Briefly describe the operation process of e-commerce?

I. Definition of E-Commerce

With the development of electronic technology and the Internet (Internet network), information technology as a tool was introduced into the commercial and trade activities, resulting in electronic commerce (Electronic Commerce abbreviated EC or Electronic Business abbreviated EB). Generally speaking, e-commerce is a business activity carried out on the platform of computer network (mainly referring to the Internet network) in accordance with certain standards. When an enterprise connects its main business directly with its staff, customers, suppliers and partners through Intranet, Extranet and Internet, the various activities that take place are e-commerce. There are various definitions of e-commerce. The following are some organizations, governments, companies, academic groups and other summary of the more comprehensive definition, introduced here for your reference: United Nations Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD): E-commerce is an open network that contains business to business (Business to Business), business and consumer (Business to Consumer) business to business and business to consumer. UNITRAL: E-commerce is the use of electronic data interchange (EDI) and other means of communication to enhance the functioning of international trade. Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC) Draft Report of the Working Committee on Electronic Commerce: E-commerce is the use of electronic communications as a means of economic activity by which products and services of economic value can be advertised, purchased and settled. Such transactions are conducted in a manner that is not influenced by geographic location, financial resources or ownership of retail channels, and public and private enterprises, companies, governmental organizations, social groups of all kinds, citizens in general, and entrepreneurs are free to participate in a wide range of economic activities, including agriculture, forestry, fisheries, industry, and private and governmental services. E-commerce enables products to be traded worldwide and offers consumers a wide variety of choices. International Organization for Standardization (ISL/IEC) UN/ECE Memorandum of Understanding on EB: Electronic Business (EB) is a generic term for the exchange of information content and requirements between businesses and between businesses and consumers. IBM: The concept of electronic business (E-Business) consists of three parts: Intranet (Intranet)

Extranet (Extranet)

E-commerce (E-commerce) It emphasizes the commercialization of applications in a network computing environment, not just the combination of hardware and software, and not just the usual narrow sense of transaction. E-commerce emphasizes the commercialization of applications in a networked computing environment, not just the combination of hardware and software, and not just the narrower sense of E-commerce that emphasizes transactions, but the combination of buyers, sellers, vendors, and their partners on the Internet, the Intranet, and the Extranet. It also emphasizes that these three parts are hierarchical. Only the first to establish a good Intranet, the establishment of better standards and a variety of information infrastructure, in order to smoothly expand to Extranet, and finally expand to E-commerce. Hewlett-Packard Company (HP): HP put forward the concepts of electronic commerce (EC), e-business (EB), e-consumption (EC), and the electronic world. Its definition of electronic commerce (E-Commerce) is: a way of completing commercial trade activities through electronic means, electronic commerce enables us to complete the exchange of goods and services, etc. by means of electronic transactions, and is the link between merchants and customers. It consists of two basic forms: e-commerce between merchants and e-commerce between the business community and final consumers. Definition of electronic business (E-Business): a new type of business development means, through the Internet-based information structure, so that the company, suppliers, partners and customers, the use of electronic business **** enjoy the information, E-Business not only can effectively enhance the implementation of the existing business process, but also be able to make a rapid response to the market and other dynamic factors and adjust current business processes in a timely manner. More importantly, E-Business itself creates more and newer business models for organizations. Definition of E-Consumer: People use information technology for entertainment, learning, work, shopping and a series of other activities, so that more and more family entertainment from the traditional TV to the I nternet change. General Electric Company (GE): E-commerce is the conduct of business transactions through electronic means, divided into business-to-business e-commerce and business-to-consumer e-commerce. E-commerce between enterprises and enterprises: EDI as the core technology, value-added network (VAN) and the Internet (Internet) as the main means to realize the electronic business processes between enterprises, with the enterprise's internal electronic production management system, to improve the efficiency of the enterprise from the production, inventory, to the circulation (including materials and funds) of each link. E-commerce between enterprises and consumers: The Internet is the main means of service provision, realizing the public consumption and service provision and the related electronic payment methods. U.S. Government: E-commerce is a variety of business activities conducted through the Internet, including: advertising, trading, payment, services and other activities, global e-commerce will involve countries around the world. To summarize, we can say that: from a macro point of view, e-commerce is another revolution in the computer network, is in the electronic means to establish a new economic order, which not only involves electronic technology and business transactions itself, but also involves such as finance, taxation, education and other aspects of society; from a micro point of view, e-commerce refers to a variety of commercial activities with the ability of the entity (production enterprises, trading enterprises, financial institutions, government agencies, individuals). From a micro point of view, e-commerce refers to all kinds of commercial activities carried out by various entities with commercial activities (production enterprises, commerce and trade enterprises, financial institutions, government agencies, individual consumers, etc.) by using the network and advanced digital media technology. Although so far there has not been a unified and clear understanding of e-commerce, even e-commerce can be traced back to the commercial and trade activities in the form of Morse code dots and lines transmitted in wires. The development of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI-Electronic Data Interchange) technology in the seventies can be regarded as e-commerce in the true sense of the word, but its complexity and non-universality have seriously constrained the possibility of its full-scale promotion. The real rapid development of e-commerce is the Internet communication standards and HTML standards supported by the IT industry, become the mainstream of e-commerce after the revolutionary changes brought about by the use of electronic means of business activities, which opened up a new era.