Bob Travica
MIS 2000
Information Systems for Management
Instructor: Bob Travica
Class 17
Strategizing with IS: Electronic Commerce
Updated 2014
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Outline
• Electronic commerce (E-commerce)
• Business-to-Consumer (B2C) E-Commerce
• Business-to-Business (B2B) E-Commerce
• Summary
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Concept of E-commerce
• E-commerce is the area of commerce that is conducted via
computer networks and information systems.
• E-commerce started among businesses (supply markets), and
expanded into consumer markets when Internet moved to
businesses and homes in the mid-1990.*
• Moving into B2C or B2B is an important strategy leading to
increasing market share, integrating supply chains, improving
financial results.
Supplier
Organization
sell
buy
Supplier
Organization
Retailer/
Producer
Web store
offer, sell
demand, buy
Consumer
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Domains of E-commerce
sell
Supplier
Organization
buy
Supplier
Organization
B2B
offer, sell
Web storefront
demand, buy
B2C
Consumer
• Two main domains:
- Business-to-Consumer (B2C), retail on the Internet via
Web storefronts: Chapters.com - music, electronics; online
sales process (outsourced)* is an addition to physical store “click and mortar”.
- Business-to-Business (B2B), buying & selling b/w firms
• via e-marketplaces/e-markets (Covisint, Freelancer.com)
• directly (linking via EDI**, private nets or Internet; Dell,
Cisco & shipping industry)
• Either can use mobile devices (mobile commerce)
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Business Models for B2C E-commerce
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Web Retail (also called Web Storefront, Web Store, Online Store)
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Sells many goods & services online *
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Example: Amazon.com – “pure click”, no physical stores
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Amazon started as a bookstore and initiated the trend of web
storefronts.
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Amazon was not profitable for years. Amazon captured large market
share, increased product & service offerings, and became profitable.
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Amazon keeps improving business processes (sales, inventory) that
are largely electronic (rested on various IS).
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Amazon’s customers are consumers with access to Internet around
globe.
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Uses Interactive Marketing and Personalization.**
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Business Models for B2C E-commerce
• Portal: Initial point of entry to Web, provides Internet search
service for free; advertising revenues, may sell some services*
& content (Google, Yahoo)
• Customer: Global Internet user
• Revenue: Advertising, some search services, mobile tech.
(Google)
• Broker: Middleman models mediating between buyers and
sellers**
• Customer: Global Internet user
• Revenue: Fixed fees, Referral fees (advertising)
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E-commerce Expands Customer Data
Customer
Product
ProductID
Category
Maker
Customer ID
CustomerType
IP-Address
Tel-Number
Catalog Search
Customer ID
Terms Searched
Customer Comparison
Customer Movement
Customer ID
Web Pages Visited
Screen Items Clicked
Tracking
consumer
behavior
Match Product Purchased
Support to
cross-selling
Other Online
Purchases
ProductCategory
New data, do not exist in classical marketing
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B2C E-commerce Benefits
Product catalog
Browse products
Buy
Web Storefront
Pay
Billing & Payment systems
Customer profiling
Offering
Sales sys.
Clearing houses,
Banks
• Boom 1994-2000, crash in 2001; pure vs. hybrid models
• About 15% of total retail sales in U.S. 2012, somewhat less in Canada *
• Firm’s benefits:
- Global reach & 24/7 sales
- Savings on physical stores
- Direct marketing (customer profiling via clickstream
or search tracking systems*; personalized Web storefronts)
- Cross selling (automatic matching of customer profiles via systems**)
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B2C E-commerce Costs
• Firm’s costs:
• Consumer’s costs:
- IS investments
- IT have-nots
- Delivery, Logistics
- Payment security
- Legal boundaries
- Competition increase
- Privacy
- Payment anxiety
- Product testability & return
- Invisible customer
- Electronic branding
See footnote…
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B2B E-Commerce
• Larger part of e-commerce (1/3 of all B2B sales in US; ~5% in CA*)
• Complex processes (inter-org.), connections, & systems
• 2 business models:
1. Direct model
Production
Scheduling
Inventory
Buyer
Purchasing
Bank
2. Mediated
model
Sales
Supplier
E-market
Bank
Bank
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Mediated Model: E-Market
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Also called e-Exchange, e-Hub, Market maker
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Can be controlled by Buyer or Seller
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Within an industry (plastics, metals, etc.)
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Across industries (Covisint, B2BQuote, more)
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Revenue: Membership fee, Transaction charge, Financial services,
Product catalogue creation, Order fulfillment
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B2B E-Commerce Benefits & Costs
• Firm’s Benefits:
- Larger market
- Savings from efficiencies in supply chain
- Better coordination in supply chain
- Dynamic pricing (auctions)
- 24/7 business (via e-marketplaces)
See footnote…
• Firm’s Costs:
- Increased competition
- Volatile business relationships (partner
switching)
- Costs of private networks
- Costs of intermediaries (e-markets)
- Legal boundaries (e.g., anti-monopoly
pressures on buyers-driven e-markets)
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Summary
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E-commerce is buying and selling via electronic means, and these can
transpire between businesses (B2B; older segment), and between
business and consumers (B2C, newer segment).
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Models of B2C e-commerce include portal, web store, and broker.
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Two main models of B2B e-commerce are direct company-to-company
and e-marketplace.
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B2C e-commerce enriches the customer profile.
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B2B e-commerce is bigger part of e-commerce and has certain future.
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Both B2B and B2C has certain benefits and costs.
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