E- commerce
Tralarin-Team
EDI
Electronic Data Interchange
EDI can be formally defined as 'The transfer of
structured data, by agreed message standards,
from one computer system to another without
human intervention'.
There are four major sets of EDI standards:
 The UN-recommended UN/EDIFACT is the only international
standard and is predominant outside of North America.
 The US standard ANSI ASC X12 (X12) is predominant in North
America.
 The TRADACOMS standard developed by the ANA (Article
Numbering Association) is predominant in the UK retail industry.
 The standard used within the European automotive industry
All of these standards first appeared in the early to mid 1980s.
B2B
Business-to business (B2B)
Both sides of the transaction are
businesses, non-profit organizations, or
governments.
example
An example of a B2B transaction is a
chicken feed company selling its
product to a chicken farm, which is
another company
B2C
Business-to consumer (B2C)
E-commerce transactions where customers
are individual consumers. The two main
challenges faced by B2C e-commerce are building
traffic and sustaining customer loyalty
example
An example of a B2C e-commerce is
Amazon.com
e-procurement
Procurement auction
Also called a reverse auction, is a tool used in industrial
business-to-business procurement. It is a type of auction in
which the role of the buyer and seller are reversed
In an ordinary auction buyers compete to obtain a good or
service. In a reverse auction, sellers compete to obtain
Business.
online auction
An auction is a process of buying and selling
goods or services by offering them up for
bid, taking bids, and then selling the item to
the winning bidder.
Online Auction companies have opened up their
applications to third party application developers to
extend the capabilities and increase revenue.
API interfaces were developed usingXML which
enable third party developers to build applications
that use the back-end of the online auction.
example
ebay.com
online catalogue
 Information
about products made available
in electronic form via the Internet.
 Often incorporate voice and video
examples
apple store :
http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/esstore?type=consesDIR&qprm=126878
ebay:
www.ebay.com
C2C
Consumer-to consumer (C2C)
Consumers sell directly to each other. The sites
are only intermediaries, just there to match consumers.
They do not have to check quality of the products being
offered.
example
A common example is the online auction ,for
example ebay.com, in which a consumer posts
an item for sale and other consumers bid to
purchase it; the third party generally charges a flat
free or comission.
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C2B
Consumer-to business (C2C)
It is an electronic comerce business model in which
consumers (individuals) offer products and services to
companies and the companies pay them.
example
The increasing use of open-source applications by
companies is also a concrete C2B example.
e-commerce
eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products
or services over electronic systems such as the Internet
and other computer networks.
Electronic commerce is generally considered to be the
sales aspect of e-business. It also consists of the
exchange of data to facilitate the financing and payment
aspects of the business transactions.
e-business
Electronic Busines
E-business may be defined broadly as any business process that relies
on anautomated information system. Today, this is mostly done with
Web-based technologies.
It involves business processes spanning the entire value chain:
electronic purchasing andsupply chain management, processing
orders electronically, handling customer service, and cooperating with
business partners.
Electronic business methods enable companies to link their internal
and external data processing systems more efficiently and flexibly, to
work more closely with suppliers and partners, and to better satisfy the
needs and expectations of their customers.
examples
e-shops, e-malls, e-auctions…
ebXML
Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language
is a family of XML based standards sponsored by OASIS
and UN/CEFACT whose mission is to provide an open,
XML-based infrastructure that enables the global use of
electronic business information in an interoperable, secure,
and consistent manner by all trading partners.
ebXML
This picture shows ebXML in action :
e-commerce benefits
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Improved, lower cost information
Lower entry costs
Available 24/7, virtually anywhere in the world
Availability expands markets for both buyers and
sellers
Decreases the cost of paper-based information
Reduces the cost of communication
Provides richer communication than traditional
means
Fast delivery of digitized products
Increased flexibility of location
e-commerce limitations
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Lack of system security, reliability and standards
Lack of privacy
Insufficient bandwidth
Integrating e-commerce software with existing
software is still a challenge
Lack of trust in unknowns on the other end of the
transaction, integrity of the transaction itself, and
electronic money that is only bits and bytes