What is the future role of e-commerce?

1. E-commerce electronizes and digitizes traditional business processes. On the one hand, replacing real 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.

2. The openness and globalization of e-commerce have created more trade opportunities for enterprises.

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.

Extended data

E-commerce is a direct product of the explosive development of the Internet and a brand-new development direction of network technology application.

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.

Characteristics of e-commerce:

1. complete

E-commerce can standardize the workflow of transaction processing and integrate manual operation and electronic information processing into an inseparable whole, which can not only improve the utilization rate of manpower and material resources, but also improve the rigor of system operation.

2. Security

In e-commerce, security is a crucial core issue, which requires the network to provide end-to-end security solutions, such as encryption mechanism, signature mechanism, security management, access control, firewall, anti-virus protection and so on. This is very different from traditional business activities.

3. Coordination

Business activity itself is a coordination process, which requires coordination between customers and companies, manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers. In the e-commerce environment, banks, distribution centers, communication departments, technical services and other departments need to cooperate, and the whole process of e-commerce is often completed in one go.