E-commerce is various electronically instead of transaction complete face-to-face.
E-commerce is information technology application, to enhance the senior business relationship between trade partner.
E-commerce is a kind of information based business ideas, to improve the efficiency of trade.
E-commerce is a new mode of business. Various enterprises will be connected together through the Internet, the real and virtual cooperation of all possible. A chain of all enterprises can become an overall coordination of cooperation, enterprise employees can also involved in the business process of suppliers. Retailer of sale terminal can be connected with suppliers, no longer need to purchase department of artificial link, purchase orders will be identified and arrange delivery. An enterprise may also through a new way to provide better service to customers, this isn't big enterprise can realize the idea. The Internet for small and medium-sized enterprise provides a new development opportunities, and any enterprise may and worldwide suppliers or customers to establish business relations with you. The effective use of information become the new economic mode of enterprise competitiveness, electronic commerce is an important means of will become the basic trade and communications.

2, e-commerce classification:

Your soul to enterprise soul
Enterprise come to consumers
Your soul to Government agencies, they
Consumers to Government agencies, they come to

Enterprise of enterprise electronic commerce is between enterprises, such as a trading company through the Internet to its suppliers. Enterprise of enterprise electronic trading way has been a long history, such as through the network of EDI proprietary trading.

Business to consumer transactions to a large extent is electronic retailing. Online retailers with Web and rapid development of Internet, now have thousands of online shopping sites, provide all kinds of consumer goods. In the long run, can make the enterprise increase B2C and customer communication, to provide customers with more choices, provide more personalized service, but these are the traditional management mode can achieve.
Enterprise to government agencies including between enterprise and government agencies of all affairs transactions. Example: the government procurement information posted on the Internet, all companies can participate in the transactions. In addition, the government can also through electronic exchange ways of dealing with the customs and the enterprise business tax.

Consumers in the form of government agencies, but has never really government agencies for improving work efficiency and quality of service, will follow the commercial service mode, personal tax, social welfare insurance payments through the Internet.

3rd, the application of e-commerce development strategy:

E-commerce is to provide comprehensive business activities in support of the potential, regardless of the nature of the business and participants geographical position. The key for enterprises to implement e-commerce solutions and services to fully electronic. Current enterprise can choose the following development strategy:

Electronic market strategy. Through the electronic means to realize online sales shopping online, and online services, so as to expand the market, increasing sales and reduce the production cost.

Effective customer relationship management strategy. The relevant market and customer information sharing and unified management, analysis, thus effectively for the enterprise internal sales, marketing, customer service, providing comprehensive support etc.

Electronic trading strategy. The traditional business-to-business exchange tend to expend large enterprise resources and time, whether the sales and distribution to occupy or purchasing cost. Through the electronic trading online sellers can complete the whole process of sales, causes the enterprise to reduce the trade between the clerical work flow and many management cost, reduce the cost of enterprise management.

Supply chain management strategy. The supply chain management of supply and demand, is the raw material purchasing, production, inventory, market, and order, delivery, etc. Of the distribution management, Supply chain is enterprise's survival and the commercial circulation system, the management of the enterprise electronic commerce is the most important issue. Statistics show that enterprise supply chain enterprises can cost up to 25% of the operation cost.

4 and e-commerce superiority:

Electronic commerce provides virtual global trade environment, and greatly improve the level of business activities and service quality. New business communication channel is the obvious superiority, its advantages include:

(1) greatly improves the speed of communication, especially within the scope of international communications speed.
(2) the potential cost savings, such as electronic mail, and save communication postage electronic data interchange greatly saves management and personnel link costs.
(3) increase the customer and supplier contact. Such as e-commerce system makes the customer and supplier web site can understand the latest data, and other electronic data interchange (EDI) means cooperation between strengthened.
(4) to improve the service quality, a fast, convenient way of enterprise and provide information and customer needs of product of service.
(5) provides interactive marketing channel. That businessman timely feedback to get market, improve the work itself.
(6) provide 24-hour services, namely, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.
(7) is the most important thing, e-commerce enhanced the competitiveness of the enterprises.

5 and the development of e-commerce impact on society:

The development of e-commerce will bring to the whole society affect?

Electronic business affairs will change the way of business affairs activity. Past mentioned business, not in a bazaar to search the goods that he needs exhaustedly, is the associate at the negotiating table, buyers and sellers negotiates, and now can see through world-wide-web storefront, people