The last few years have seen a dramatic increase in the capabilities of e-commerce as hundreds of millions of dollars were invested in building new solutions and in fighting a marketing war for apparent first mover advantages. At a simplisticlevel, supply chains are typically made up of three major flows – physical, financial and information. e-commerce has the capacity to affect all three. . Physical flows can be affected by using information to avoid physical movements and to make product information available throughvirtual ways....
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...E-Business Strategy 1 Internet Marketing Plan for River Island E-Business Strategy 2 Table of content Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………..3 Impact of E-Business strategy on Business…………………………………………………..4 Expectation of Internet Customers……………………………………………..……4 Integration with the Existing business processes……………………………………..5 Analysis of Logistics Processes………………………………………………………5 Resources required for Website maintenance and support…………………………...5 Implementation Strategy……………………………………………………………………..6 Planning for Website designing……………………………………………………....6 E-marketing and Promotion strategy……………………………………………..…..7 E-supply Chain Management Strategy…………………………………………..…...7 Integration with the Existing System…………………………………………..…….8 Protection of Business………………………………………………………………..………8 Risk from E-business and measures to control…………………………..…………..9 Future Development in E-Business………………………………………………..…………9 Mobile technology and impact of XTML on E-business………………….…………9 Impact of supply chain integration and e-business on international competencies…10 Conclusion and Recommendation…………………………………………………………..10 References…………………………………………………………………………………..11 E-Business Strategy 3 Introduction With the increase enhancement in the field of technology, it has been considered essential by the businesses to implement such technology in their business processes. Further, the increasing demand from the customers regarding the better quality of products and ...
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...What is e-commerce? The key components to establishing and providing a successful e-commerce solution within an e-business environment. CONTENTS CHAPTER | PAGE | Introduction & Aims/Objectives of assignment. | 3 | 1. What is e-commerce? | 5 | 2. E-environment | 6 | 3. Establishing an e-business. How to support an e-business? | 9 | 4. E-business systems: infrastructure of hardware and software | 14 | 5. E-Logistics: Supply Chain & Procurement | 17 | 6. E-Security: Protecting and e-business & its infrastructure | 19 | 7. E-Marketing: How to push your e-commerce business using marketing tools online. | 21 | 8. E-CRM: Managing customer relations online | 24 | 9. The future of e-business | 29 | Conclusion | 31 | Bibliography | 34 | Introduction: Through this assignment I will be discussing the use of e-commerce in modern retailing. This essay aims to explore: What e-commerce is, the infrastructure needed to establish an e-business and the wider impact of e-commerce on the traditional business and retail environment. These aims will outline the main effects of e-commerce on a business. These will be achieved through: * Outlining the origins of e-business * Assessing the external impact of e-commerce on the environment & traditional retailing. * Examining the implementation and sustainability of an e-commerce business: Systems, Structures & Costs. * The impact of e-commerce on the logistics...
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...Emergence of e-business and supply chain management enables informational technologies to fuse with logistic. In this fast growing global economy, e-logistics has been appeared to overcome the informational barriers in the supply chain. This essay indents to bring an interpretation of the “old economy” logistics with "new generation" logistics. Firstly, the essay explains the definitions of the e-logistics and also analyses the differences between e-logistics and traditional logistics. INTRODUCTION Oscar Morgenstern proposed logistics as a discipline in science economy. Until the Second World War, logistics was considered as a science using for military services. Now logistics is considered as a civil science. The developmental stages of logistics can be categories as military logistics, business logistics and e-logistics. Among these stages, e- logistics can be considered as the latest stage of this industry. Nowadays, e-logistics has been discussed as electronic logistics, which uses the web technology as inevitable tool to administer some of the sectors of logistic industry or the whole process (Wang Wei, 2003); according to Prof. Zhai Xuewei, e-logistics is the combination of logistics supporting e-commerce and the electronic technology for logistics (Sun Chao, 2002). In this juncture, e-logistics can be regarded as e-logistic commerce, in which information flow is combined in the form of electronic technology, network technology and automation. Therefore, e-logistics...
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...JUST DO E-BUSINESS Nike’s shift towards the digital world Source: Google images Student ID: 1202654 Module: IB3B00 Word count: 2186 Description of Nike and its market Nike.inc is the world’s leading designer, marketer and distributor of athletic footwear, apparel, equipment and accessories as they claim it themselves. Nike, which was initially Blue Ribbon Sports, started off in Beaverton, Oregon in the USA in 1964 (where their HQ are still located today) and officially became the Nike brand in 1970. (NIKE, Inc. – About NIKE, Inc., 2014) They have been constantly increasing its range of products and services in all types of sports. Nike.inc is the owner of three other brands: Converse.inc, Hurley International LLC and the Jordan Brand. (NIKE, Inc. Reports FY2013 Q4 and Full Year Results, 2013) However in this report we will solely focus on the Nike brand. Nike’s revenues from its operations in 2013 were $25.3 billion. Other financial information can be found at http://investors.nikeinc.com. Nike, Adidas Group (including Reebok) and Puma are positioned as the key players in the global sports apparel market. Nike is believed to be the global leader in the athletic footwear market, where its main focus lays, with an estimated worldwide market share of 20% in 2012 and with most of its sales coming from North America (44% in 2012) and Western Europe. (19% in 2012) (Trevis Team, 2013) 2 Executive Summary This report focuses on the impact of the Internet on Nike’s business...
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...ELECTRONIC SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT: SOME LATEST ISSUES AND PRACTICES Nizar Hussain M1 and Dr. Suresh Subramoniam2 Lecturer Riyadh Community College King Saud University Saudi Arabia E-mail: nizarhussainm@yahoo.co.in 1 2 Assistant professor College of Business Administration Prince Sultan University Saudi Arabia E-mail: sureshsubramoniam@gmail.com Abstract: Supply chain management (S CM), a management method to optimize internal costs and productivities, has evolved as an application of e-business technologies. SCM is a powerful strategic function capable of radically improving customer value propositions by the reengineering of intranet and internet-enabled collaborative channel partnerships. Latest developments in information technology have propelled the e-Supply Chain Management (e-SCM) concept to newer dimensions. In the past, neither markets nor products changed much over time, enterprises that gained initial superiority could leverage on, considerable resources and process knowledge, mature distribution channels, advertising and marketing clout, and the newest technologies, to maintain that lead. Today, it is evident that there is no such thing as sustainable competitive advantage and also that all advantages are temporary. The cause for the rapid acceleration in the erosion of competitive advantage in almost all the businesses can be traced back to the rapidly developing newer technologies. Still more deadly is the sudden growth of newer business models that have...
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...Proposal E-Business in Supply Chain Management Submitted by: Atif Rasheed Instructor Name: Qazi subhan Bahria University Islamabad Campus Department of management Science (Graduate Studies) Title: E-Business in Supply Chain Management Short Statement of Problem: The web is having a significant impact on how firms interact with each other and their customers. Past stumbling blocks for supply chain integration such as high transaction costs between partners, poor information availability, and the challenges of managing complex interfaces between functional organizations are all dissolving on the web. how the web is changing supply chain management It specifically explores the role of e-procurement as an example of how e-business concepts have been applied to one key SCM activity, namely purchasing and procurement. Significance: Nothing has rocked the young field of supply chain management like the emergence of the Internet. While the management of information flows have always been a key aspect of supply chain management, the rapid growth of web-based information transfer between companies, their suppliers, and their customers has decidedly increased the importance of information management in creating effective supply chains. In the past ten years, e-business, as an overarching business concept, has received increasing attention from academics and practitioners alike. The term ‘e-business’ was introduced by IBM in 1997....
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...implications of electronic commerce for logistics and freight transport Markus Hesse * Department of Earth Sciences, Geographic Sciences and Urban Research, Free University of Berlin, Malteserstr. 74-100, 12249 Berlin, Germany Accepted 24 June 2002 Abstract The paper considers the significance of electronic commerce (e-commerce) for freight transport, logistics and physical distribution, regarding both business to business and business to consumer commerce. The possible implications of e-commerce are analysed in the broader context of structural change, going beyond narrow assessments that overstate the significance of e-commerce and its potential to make freight traffic more efficient. The main argument of the paper is threefold: first, most recent analyses of freight transport and logistics implications of e-commerce are overstating the current relevance of e-commerce applications on the one hand, and neglecting the influence of the underlying structural change in the entire logistics system on the other. Second, conventional analyses of certain efficiency benefits of ecommerce are probably too optimistic, whereas its negative effects are underestimated at the same time. E-commerce is likely to support longer transport distances and often higher delivery frequencies, increasing demand for land, due to the establishment of new transhipment points (distribution centres) and, to a certain extent, a shift towards truck and air freight transport modes. Third, e-commerce and IT are interrelated...
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...E-Business The days of driving to a store to purchase something is not the only option. E-business has changed the way people shop on a regular basis. He remembers when he was a child his parents calling the number in the JcPenney’s catalog and explaining what they wanted to order, nowadays it is simple as a couple of clicks. This paper will discuss how e-business and evolved and compare and contrast the differences and limitations between e-business and e-commerce as they relate to supply chain management. He will begin by explaining the evolution of e-business. Evolution of E-Business The idea of e-business did not happen overnight, but once the Internet evolved it opened a new world to the way people shop daily and how businesses operate. People can sit in their living rooms and shop for anything and everything; without ever leaving the comforts of their own home. Businesses have come to the realization that the Internet is a very powerful tool and if they want to reach a new level they must look at evolving into the area of e-business. E-business started with major corporations; Wal-Mart, Sears, Target, and other retailers, but has evolved into some grocery chains offer customers the ability to shop for groceries online and have them delivered to their homes. He and his wife have taken advantage of how e-businesses have evolved. Where they use to stand in lines for Black Friday sales, they sit in their living room and do all the shopping from their computer, receiving...
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...COURSE WORK- PROCTER & GAMBLE Zeroing in on the first moment of truth Procter & Gamble, a world leader in consumer packaged goods, sells nearly 300 brands in more than 160 countries. It has sales of $40 billion a year and 130 manufacturing sites around the world. P&G measures consumer satisfaction at two levels, which it calls the two “moments of truth.” The first moment of truth occurs when the consumer reaches the shelf and finds that the desired product is, or is not, available. This is a critical moment, because if the product is not immediately available, the consumer usually moves on to buy a rival product. The second moment of truth depends on the buyer’s satisfaction when consuming the product. This, too, has a crucial impact on consumer loyalty, but is beyond the scope of this case study. Detailed consumer surveys in July 2000 told P&G that in 55% of cases (75% for promotional items), consumers were not satisfied when they looked on the shelf for the products they wanted. The exact product variant, in the size and packaging the shopper sought, was available less than half the time. Something had to be done. Responsibility for having the product on the shelf every time a shopper wants it used to be seen as purely a matter for the retailer. If retailers got their forecasts wrong and ordered the wrong volumes, the...
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...B2B commerce and explain its scope and history. • Explain the procurement process, the supply chain, and collaborative commerce. • Identify the main types of B2B commerce: Net marketplaces and private industrial networks. • Explain the four types of Net marketplaces. • Identify the major trends in the development of Net marketplaces. • Identify the role of private industrial networks in transforming the supply chain. • Explain the role of private industrial networks in supporting collaborative commerce. Key Terms total inter-firm trade, p. 770 B2B commerce, p. 770 Internet-based B2B commerce (B2B e-commerce), p. 771 automated order entry systems, p. 771 seller-side solutions, p. 771 electronic data interchange (EDI), p. 772 buyer-side solutions, p. 772 hub-and-spoke system, p. 772 vertical market, p. 772 horizontal markets, p. 772 B2B electronic storefronts, p. 772 Net marketplace, p. 772 private industrial networks, p. 773 procurement process, p. 775 supply chain, p. 775 direct goods, p. 776 indirect goods, p. 776 MRO goods, p. 776 contract purchasing, p. 776 spot purchasing, p. 776 multi-tier supply chain, p. 777 legacy computer systems, p. 778 materials requirement planning (MRP) system, p. 778 enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, p. 778 supply chain management (SCM), p. 779 tight coupling, p. 779 supply chain management (SCM) systems, p. 782 collaborative commerce, p. 783 e-distributor, p. 790 e-procurement...
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...to provide insight to the CEO and senior management of Classact the competitive advantage that can be gained by implementing IS and IT strategies within the organisation. Specifically this report will be discussing about supply chain management, customer relationship management and E-commerce as three very innovative solutions that are very crucial for the continued existence and increased profitability of Classact. We will be discussing on how other organisations who have implemented customer relationship management, supply chain management and E-commerce have been able to forge ahead of their competitors, increase their profits and maintain that same one to one relationship with the customers. Finally recommendations have been made as to how Classact can forge ahead of their competitors instead of falling prey to bankruptcy by lagging behind in IS and IT innovation. Today it has become critical for businesses to adopt e-commerce in order to gain a competitive advantage and meet customer needs. It's biggest advantage being the accessibility to customers, suppliers and buyers all over the world by the medium of Internet and various networks. It has also resulted in cost reduction in areas like marketing, processing and storage of information. It has proven to be increase efficiency of the business. E-commerce works in collaboration with another crucial area for businesses 'Supply Chain Management'. 'Supply Chain' is an entire chain of facilities and various distribution channels...
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...changing their methods and strategy which includes execution of Information Technology (IT) and Supply chain management (SCM). On the other hand, a critical literature review is to be carried out with the insight into the role of Information Technology (IT) and Supply chain management (SCM). This report provides the applications of Information Technology (IT) and E-commerce in general as well as in selected industry. For this report, the selected industry is Volvo. The applications of information technology and changes in supply chain using e-logistics are discussed elaborately in this report. This report also clearly draws about the supply chain strategy used in Volvo. In addition, use of electronic commerce is well discussed followed by the uncertainties faced by the Volvo and the overcoming of uncertainty by Volvo. This report ends up with the conclusion. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 APPLICATIONS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 3 APPLICATIONS OF ELECTRONIC COMMERCE 4 BENEFITS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN SUPPLY CHAIN 5 LITREATURE REVIEW ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 6 CHANGES IN SUPPLY CHAIN USING E-LOGISTICS 7 ABOUT VOLVO ...
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...6 MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM 4. Discuss in detail the activities involved in development of e-commerce based Information System in an organization. STRATEGIES One of the first challenges involved in moving to online commerce is how to compete with other e-commerce sites. A common problem in addressing this challenge is that e-commerce is often analyzed from a technical standpoint, not a strategic or marketing perspective. E-commerce provides several technical advantages over off-line commerce. It is much more convenient for the buyer and the seller, as there is no need for face-to-face interaction and Web-based stores are open 24 hours a day. Also, e-commerce purchasing decisions can be made relatively quickly, because a vendor can present all relevant information immediately to the buyer. These factors lend themselves to a transactional approach, where e-commerce is seen as a way to reduce the costs of acquiring a customer and completing a sale. In contrast, most successful e-commerce Web sites take a relational view of e-commerce. This perspective views an e-commerce transaction as one step among many in building a lasting relationship with the buyer. This approach requires a long-term, holistic view of the e-commerce purchasing experience, so that buyers are attracted by some unique aspect of an e-commerce Web site, and not by convenience. Since consumers can easily switch to a competing Web site, customer loyalty is the most precious asset for an e-commerce site...
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