Benefits of B2B E-Commerce Solutions

Posted by Knack Systems on August 5th, 2017

The business world is no longer as it was a couple of decades ago. Back when eBay was merely an online bidding platform for the most random home clutter and Amazon was nothing but a glorified online bookstore, e-commerce wasn’t taken as seriously. Today, these websites are among the biggest online retail authorities not only in the United States but also in the entire globe—and their success more than proves the value of e-commerce in business. These online retail outlets have caused a great boom in electronic commerce and more and more businesses are seeing the internet as a potent venue for marketing and selling their products and services.

Businesses of all sizes are adapting the practice, ranging from large companies such as Apple, which now reaps substantial revenue through iTunes, to retail giants such as Wal-Mart and smaller online concept stores, including daily deal sites such as Living Social and Group on. With the ubiquity of the internet, it only makes sense for B2B companies to adopt the E-Commerce concept. Below are the most important e-commerce benefits that are simply too good to let pass:

• Wider reach minus the inflating costs – The internet, and now the cloud, provides real, practical, and reliable methods of delivering technology to companies. With SaaS or software as a service solutions, business growth is possible not only through online service delivery to consumers but also by allowing companies to contain and maintain operations without having to invest in physical offices and outlets in every city in order to accommodate the same level of growth.
• Automated transactions – There is merit to the business concept that what can be automated should be automated. Automation doesn’t only make business processes simpler and easier, it removes the prospect of human error. An e-commerce site where all transactions run automatically minimizes, if not eliminates, mistakes while also promoting transparency as you get to keep record of each and every business transaction made.
• Streamlined payment collection – Another major advantage of having an e-commerce solution in place is streamlined payment collection. Not only do companies get to charge and collect instantly, they also simplify recurring payments, which offers convenience for both the client and the business.
• Round the clock operations – When brick-and-mortar establishments have to close their doors to clients outside business hours, there is simply no downtime for e-commerce websites, which means having the ability to continue operations and make revenue well beyond the traditional business hours.

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Knack Systems is a Premium Gold Partner of SAP with a focus around Customer Management, which includes Cloud Solutions, Hybrid Solutions, E-commerce, and Analytics. Knack Systems provides end-to-end services in SAP transformation programs, including solution roadmaps, implementations, integration services, rollouts, support, upgrades, testing, and package evaluations.