The Necessity of Implementing E-Commerce in Hardware Foreign Trade

1. Hardware foreign trade enterprises are increasingly becoming internationally-accepted international trade through e-commerce, and they are also adapting to changes in the environment.

With the United States, Singapore, and EU countries launching e-commerce programs one after another, e-commerce has gradually begun to replace traditional trade methods. With the increase of economic openness, any enterprise is in a changing environment. First, network technology is driving transactions. Significant changes have taken place in the means. Original communication methods using letters and faxes will evolve into EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) methods. The development of electronic orders and on-line ordering methods will transform face-to-face negotiations into network negotiations over time and space. Changed the company's working methods, prompting hardware foreign trade companies to more quickly and efficiently standardize international operations. Second, enhance transparency. Internet operations will make customer data become more open and transparent, which will make competition more intense. Broaden the service channels and drive the improvement of service quality.

Moreover, the emergence of e-commerce as a new technology form and new business model is significantly changing the country’s macroeconomic environment, the industry’s competitive landscape, and the internal management system of the enterprise. With the intensification of global economic integration, China Hardware foreign trade companies are faced with unprecedented fierce trade competitions, not only requiring Chinese hardware foreign trade companies to change their business concepts in the short term, but also requiring Chinese companies to quickly change their management and management methods in the short term. The current era is the era of Internet Internet, using Internet browser software Technology implementation of e-commerce has become an inevitable trend. Severe forms can be described as: "Either e-commerce, otherwise no business can be".

2. Hardware foreign trade companies need to maintain their competitiveness by conducting international trade through e-commerce

E-commerce is a new form of trade service. It replaces traditional paper media with digital networks and equipment. This method breaks through the traditional one-way logistics-based operational structure and realizes logistics-based information flow. As the core, capital flow is the main new mode of operation. E-commerce is the transmission of electronic information, relying on the computer network as the medium for information exchange, and the speed of information processing and transmission is greatly accelerated. In addition, the procurement of raw materials by enterprises is extremely complicated and complicated. Process. Through computer transactions, the degree of automation has been greatly improved, various processing costs have been greatly reduced, and corporate network information can provide companies with various supply channels and strengthen cooperation with major suppliers.

Finally, e-commerce can provide enterprises with unprecedented potential customers. Through the Internet, customers can learn about the products provided by enterprises at any time and anywhere, and increase the possibility of companies selling goods. Under this new mode of operation, the company’s The level of informatization will directly affect the effective establishment of the enterprise supply chain, and thus affect the competitiveness of the enterprise. It should be said that exploring a reasonable e-commerce model is already imminent for hardware foreign trade companies.

3. Hardware foreign trade companies conduct international trade through e-commerce is a need to enhance symbiosis with partners

The emergence of e-commerce, on the one hand, has changed the way in which raw material procurement, product manufacturing, and settlement operations are performed within a production enterprise; on the other hand, it will change the existing warehousing, insurance, and customs declaration information flow methods and service methods. Therefore, hardware In addition to being an independent individual, foreign trade companies actively use e-commerce to improve their competitive position in the market, but must also cooperate with partners' e-commerce processes and models.

4. Hardware foreign trade enterprises conduct international trade through e-commerce is the need for enterprises to grasp customer resources

The original operation mode of hardware foreign trade enterprises is mostly the salesman’s process of selecting from customers, signing contracts, organizing the supply of goods, inspecting the goods and making payment to the buyer, and mastering the customer’s resources. This makes the company unable to grasp the customer’s situation. On the one hand, the clerk holds the survival and development of the company. Once the talent is lost, the competitiveness of the company is drastically reduced, which is detrimental to the long-term development of the company. Through e-commerce and the construction of hardware foreign trade enterprises, every person, every day Work schedules and action records are well documented, which customers, projects, when and where, who to contact, what has been done, how much time is spent, how much is spent, etc., all the details are clear, so that The initiative is more in the hands of hardware foreign trade companies.