E-Commerce Advantages

E-Commerce advantages can be broadly classified in three major categories:

• Advantages to Organizations
• Advantages to Consumers
• Advantages to Society

Advantages to Organizations
Using E-Commerce, organization can expand their market to national and international markets with minimum capital investment. An organization can easily locate more customers, best suppliers and suitable business partners across the globe.

• E-Commerce helps organization to reduce the cost to create process, distribute, retrieve and manage the paper based information by digitizing the information.
• E-commerce improves the brand image of the company.
• E-commerce helps organization to provide better customer services.
• E-Commerce helps to simplify the business processes and make them faster and efficient.
• E-Commerce reduces paper work a lot.
• E-Commerce increased the productivity of the organization. It supports "pull" type supply management. In "pull" type supply management, a business process starts when a request comes from a customer and it uses just-in-time manufacturing way.

Advantages to Customers
24x7 support. Customer can do transactions for the product or enquiry about any product/services provided by a company any time, any where from any location. Here 24x7 refers to 24 hours of each seven days of a week.

• E-Commerce application provides user more options and quicker delivery of products.
• E-Commerce application provides user more options to compare and select the cheaper and better option.
• A customer can put review comments about a product and can see what others are buying or see the review comments of other customers before making a final buy.
• E-Commerce provides option of virtual auctions.
• Readily available information. A customer can see the relevant detailed information within seconds rather than waiting for days or weeks.
• E-Commerce increases competition among the organizations and as result organizations provides substantial discounts to customers.

Advantages to Society

• Customers need not to travel to shop a product thus less traffic on road and low air pollution.
• E-Commerce helps reducing cost of products so less affluent people can also afford the products.
• E-Commerce has enabled access to services and products to rural areas as well which are otherwise not available to them.
• E-Commerce helps government to deliver public services like health care, education, social services at reduced cost and in improved way.