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E Commerce is one of the most important facets of the Internet to have emerged in the recent times. Ecommerce or electronic commerce involves carrying out business over the Internet with the assistance of computers, which are linked to each other forming a network. To be specific ecommerce would be buying and selling of goods and services and transfer of funds through digital communications. The benefits of Ecommerce:
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shared by Spauit group on 11 May 10 - Cached

shared by Spauit group on 11 May 10 - Cached

The Role of The Warehouse in eCommerce and eRetailing: Trade-off and Benefits
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Most people are familiar with the front-end of eCommerce — the store, search, navigation, the cart, and payment.  But, what most consumers don’t realize is that the true magic and the more technically challenging piece of eCommerce is actually what happens after “click” — The Fulfillment, which often requires a Warehouse.
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t takes labor, capital, space, equipment, and complicated information systems to have a Warehouse.  Unfortunately, most firms cannot avoid this expense all-together; reduce, yes, but the Warehouse plays a really important role in the supply chain.  Namely, The Warehouse is a strategic response to Supply & Demand, Transportation Costs, and Value-Added Processing.
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A major challenge in managing supply chains is that demand can change very quickly, but supply is takes longer to change
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The Warehouse allows the firm to respond quicker when demand changes.
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Some questions to consider:
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Limitation of e commerce?
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Few technologies have the many benefits e-commerce does, whether taking a small business to never before seen global proportions or opening up millions of new customer markets. E-Commerce has given many companies the right to cheer, and here are a few of the reasons why
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With benefits come limitations. A few are detailed below:
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What's been successful in B2C
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Amazon, eBay, AltaVista, Yahoo, Whitehouse.gov, and Godiva Chocolates
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Then, in mid-2000, it all stopped. The "dotComs" struggled to become dominant, or even to turn a profit
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riginally it was thought that online merchants had a cost advantage, and that that would be the main benefit to buyers. We now see that the costs of distribution of many types of goods, of acquiring and keeping customers, and the maintenance and support of a web presence, may still be high enough to offset any such benefits.
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Other things to consider are cost advantages for the types of items that don't require you to ship anything -- when you can just change information in a database and perhaps notify other
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