• Greater choice (greater product depth and global reach) • Faster fulfilling cycle time (ordering, shipping, billing) • Greater ability to supply information (inventory, order. status, [r]
Trang 1Electronic Commerce
Transactions
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Trang 2• What is e-commerce
• Implementing transactions over the internet
• Managing security risk
• Tools for implementing e-commerce
• Consumer and business markets for
e-commerce
Trang 3What is e-commerce
• The sharing of business information, maintaining business relationships, and conducting business transactions by means of telecommunication
networks
• E-business denotes a broad holistic concept
encompassing internet related technologies on
business functions, from human resource
management to marketing to corporate strategy
Trang 4Aspects of Traditional & Electronic
Commerce
Fulfillment Cycle step
(business-to-business) Conventional Shopping Traditional mail order (multiple single-medium
channel)
Electronic commerce (single multimedia channel)
Evaluate suppliers and
product options Shops, showrooms Magazines, flyers Portals, intermediaries, online catalogues Select & specify product Pick off shelf,
take to counter Order form, letter Online form, e-mailSend order to supplier - Fax, mail, telephone E-mail, EDI
Supplier checks inventory - Printer form Online database
Generate invoice - Printed form EDI or via credit card Ship product - Shipper Shipper or online
distribution Confirm receipt Printed form Printed form E-mail
Schedule payment Printed form Printed form EDI, online database
Trang 5Relative Significance of
E-commerce in Different Countries
Superpower United States
Contender Germany, United Kingdom, Japan, Canada Gateway Singapore, Benelux, Hong Kong
Sprinter Scandinavia/Nordic countries
Straggler France, Australia, Italy, South Korea, Spain
Trang 7Level of E-commerce
Sophistications
Level Characteristics
Primitive Static web pages or ‘brochurweare’
Searchable site with dynamic pages such as online catalogue Integration with operational databases, e.g inventory searching, package tracking, job posting
Customer transaction through the Internet, e.g selling products and services, buying and selling shares, applying for loans
Advanced Full electronic commerce (i.e integrated fulfillment cycle of
ordering, shipping, billing)
Trang 8Reasons for the Growth in
E-commerce
• Increase in demand for choice (product depth, global reach, price choices)
• Demand for information (detailed product
information, inventory, inventory, order status)
• Demand for interactive, online support
• Avoidance of travel and parking difficulties for
consumer e-commerce
• Elimination of time constraints (that is, opening
hours or delays between placing an order and
delivery)
Trang 9Benefits of E-commerce
• Lower purchasing overhead – especially for small
value and repeat orders
• Greater choice (greater product depth and global reach)
• Faster fulfilling cycle time (ordering, shipping, billing)
• Greater ability to supply information (inventory, order status, etc.)
• Lower cost than EDI
• Ease of swapping between suppliers greater than with EDI
Trang 10Benefits for suppliers
• A global reach, leading to more orders
• Reduced administration overhead (paperwork automation leading to a lower cost for each order made)
• Reduced asset requirement (physical properties for
companies with a retail network)
• Integration between back office and online ‘shopping’ activities
• Integration of online ‘shopping’ activities with database marketing
• Less need for distribution via channel (disinter mediation)
• Reduced working capital (inventory)
Trang 11E-commerce Enablers
• Internet standards
• Bandwidth development
• World Wide Web
• Diversification and proliferation of internet access
• Development of ‘off the shelf’ e-commerce products
Trang 12Inhibitors to E-commerce
• Technophobia
• Security fears
• Technology not user friendly
• Poor performance leading to slow download
• Inertia of habitual conventional shopping and purchasing
• Internet access still limited
• Entrenched interests (for example, distributors who may be bypassed)
Trang 13Payment system requirements
• Be secure
• Be easy for buyer and seller to use and
understand
• Be straight forward for banks to administer
• Be scalable across different currencies and
to different denominations
• Have a low costs for implementing
transactions
Trang 14Consumer Payment Systems
• Electronic token issuer – dependent on
digital certificates for security
Trang 15Non-credit of Pre-paid Systems
• Digital, virtual or electronic cash
• Microtransactions or micropayments such
as Millicent
• Debit cards
• Smartcards
Trang 17Requirements for Security
Trang 18Methods of Increasing Security
• Encryption
– Secret-key (symmetric) encryption
– Public-key (asymmetric) encryption
• Digital signatures
– Identifies individuals using public key
encryption
– Certificate and certificate authorities (CA)
– Secure Electronic Transaction
Trang 20– Shopcreator Stall supports up to 10 products
– IBM \Home page creator supports 15-500 items
– BT StoreFront supports a small to medium number of products
Trang 21• Integration with back-end systems
– Integration with stock control system to determine
availability is vital
– Integration with stock control system will allow price and product information changes to be updated rapidly – Integration with adequate fulfillment services
Trang 22Consumer & Business Markets
– Acceptable Internet access mechanisms
– Payment mechanisms perceived as convenient and secure
– An attractive and usable media interface
Trang 23The Commercial Environment
for E-commerce
• Legal status of banks
– Non banks are subject to less scrutiny and regulation
– Non-banks are at a competitive advantage as they do not carry the costs of the high level of registration
– Non-banks do not report to central bank which leads to
uncertainty and instability in the money supply
• Tariffs and taxation
– Value added Tax charged depending on location of supplier and consumer
– Export and import tax implications
– Services attract VAT according to where the supplier is located
Trang 24Contracts – consumer protection
• Location and identity of supplier and in case of contracts requiring payment in advance his address
• The main characteristics of the goods or services
• The price of goods or services
• Delivery costs
• The arrangement of payments, delivery or performance
• The existence of right of withdrawal
• The cost of using the means of distance communication, where it is calculated other than the basic rates
• The period for which the offer or price remains valid
• The minimum duration of the contract and whether the contracts for the supply of goods are to be permanent or recurrent