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Electronic commerce as a new model of business operation plays an important role in promoting global economic development. Electronic commerce is changing many aspects of logistics, and promoting the development of logistics greatly. At the same time, if there is no modern logistics, business activities will become difficult. For enterprises, the right logistics model chosen is necessary. Therefore,...
This article focuses on research in the physical value chain and virtual value chain co-existence of economic environment, how to use third-party e-commerce service platform for the promotion of inter-firm cooperation, third-party e-commerce platform to solve the bottleneck problem, relying on the Internet for the first time to build a complete connection entities in the value chain and virtual value...
This paper describes an approach for the development of a logistics cloud as a “vertical cloud”. In contrast to a generic or “horizontal cloud” components of the cloud platform are custom tailored to the specific needs of the logistics application area. The NIST cloud services model serves as a basis for structuring logistics specific cloud service requirements. In the next step the domain specific...
Improving the management of reverse logistics coupled with developing its potential value has become the major difficulty confronted with main number of E-commerce enterprises. The paper aims to analyze the factor of reverse logistics under the E-commerce condition, and supply several suggestions on how to circumvent and revolve reverse logistics problems. Analysis on the problem is good for firm...
Modern e-business brought new marketing techniques required in today's competitive market. Affiliate marketing proved itself as one of the most successful and in this paper basic concepts and ideas of affiliate marketing as an internet marketing technique are described. Its importance and growth related to the development of internet and ebusiness are also presented. In order to describe the idea...
In the world of new economy, great changes are taking place in the living environment of enterprises. Consequently, traditional enterprise financial management is greatly challenged in terms of its objectives, models, concepts and contents. The present paper, after a careful analysis of different kinds of drawbacks of traditional enterprise financial management, puts forward innovative ideas to adapt...
e-commerce brings more market opportunities and higher efficiency to the enterprise, and save the transaction cost for the enterprise. At the same time the distribution channels in e-commerce have a conflict with the traditional. Based on the analysis of channels in the e-commerce and in the traditional, explained the reasons of the conflict, and puts forward the corresponding management strategy.
In the competitive electronic commerce market, how to evaluate and improve the qualify of its service has become a focus problem. The quality evaluation model of electronic commerce service based on the AHP-FUZZY combines both qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis, forms the overall evaluation framework through the use of evaluation indexes, which draws the comparable and analyzable indexes...
Nowadays, expansion of insurance companies provides competitive market, in which several companies participate in tenders with huge price. as a lot of tenders are held based on electronic form, tender documents security is taken into consideration as high level technical issue. In this paper, decision making algorithm based on AHP for suitable authentication function in e-tender of insurance companies...
Virtual world provides online environments where participants engage in socialization, entertainment, education, and business. There are also huge opportunities for electronic commerce in the near future. Several studies have explored the impacts of virtual worlds on realities. However, is virtual world really virtual? How does real world influence activities in virtual worlds? This paper attempts...
Currently online reverse auction (e-RA) is often used in procurement. However, winner determination problem (WDP) is NP-hard problem and practical use is difficult. As a research focus, `bundling' is an effective way to cut down the complexity of WDP for e-RA, and often applied in practice. Although there are some qualitative researches in this field, quantitative bundling is still a problem. This...
Online business is growing rapidly for small sized companies in retail industry, but the small companies' online manufacturing services are less developed. The main reason is that the manufacturing process is very complex. And there are a lot of manufacturing parameters to be chosen. Before the manufacturing process, a deep communication between the client and the manufacturing engineers is necessary...
It has been an increasing trend for companies to migrate their businesses onto or publicize themselves on the Internet. Business process reengineering (BPR) is applied to migrate the business processes of the supply chain onto the Web. Such migration may cause some of the processes merged together, minimized or transformed into other processes within a supply chain. Therefore, careful planning for...
In this paper, by analyzing the service Ecosystems concept, we see Service ecosystems as a special business ecosystem. First, service ecosystems are market places for trading services in the business sense and involve actors from different legal bodies, Second service trade involves the following steps: service discovery, service selection, service contracting, service consumption, monitoring, and...
In traditional business environment, the business enterprises emphasize the meticulous division of labor, entrusting the real object resources, realizing internal value of enterprises with the artificial means and traditional ways. But the traditional enterprises value chains have already displayed some shortage in the new development environment. The development of E-commerce produced a series of...
Keyword auctions were widely used by search engines to sell the advertisement on the result pages. To date, the most widely used auction mechanism is wGSP (weighted and generalized second-price). This paper presents an optimal pricing strategy under wGSP for advertiser to bid keywords for their websites. In brief, the issues we addressed here were: (1) what is the wGSP mechanism, how does it work?...
This paper describes how scrum method was customized for outsourced e-commerce software projects. While the waterfall process was used in the past, outsourced projects experienced more delays and failures than the ones conducted in-house. To overcome such limitations, we decided to tailor the scrum method on three aspects: First, we produced a table that explains roles and responsibilities of project...
Emotions play a key role in any purchasing process even more when it is done through web portals. In this paper, we present a fuzzy-logic based system aimed to generate emotions for a virtual seller or avatar. The 3D avatar is integrated within the e-Zoco e-commerce portal and its behaviour depends on the product search results. Moreover, the mood of the avatar not only depend on the products that...
Chinese real estate enterprises, broadly affected by factors like sub-prime crisis, stock market turmoil and fierce market competition, have been vigorously seeking new marketing tools, amongst which e-commerce is one a host of companies strive to employ. This article uses statistics and SPSS software to conduct a questionnaire study based on actual conditions of 27 real estate companies in China,...
Credibility risk endangers the healthy development of e-commerce. The early-warning system of indicators for e-commerce credibility risk is the core of the early-warning management of e-commerce credibility risk and is also the basis for establishing a comprehensive assessment model of e-commerce credibility risk. The early-warning system of quantitative indicators for e-commerce credibility risk...
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