What industry is e-commerce?

E-commerce, referred to as e-commerce, refers to the trading activities and related service activities in the form of electronic transactions on the Internet, Intranet and VAN (ValueAddedNetwork), which is the electronization and networking of all aspects of traditional business activities.

E-commerce includes electronic currency exchange, supply chain management, electronic trading market, online marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management and automatic data collection system. In this process, the information technologies used include: Internet, extranet, e-mail, database, electronic directory and mobile phone.

Extended data:

E-commerce will expand and extend from the current online transactions focusing on goods and services to all aspects of industry operation. Within the enterprise, e-commerce elements will penetrate into enterprise management and internal business processes; In the field of external industrial clusters, the development of e-commerce will activate and drive the development of a series of upstream and downstream industries such as settlement, packaging, logistics and distribution, and location services.

With the increasing number of netizens in China, the consumption patterns of online shopping and bank card payment are increasingly popular, and the market share is also growing rapidly. Various types of e-commerce websites will emerge one after another.

Baidu encyclopedia-e-commerce