For small and medium-sized hardware companies, e-commerce can bring them many new opportunities and challenges. It can solve many difficulties and problems facing small and medium-sized hardware companies. The arrival of the Internet can open up a broader market for small and medium-sized hardware companies. As information competition plays an increasingly important role in the competitive advantages of enterprises, with the e-commerce, small and medium-sized hardware companies can compete with large companies in terms of information. In general, the impact of e-commerce on small and medium-sized hardware companies can be divided into the following aspects:
Global market
The competitiveness of the traditional market of small and medium-sized hardware enterprises can be strengthened; small and medium-sized hardware companies have more opportunities to sell their products to various countries and regions around the world.
2. Market Supply Chain
The demand for suppliers to provide design and engineering services will increase; vendors will outsource more non-core businesses; customers will need more electronic communications for orders, billing, etc., when large customers have such requirements. This will have a major impact on the supply chain; customers will require their suppliers to provide more inventory management services, such as data warehousing and order management; manufacturers will continue to reduce the total number of suppliers; companies in the supply chain The connection between them will be closer.
3. Internal operation and process control
With more use of networked information technologies and system integration technologies, communication and collaboration within the company will improve; more will be used with automated manufacturing technologies to provide greater opportunities for integrating external data and internal operations, such as EDI and MRP systems The integration; the number of employees in the company will decrease, but the workload of each employee will increase; the operating and management costs of the company will decrease.
4. Customer Service
Manufacturers will try to shorten the time their new products and services are available; manufacturers will try to keep prices to a minimum; product quality will receive greater attention; suppliers will find it necessary to provide order status better and faster Information (such as the production date of products, etc.); businesses will pay more attention to the after-sales service of products; the competition between information and telecommunication services will intensify; the types of information and telecommunication services provided to manufacturers will increase; new e-commerce Products and services will emerge; human resources and work structures; the role of computers in companies will become more important; small companies will be more difficult to train employees in using computers than larger companies.
5. Information as a Business Asset
Information itself will become an important saleable product (such as a database); internal data will play an important role in making decisions; through networking, manufacturers will have more and better opportunities to more widely access useful business and technical information.
6. Business Prospects
Small and medium-sized hardware companies can use the network to obtain timely information on the latest business trends to guide their own production and sales.