Monday, November 22, 2010

Outsourcing and E-commerce

While your e-commerce business grow over to distant remote places order shipping face problems. It is their
outsourcing comes in as a solution.There are many more fulfillment centers for order shipping,This helps any
online business person to choose one over the other.While selecting order shipping many should have to be
taken into account.
* Warehouse location- Warehouses should be in close proximity to customers where they can access easily.
If warehouse too far from customers business is likely to fail because the cost of shipment will be higher.
* Size of the fulfillment centers- Fulfillment companies range from small to large big sized companies with more staff,branches etc.Suppose orders get piled up for your online business,then selecting one center that
can handle extra work load and ship orders within the agreed time is congenial.
Most fulfilment centers offer variety of shipping options.Fulfilment centers has various approaches for shipping fulfilment.
* Order entry- Entering orders includes various methods-
 (1) Sending individual order to the warehouse
 (2) Entering order in fulfilment center's web based system
 (3) Emailing a spreadsheet containig full of orders received  in a day
The selection of any methods for order entry depends on volume of business,shipment time,cost of shipment.
While the orders are high,the selecting method 1 or 2 will make a tedious job.
* Fulfilment centers should have provision of correcting errors. That  means when order are shipped to
wrong address or a wrong items, there should be process for remedying the situation.


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Sunday, November 21, 2010

E-commerce web store -some observations

While choosing to create an ecommerce web store there are some points to think out  It is essential to have an ecommerce web store if there occur a online buying under 200 dollars. If product or service cost more than that it would be better to make an ecommerce website well managed by sale team.
Making a webstore is easy for a professional designer imagining that you have very limited back-end products. But anyone who is new comer in the field of online business has to sharpen their knowledge in web designing technologies to stay on because technologies in internet changing very often and to compete with rival competitor dealing in the same product.There are  technology cost associated with an e-commerce
website, in addition to the cost of overheads,marketing and fulfillment.
However, starting an e-commerce store  is generally less expensive than traditional brick and mortar services.The barbone start up costs associated with an e-commerce store is the cost of computer  and Internet service provider. There is contrasting views from this point.