Mobile Commerce

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Mobile CommerceElectronic Procurement

• By Leyia Cubbison
• Yvette Luna
• Stacey Randol

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Important questions to think about

• What are the two most important initial benefits
  of e-procurement?
• What are two things that are necessary to ensure
  the growth of M-Commerce?
• What are two types of portable devices used in
  e-procurement?

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Before E-Procurement

• Purchase Request
• Management Authorization
• Orders Sent to Various Suppliers
• Product Delivered
• Invoice Mailed to Buyer
• Payment of Invoice

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E-Procurement

• To Drive Value into the Business,
• E-Procurement Must
• Develop visibility to expenditures by vendor and
  by category to identify savings opportunities
• Develop spend strategies through a rigorous
  strategic sourcing process
• Implement mechanisms to execute strategies and
  realize opportunities

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Initial E-Procurement Benefits

• Reduction in Transaction Processing Time
• average of 60-70 time reduction
• Significant Cost Reductions
• 50-60 per purchase order
• Improved Data Management
• Improved Sourcing Decisions
• Automation of Workflow

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E-Procurement Today

• Better Price Negotiations
• Average Savings of 15-20
• Higher Return on Investment (ROI)
• Adoption of E-Commerce Tools
• Security Features Added
• Firewall/Encryption
• Electronic Signature
• SSL (Secure Socket Layer)

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Future of E-Procurement

• Procurement Integration
• Total Cost of Ownership
• Smoother Supply Chain
• Linkage Between Internal External Suppliers
• Full-Cycle Requisition-to-Check Solutions
• Supplier Optimization
• Visibility to Real-Time Information

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Mobile Commerce

• The purchase of products and services via
  wireless technologies or devices to enable
  e-commerce activities at any time or location
• Wireless Technologies
• Cellular Phones
• Palm Pilots
• Other Handheld Devices

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Mobile Commerce Benefits

• Provides Easy Access To Collect Information From
  Anywhere at Anytime
• Cost Savings and Increased Revenues Generated by
  Replacing Paper-Based
  Processes
• Improves Employee Efficiency
• Enhances Customer Relationships

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Mobile Commerce Drawbacks

• Lack of Security, Privacy, Ease of Fraud
• Different Technology Standards throughout the
  Industry
• Marketing and Pricing Issues
• Small Display Screen
• Slow Speeds

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Past Mobile Commerce

• Slower, Larger and the Technology Was Not as
  Advanced
• Wireless Providers Promised Big Things For the
  Future
• Problematic Distribution of Money Between Content
  Providers, Retailers, and Handset Vendors
• Lack of Compatibility Among the Technologies
  Available

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Mobile Commerce Present

• Two All-Digital Standard Mobile Phone Platforms
  in America
• GSM
• CDMA
• Used for Entertainment
• Playing Games
• Download Ring Tones and Wallpaper
• Taking/Sending Pictures
• Sound Recordings
• Short Message Systems

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Mobile Commerce Present

• Add Transactions to Monthly Mobile Bills
• Handwritten Recognition
• Directory Services
• Wireless Restaurant
• Movie Guide
• Offers Wireless Rebidding
• Approximately 6.8 Billion in Revenue

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Mobile Commerce Future

• Receive Instant Coupons As You Walk Past a Store
• Sending a Buying List to a Grocery Store and
  Collecting Them After Work
• Receive a Short Message of Current Movies Playing
  as You Walk Past a Movie Theater
• Purchasing Soft Drinks From Vending Machines
  Using a Mobile Handset

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Mobile Commerce Future

• To Insure the growth of
• m-commerce, the following
• are necessary
• Common Protocols or Standards Must Be Maintained
• Higher Data Speed and More
  Security

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Mobile Commerce E-Procurement

• PAST
• Paper Requisition Forms
• Manager Signature Required
• Internet Technology of the 1990s
• Automation of paper based operations
• Cost Savings
• Time Savings

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Mobile Commerce E-Procurement

• e-procurement by use of portable devices
• PDAS
• Mobile Phones with web access
• Laptops

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Mobile Commerce E-Procurement

• Motorola Pilot
• Approvals
• Supervising Manager
• Administrative Manager
• Need for Mobile E-Procurement
• Traveling business professionals
• Managers
• Engineers
• Sales employees

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Mobile Commerce E-Procurement

• Who is Eligible?
• Time spent out of office
• Transaction volume
• Process complexity
• Need for exception handling

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Mobile Commerce E-Procurement

• Benefits
• Full access
• Portion of task
• Speed of processing time
• Security
• Bandwidth restrictions
• Security loopholes
• Abuse of customer information

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Mobile Commerce E-Procurement

• Plaza 121
• Virtual Environment
• Buyers
• Sellers
• One platform
• Online auctions
• Pocket PC

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Mobile Commerce E-Procurement

• FUTURE
• Next Generation of E-Procurement
• Faster
• Memory Increase
• Security