1. Exploitation of New Business
Broadly speaking, electronic commerce emphasizes the generation and exploitation of new business opportunities and to use popular phrases: "generate business value" or "do more with less".
2. Enabling the Customers
Electronic Commerce is enabling the customer to have an increasing say in what products are made, how products are made and how services are delivered (movement from a slow order fulfillment process with little understanding of what is taking place inside the firm, to a faster and rt1ore open process with customers having greater control.
3. Improvement of Business Transaction
Electronic Commerce endeavors to improve the execution of business transaction over various networks.
4. Effective Performance
It leads to more effective performance ie better quality, greater customer satisfaction and better corporate decision making.
5. Greater Economic Efficiency
We may achieve greater economic efficiency (lower cost) and more rapid exchange (high speed, accelerated, or real-time interaction) with the help of electronic commerce.
6. Execution of Information
It enables the execution of information-laden transactions between two ore more parties using inter connected networks. These networks can be a combination of 'plain old telephone system' (POTS), Cable TV, leased lines and wireless. Information based transactions are creating new ways of doing business and even new types of business.
7. Incorporating Transaction
Electronic Commerce also inco11'orates transaction management, which organizes, routes, processes and tracks transactions. It also includes consumers making electronic payments and funds transfers.
8. Increasing of Revenue
Firm use technology to either lower operating costs or increase revenue. Electronic Commerce has the Potential to increase revenue by creating new markets for old products, creating new information-based products, and establishing new service delivery channels to better serve and interact with customers. The transaction management aspect of electronic commerce can also enable firms to reduce operating costs by enabling better coordination in the sales, production and distribution processes and to consolidate operations arid reduce overhead.
9. Reduction of Friction
Electronic Commerce research and its associated executions is to reduce the "friction" in on line transactions frictions is often described in economics as transaction cost. It can come from inefficient market structures and inefficient combinations of the technological activities required to make a transaction. Ultimately, the reduction of friction in online commerce will enable smoother transaction between buyers, intermediaries and sellers.
10. Facilitating of Network Form
Electronic Commerce is also impacting business.to business interactions. It facilitates the network form of organization where small flexible firms rely on other partner, companies for component supplies and product distribution to meet changing customer demand more effectively. Here, an end to end relationship management solution is a desirable goal that is needed to manage the chain of networks linking customers, workers, suppliers, distributors and even competitors. The management of "online transactions" in the supply chain asserts a central roll.
11. Facilitating for Organizational Model
It is facilitating an organizational model that is fundamentally different from the past. It is a control organization to the information based organization. The emerging forms of techno-organizational structure involve changes in managerial responsibilities, communication and information flows and work group structures.
