The Trend of Internet Commerce

Internet and its inherent possibility to be exploited as a commercial ought to be taken into consideration very seriously by business organizations.

Indeed, most companies plan to engage the Internet technology in their business, although their approaches and levels of implementations vary in degree. 

Some companies only embrace e-commerce in business-to-business activities, by passing all paper-based transactions.

Others which concern with business-to-customer Internet commerce dealings establish their presence on the Intrenet – by having as simple corporate homepage to inform the prospective customers about the business or by having a web store, which includes e-mail and purchase order forms for the customers to interact with customer services or product sales department.

Thus, it can be expected that the number of transactions made on the Internet would increase rapidly, especially with the evolvement of various enabling technologist to support Internet commerce.

Moreover, the infrastructure of the information superhighway enables the trading of a group of commodity readily, for instance in transactions that only involve exchanging documents or data and transferring knowledge.

Despite the potential growth in the use of the Internet as a powerful information-trading place Internet commerce has also becoming very popular for the other type of commodity: the physical goods.

The fact is that we do not live out of knowledge and information alone and therefore, it is not surprising that the Internet would be exploited as the trading place for physical good.

Consequently, a primary element in the value chain which makes Internet commerce feasible is the logistics support. In fact restructuring of logistics supports to deliver the product t the customers is a field of opportunity upon realizing the e-commerce significance.
The Trend of Internet Commerce