2. Introduction
E-commerce is more than just buying and
selling products online.
Instead, it encompasses the entire online
processes of developing, marketing, selling,
delivering, and paying for products and
services purchased by internet worked,
global market places of customers, with
support of worldwide network of business
partners.
4. Classification of e-commerce
Based on the above criteria, e-commerce are
classified as;
I. Business-to-Business (B2B) e commerce
II. Business-to-Consumer (B2C) e commerce
III. Consumer-to-Business (C2B) e commerce
IV. Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) e commerce
V. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) e commerce
VI. M-commerce
5. Classification of e-commerce (cont…)
VII. Business –to-Employee
VIII. E-Government
IX. E-Learning
X. None-Business e-commerce
XI. Business-to-Business-to-Customer
XII. Intra-business e commerce
XIII. Exchange-to-Exchange
XIV. Collaborative commerce
6. • Business-to-Business (B2B)
e-commerce
It is the largest form of today’s commerce
In this form the buyers and sellers are both
business entities and does not include individual
consumer.
7. Advantages of B2B e-commerce
Some advantages of B2B ecommerce are:
Direct interaction with customers.
Focused on sales promotion.
Building customer loyalty.
Savings in distribution costs
8. Websites that are engaged in B2B
ecommerce
commodityindia.com
Indiaconstruction.com
clickforsteel.com etc.
9. 2.Business-to-Consumer (B2C)
e-commerce
In this e-commerce type, business and consumers
are involved.
Business sell to the public typically through catalogs
utilizing shopping cart software.
In Business-to Consumer (B2C) e commerce,
business must develop attractive electronic market
places to entice and sell products and services to the
consumer.
10. Business-to Consumer (B2C)
e-commerce transaction process
Business-to Consumer (B2C) e commerce
transaction process includes;
Customer identifies a need.
Searches for the product or services to satisfy the
need.
Selects a vendor and negotiates a price.
Receives the product or services (delivery logistics,
inspection and acceptance).
Makes payment.
Gets service and warranty claims.
11. Websites that are engaged in (B2C) e-
commerce
Travelocity.doc,
hotels.com,
rediff.com,
jaldi.com,
indiatimes.com,
Jobclassfied.miday
Eg online classes
12. 3. Consumer-to-Business (C2B) e-
commerce
Also called demand collection model.
It enables buyers to name their own price, often
binding, for a specific good or services generating
demand
A consumer posts his project with a set budget
online and within outs; companies review the
customers’ requirements and bids out the project.
Then the customer will review the bids and selects
the company that will complete the project.
Eg .stock market
14. Websites engaged in C2B
e-commerce
razerfinish.com,
ReverseAuction.com,
priceline.com are few of them
15. 4. Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C)
e-commerce
It facilitates the online transaction of goods or
services between two peoples.
However, there is not visible intermediary involved,
but the parties cannot carry out the transactions
without the platform, which is provided by the online
market such as eBay.
Examples:
Advertisement of personal services over the internet.
Selling of knowledge and experts online.
17. 5. Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
e-commerce
It is a technology in itself that helps people to directly
share computer files and computer resources
without having a central web server.
To use this, both the peers should have to install the
software so that they can communicate on the
common platform.
Examples:
Sharing of music’s, videos, and other digital files
electronically
18. 6. M-commerce
It refers to the use of mobiles devices for conducting
the transactions.
The mobile device holder can connect each other
and can conduct the business.
This is not really a type of e commerce but a
mechanism in transaction.
Many M-Commerce applications involve internet
enabled mobile devices. If such transactions are
targeted to individual, to specific location, at specific
times, they are referred as location base ecommerce
(L- Ecommerce).
19. 7. Business –to-Employee
This is the subset of the inter-business
category in which the business organization
delivers goods, services, information to
individual employees.
Examples:
Mobile employee in field representatives
(B2ME).
20. 8. E-Government
In E-Government a government departments
buys or sells goods, services or information
to business (G2B) or to the individual citizens
(G2C) or to other government entity (G2G).
In E-Government; intranets, extranets and
the internet all are applied.
Eg: Filing returns through net
21. 9. E-Learning
When educations, training or examination
are provided online, it is called E-Learning.
It is practiced in Universities and
organizations, government departments.
When organizations give training to their
employees, it is called E-Learning.
22. 14. Collaborative commerce:
This is the process of communicating
online between individuals or groups.
Examples:
designing a product together using screen
sharing, forecasting demand of products.