What is the connotation of e-commerce

What e-commerce is all about is the migration of all parts of the business value chain to the Internet. Therefore, it is believed that e-commerce originated from advertising and marketing and e-tailing, but it is by no means only e-tailing or online shopping.

E-commerce has the potential to change the traditional advantages and competitive patterns between regions and cities, providing new possibilities for leapfrog development in backward regions. The traditional competitive advantages of regions and cities are geographic location, transportation environment, natural resources, and institutions, especially the geographic location and institutional advantages are the most obvious. But e-commerce provides a cross-regional online national unified market, wiping out the institutional differences between regions, geographical location is not important.

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Advantages of E-commerce:

1. Reducing Transaction Costs: First of all, through the network marketing activities can improve marketing efficiency and reduce promotional costs; Secondly, e-commerce can reduce purchasing costs, because with the help of the Internet companies can seek the most favorable prices in the global market suppliers, and through the relationship with the Internet, the company can reduce the cost of purchasing, because the Internet can seek the most favorable prices in the global market. Preferential prices for suppliers, but also through the supplier information **** enjoy, reduce the intermediate links due to inaccurate information brought about by the loss.

2, reduce inventory: information technology-based e-commerce can change the enterprise decision-making inaccurate and untimely information problems. Through the Internet can be market demand information to the enterprise decision-making production, at the same time the enterprise production information can be immediately passed to the supplier in time to supplement the supply, so as to achieve zero inventory management.

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