What are the advantages and disadvantages of e-commerce?

Internet itself has the characteristics of openness, globality, low cost and high efficiency, which has also become an inherent feature of e-commerce, greatly surpassing the value of e-commerce as a new form of trade. It will not only change the production and management activities of enterprises themselves, but also affect the economic operation and structure of the whole society. The "electronic" technology platform based on the Internet provides a vast development space for traditional business activities, and its outstanding advantages are incomparable to traditional media means.

★ 1. E-commerce electronizes and digitizes traditional business processes. On the one hand, replacing physical logistics with electronic flow can greatly reduce manpower and material resources and reduce costs; On the other hand, it breaks through the limitation of time and space, so that trading activities can be carried out at any time and any place, thus greatly improving efficiency. Internet has changed the traditional concept of space, and a virtual space or virtual society has emerged, which is different from the actual geographical space. Individuals, companies or institutions in any corner of the world can be closely linked through the Internet to establish virtual communities, virtual companies, virtual governments, virtual shopping malls, virtual universities or virtual research institutes to share information, resources and intelligence.

★ 2. The openness and globality of e-commerce have created more trade opportunities for enterprises. The Internet transcends national boundaries and time and space. No matter where you are, no matter day or night, as long as you click the mouse with your browser, you can log on to the website of any country or region at will and communicate directly with the person you want to communicate face to face.

★ 3. E-commerce enables enterprises to enter the global electronic market at a similar cost, making it possible for small and medium-sized enterprises to have the same information resources as large enterprises and improving their competitiveness.

★ 4. E-commerce redefines the traditional circulation mode, reduces intermediate links, and makes direct transactions between producers and consumers possible, thus changing the whole social and economic operation mode to some extent.

On the one hand, e-commerce breaks down the barriers of time and space, on the other hand, it provides abundant information resources, which provides more possibilities for the reorganization of various social and economic factors, thus affecting the economic layout and structure of society. 2 1 century is an information society, information is wealth, and the speed of information transmission is a matter of life and death for businesses. Internet is favored by merchants because of its fast information transmission speed. It can be said that people in the southern hemisphere can learn about what just happened in ten minutes, a few minutes or even a short time through the Internet. The internet has really turned the whole earth into a global village.

★6. Interactivity: Through the Internet, businesses can communicate, negotiate and sign contracts directly, and consumers can also reflect their feedback suggestions on the websites of enterprises or businesses, and enterprises or businesses should timely investigate product categories and service quality according to consumers' feedback to achieve benign interaction.

Based on the above advantages, as a new business model, e-commerce appeared in front of people in the last decade of the 20th century. Compared with traditional trading methods, e-commerce has many advantages, for example, it can break through the geographical and time constraints, so that people in different regions can freely transmit information, exchange needed goods and trade. Its quickness, rapidity, freedom and low exchange cost are loved by people. Why not? Problems encountered ★ 1, the network itself has limitations.

A consumer ordered a new type of women's backpack online. Although the quality is good, the style is not as good as that on the Internet. Many consumers report that the goods they actually get are not the goods they fancy online. What's going on here? In fact, in the process of reducing a three-dimensional object into a flat picture, some basic information of the commodity itself will be lost; Only part of the information of manually selected commodities is input into the computer, so people can't get all the information of commodities from the Internet, especially the most vivid and intuitive impression of commodities.

★2. The search function is not perfect enough.

When shopping online, a big problem users face is how to find what they want in many websites and buy it at the lowest price. The search engine looks very simple: a user enters a query keyword, and the search engine searches the database according to the keyword and returns the most suitable web page link. However, according to the recent research results of NEC Research Institute and Inktomi Company, there are at least 654.38 billion pages on the Internet that need to be indexed. Existing search engines can only index 500 million web pages. Still half can't be indexed. This is mainly not because of technical reasons, but because online merchants want to protect the privacy of commodity prices. Therefore, when users go shopping, they have to search from one website to another until they find products with satisfactory prices.

★3. Users' consumption concept can't keep up.

A big difference between e-commerce and traditional business methods is that the two sides of the transaction do not meet, and the transaction is virtual, which requires a better credit environment for the whole society and the concept of credit consumption is deeply rooted in people's hearts. The development momentum of e-commerce in western countries is relatively good. An important reason is that the western market order is relatively good, the credit system is relatively sound, and the concept of credit consumption has been generally accepted. But in China, on the one hand, people's awareness of credit consumption is very weak, and the use of credit cards is far from universal; On the other hand, people are afraid to buy fake and shoddy products when they go to the mall, let alone on the Internet where they don't know how far away they are.

★4. The security of the transaction cannot be guaranteed.

The security of e-commerce is still the main factor affecting the development of e-commerce. Due to the rapid popularization of the Internet, e-commerce has aroused widespread concern and is recognized as the most potential new growth point of IT industry in the future. However, how to ensure the security of data transmission has become one of the most important factors in the popularization of e-commerce when conducting transactions on an open network. The survey company conducted an online survey on the application prospect of e-commerce. When asked why they don't want to shop online, most people's problems are fear of being attacked by hackers and losing credit card information. Therefore, some people or enterprises are unwilling to use e-commerce for fear of security, and security has become the biggest obstacle to the development of e-commerce.