1. The site I chose is chewy.com. Their business primarily runs on business to business activity because they sell pet products from numerous companies on their site. They would purchase products from companies and then sell them online to consumers. Also, they would need to manage their inventory. Lastly, chewy.com needs to manage business process support activities. My company would make dog products, but also sell dog food that we purchase from businesses, so that is how we are similar to www.chewy.com.
2. Three business process activities that would be improved by electronic commerce are purchasing, logistics and business process support activities. Purchasing is placing orders, choosing certain products, identifying and evaluating vendors and resolving any issues that take place after the customer has received the product or service. Logistics is handling the inbound movement of materials and supplies …show more content…
This would consist of receiving, storing goods in a warehouse, managing inventory, scheduling and directing vehicles and distributing the finished goods. The support activities categories are finance and administration, human resources and technology development. Tasks for finance and administration are planning operation, budgeting, processing customer payments, making payments to suppliers, operating computing infrastructure and planning capital expenditures. Tasks for human resources are hiring, evaluating and training employees, maintaining compliance with record keeping to follow government regulations and overseeing benefit programs. Tasks for technology development are publishing research reports online, posting research results, managing virtual collaborative research work groups and connecting researchers to outside sources of research and development services. I would handle the purchasing for my company by choosing who to get the material from for my products and place the orders for the material.
2. Three business process activities that would be improved by electronic commerce are purchasing, logistics and business process support activities. Purchasing is placing orders, choosing certain products, identifying and evaluating vendors and resolving any issues that take place after the customer has received the product or service. Logistics is handling the inbound movement of materials and supplies …show more content…
This would consist of receiving, storing goods in a warehouse, managing inventory, scheduling and directing vehicles and distributing the finished goods. The support activities categories are finance and administration, human resources and technology development. Tasks for finance and administration are planning operation, budgeting, processing customer payments, making payments to suppliers, operating computing infrastructure and planning capital expenditures. Tasks for human resources are hiring, evaluating and training employees, maintaining compliance with record keeping to follow government regulations and overseeing benefit programs. Tasks for technology development are publishing research reports online, posting research results, managing virtual collaborative research work groups and connecting researchers to outside sources of research and development services. I would handle the purchasing for my company by choosing who to get the material from for my products and place the orders for the material.