One System to Rule Them All: Simplifying the e... - Articles - Quora. One System to Rule Them All: Simplifying the eCommerce App Ecosystem Powering your Business The last three years have been a period of fundamental transformation in how online retailers operate. The basis for this change has been the explosion of specialized, low-cost, web-based applications that power most online retailers. These ‘apps’ leverage technology to solve critical issues that have traditionally inhibited retail startups from more effectively competing with larger players with more people and resources. The concept of “there’s an app for that” enables growing retailers to build lean, efficient, and robust organizations driven by easy to use solutions specializing in one primary business function.
Today the picture is very different - online retailers have hundreds of applications to choose from that provide them with the freedom and flexibility to deploy the right application for each of the 8 primary business functions. [Thanks David Mongan for the help on the title! E-Commerce: How do e-commerce startups like One Kings Lane, Manpacks, and Dollar Shave Club handle the inventory fulfillment side of their business.
Flipkart. Why Amazon in India Still Matters. And Junglee Doesn’t. || Fast India. The gorilla has arrived. With all its 800 pound baggage. Amazon.com finally made its much-awaited entry into India today with the launch of price comparison site Junglee.com . No, it doesn’t sell anything itself..yet. No, it doesn’t have the reviews and recommendations that make Amazon so amazing..yet. And no, it won’t win any awards in website design..well, ever.
Say what you want about the stupidity of an aggregator site that just sends customers to Amazon’s potential competitors’ doorsteps. Let’s break it down. Let’s say Amazon scatters some of its famous “fulfillment centers” (read: warehouses) around India. It’s still not good enough. India Post- unreliable and inefficient. Amazon lives on plastic. Not here. Flipkart- the country’s far and away largest e-commerce retailer- gets 60% of its orders by COD . There are some battles start-ups can win. India protects its huge, mostly unorganized, retail sector from foreign interference. Not so fast. Ostrich time for E-Commerce Companies in India? With all due respects to the e-commerce ventures… The survey reports by those fancy researches always show the graph of e-commerce market India soaring northward, exponentially!!!
No doubt everybody wants to get a slice from this pie. But what fascinates is everybody thinks they can get it easily, just because it is a growing market. What does it take to start a online business? You may find step by step guide to start an online business starting from 1. Create a logo with any domain name available, 2. It sure does seem simple and this is what 90 %(a conservative figure) of e-commerce sites are doing. 1. 2. 3. 4.
So who’s winning? Hardly any e-commerce player is making money. Future? I completely believe that e-retailing is here to stay. What’s your opinion? [Guest article contributed by Raghuram. E-Commerce spurt spawns new services. Srividya Iyer, ET Bureau Dec 6, 2011, 04.44am IST MUMBAI: The next time you buy a book from an e-commerce portal and choose to pay through cash-ondelivery, you will have an executive coming in and collecting your payment while another person delivering it to you the same day. Chances are that neither works for the e-commerce company whose stuff you bought and instead, they work for a growing breed of companies coming up to support ecommerce firms. Services like logistics, delivery & payment collections and referral services, which are often complementary to online transactions, have become crucial for the e-commerce industry as portals jostle for more clicks in a crowded space.
Start-ups are moving in to provide these services exclusively focusing on this burgeoning space. For instance, when 22-yearold Aadhar Aggarwal opened an online grocery store, he realised that it was the logistics part of the business that was becoming a challenge.