Activity 1 E-business
Piotr Leżoń 21826 7MKDR-TI-SZL
Activity 1 E-business
Question 1:
e-sell: distributing products on the Internet, benefits: sold $8 billion in
goods and services, can grow up to $20 billion
e-buy: gaining the best offers from suppliers using a reverse auction
concept; benefits: in year 2001 saved $600 million
e-make: digitization internal processes inside company that earlier
required human intervention; benefits: forecasted over billion dollars of
cost out of operations this year
Question 2:
e-sell: e-crm, e-marketing, e-logistics, e-procurement, e-tail, egovernment;
e-buy: e-crm, e-marketing, e-procurement, e-government
e-make: e-government, e-logistics, e-marketing,
e-crm: is the electronic based version of Customer Relationship Management
e-marketing: is using the traditional methods of offline marketing on the
internet
e-logistics: processes necessary to transfer the goods sold over the
Internet to the customers
e-procurement: is the business-to-business purchase and sale of supplies
and services through the Internet
e-tail: consists primarily of the distributing, buying, selling, marketing,
and servicing of products or services over electronic systems
Question 3:
Activities included in value chain:
The "primary activities" include: inbound logistics, operations
(production), outbound logistics, marketing and sales, and services
(maintenance).
The "support activities" include: administrative infrastructure management,
human resource management, R&D, and procurement
Assigned e-Business components to value chain:
e-sell: marketing and sales, services
e-buy: inbound logistics
e-make: I think that we can assign there all of value chain activities,
especially production and all of “support activities”.