Stop & Shop Supermarket began as a family business in the 20th century and has now expanded to become a publicly traded company serving customers across Mauritius. To remain innovative and competitive in the modern economy, Stop & Shop is implementing various e-business solutions such as an intranet, extranet, customer relationship management system, and electronic payment options. This will help lower costs and transaction times while improving communications with customers, suppliers, and partners. However, adequate security measures must be taken and customers educated on electronic payment methods to address any potential weaknesses from the transition to more online operations.
4. Started and a family business in the 20th century with it’s
main store at Port-Louis Stop & Shop Supermarket is now
a public limited company with loyal customers all around
Mauritius
Stop & Shop targets innovation and follows market trend in
this modern economy.
Innovations means, a step towards technology.
5. Stop & Shop deals much in Business to Customers (B2C), and Business
to Business (B2B).
Thus, the Internet has becoming an increasingly important channel for
both as an efficient way of communication
Our customers and us can go online to engage in advertising, buying and
selling of products and services. This shall be efficient in terms of cost and
time.
6. Economic characteristics of implementing EBusiness in Stop & Shop
There are two main economic factors that would boost Stop & Shop to
be effective and efficient in operating the business. These are:
Demand Side
Supply Side
7. How is E-Business solutions important to Stop & Shop!
Lower Costs
Marketing
Communications
wider range of stock
E-mail Marketing
Overcome Geographical Limitations
Gain New Customers with Search Engine Visibility
8. How is E-Business solutions important to Stop & Shop!
Eliminate Travel Time and Cost
Remain Open All the Time
9. Weakness that may be encountered
If the project is stopped halfway, it could result in high
loss in investment.
E-Commerce stores take a good bit of administration and
marketing in order to be successful.
may result in customer dissatisfaction when the goods are delivered.
Some customers may not feel at ease to give information about their
credit card or related payment process.
10. Weakness and strengths – Transactions Costs
Search costs
Strength: Costs will thus reduce. Time effective
Information costs
Strengths: Updated information provided
to customers and about customers
Bargaining costs
Strengths: No need to move to specific location to deal over purchase,
everything can be done online. Saves cost and time.
Weakness: May require costly equipment to implement such
communication and may require additional employees to handle this
department
11. Decision costs
Strength: Can get the best customers. Inconveniences can be avoided.
Weakness: May result in loss of customers as they may easily compare
prices and may result in negative perception about the supermarket if
customers find better prices on other online websites
Policing costs
Strength: Results in customer’s satisfaction and reliability and trust in Stop &
Shop Supermarket.
Weakness: May be costly in terms of transport cost if goods do not meet the
requirements and have to be returned.
12. Enforcement costs
Strength: Customers can rely on us and be sure to avoid dissatisfaction.
Both customers and stop & Shop are in need to be ethical.
Weakness: May cost much in terms of time to the supermarket if
customers argue against the term of contract
14. SOCIAL FACTORS
Social factors govern the demand for internet
services and the inclination to make purchases
online and this is important to understand
factors which will make people make use of the
online services of our supermarket.
15. There are some factors which need to be considered when developing such a
system and these are:
Cost of access
Value proposition
Security
Fear of the unknown
Privacy and trust in e- commerce
E-Commerce is Green
Technology in organization.
16. E-strategy
What is strategy?
1.
Defines how we will meet our objectives.
2.
Sets allocation of resources to meet goals.
3.
Selects preferred strategic options to compete within a market.
4.
Provides a long-term plan for the development of the
organization.
17. Smith (1999)- SOSTAC
Situation
Where are we now?
Objectives
Where do we want to get to?
Strategy
How are we going to get there? – The Big Picture
Tactics
How are we going to get there? – The Detail
Actions
Who is going to do what and when?
Control
How can we control, measure and develop the
process?
19. E-business applications to be implemented
Intranet
An intranet is a computer network that uses Internet Protocol
technology to share information, operational systems, or
computing services within an organization. This term is used in
contrast to internet, a network between organizations, and
instead refers to a network within an organization. Sometimes,
the term refers only to the organization's internal website, but
may be a more extensive part of the organization's information
technology infrastructure, and may be composed of multiple
LAN.
20. why intranet for Stop and Shop?
An intranet can be used to store useful information such as:
Directory of staff and contact numbers.
sharing information on customers, suppliers and partners
within an organisation.
Intranets are also being used as corporate culture-change platforms. For
example, large numbers of employees discussing key issues in an
intranet forum application could lead to new ideas in management,
productivity, quality, and other corporate issues..
21. When part of an intranet is made accessible to customers and
others outside the business, that part becomes part of an
extranet. It will enable our shop to send send private messages
through the public network, using special encryption/decryption
and other security safeguards to connect one part of their
intranet to another.
22. How will it be a Low cost of access ?
Low cost of software;
Low cost of hardware;
Capability for being run on all platforms;
Standardized file transfer, document creation and network
protocol;
Reduction in paper costs useful!
23. Extranet
An extranet is a computer network that allows controlled
access from the outside, for specific business or educational
purposes. In a business-to-business context, an extranet can
be viewed as an extension of an organization'sintranet that is
extended to users outside the organization, usually partners,
vendors and suppliers, in isolation from all other Internet
users. In contrast, business-to-consumer (B2C) models involve
known servers of one or more companies, communicating
with previously unknown consumer users. An extranet is
similar to a DMZ in that it provides access to needed services
for channel partners, without granting access to an
organization's entire network
24. WHY AN EXTRANET SYSTEM FOR STOP AND SHOP?
Exchange large volumes of data using electronic data interchange
(EDI)
Share product catalogs exclusively with trade partners
Collaborate with other companies on joint development efforts
Jointly develop and use training programs with other companies
Provide or access services provided by one company to a group of
other companies, such as an online banking application managed by
one company on behalf of affiliated banks
To enhance efficiency in supply chain management.
facilitates partner inclusion in information flows from an organisation.
25. What is CRM?
Builds a database that describes the customers and the relationship they hold with the
company.
26. Database: a collection of information that is organized in a way that allows it to be
easily accessed,managed and updated. whatis.com
Provides enough detail so that the company can offer the client the
product/service that matches their need the best. whatis.com
May contain information about their past purchases, who is involved with the
account and a summary of all conversations.
Benefits of CRM to stop and shop
Research has shown that companies that create satisfied, loyal customers have
more repeat business, lower customer-acquisition costs and stronger brand value.
Which equals better financial performance.
Is a fast way to identify and handle potential problems.
Tracks all points of contact between a customer and the company
Provides all employees with product specs, product use information and technical
assistance.
CRM quickly manages the scheduling of follow-up sales calls to assess the satisfaction
of customers and their repurchase probabilities (when and how much).
34. Types of e-payments
Paypal
E-cash
How it is used:
E-cash is used over the Internet, email, or personal computer to other
workstations in the form of secured payments of "cash" that is virtually
untraceable to the user. It is backed by real currency from real banks.
Electronic cash issues.
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E-cash must allow spending only once.
Must be anonymous, just like regular currency.
Divisibility and convenience
Complex transaction.
Two storage methods : online and offline
36. Smart cards applications
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Plastic card containing an embedded microchip
Ticketless travel
– Seoul bus system: 4M cards, 1B transactions since 1996
– Planned the SF Bay Area system
Authentication, ID
Medical records
Ecash
Store loyalty programs
Personal profiles
Government
– Licenses
Mall parking
37. Smart cards
Food Stamp Project
Food stamp is the first implementation of the FAMILY CARD project on a nationwide scale. The family card is Egypt‘s first E-government success stories. It was
initiated in 2005 when the Egyptian Government decided to use the smart cards
technology to automate the government social services specially the subsidies. We
also for our supermarket we are coming up with such smart cards.
38. The Advantages Of Using Smart Cards
More secure
Safe to transport
Double as an id card
Possible Disadvantages
Easily lost
Security
Slow adoption
Possible risk of identity theft
39. Secure electronic transaction protocol
SET (Secure Electronic Transaction) is a very comprehensive security
protocol, which utilizes cryptography to provide confidentiality of
information, ensure payment integrity, and enable identity
authentication. For authentication purposes, cardholders, merchants,
and acquirers will be issued digital certificates by their sponsoring
organizations. It relies on cryptography and digital certificate to
ensure message confidentiality and security. Digital envelop is widely
used in this protocol. Message data is encrypted using a randomly
generated key that is further encrypted using the recipient's public key
41. With the arrival of new technologies and the cost reduction process people
have to adapt themselves to the new ways of purchasing. That is making
payments online. However with many scandals which have happened with epayments people fear to adopt this practice.
1. Don't trust cloud providers
2. Use fake personal data
3. Regularly make local backups
4. Avoid daisy-chaining accounts
5. Press cloud providers for better password
practices
6. Disable remote wiping for laptops
7. Press cloud providers for better password
practices
42. Other ways to prevent being hacked are:
1. Cryptography
Types of crypto systems:
Both the encryption and decryption keys are kept secret.
Example:
To encrypt, map each letter into the third letter forward in the
alphabet order;
To decrypt, map each letter into the third letter back.
Problems with Secret Key Cryptosystems:
- Key transfer
- Too many keys
43. Firewalls
* A firewall is a barrier placed between the private network and the
outside world.
* All incoming and outgoing traffic must pass through it.
* Can be used to separate address domains.
*Control network traffic.
*Cost: ranges from no-cost (available on the Internet) to $ 100,000
hardware/software system.
44. Electronic Mail Security
E-mail is the most widely used application in the Internet.
Who wants to read your mail ?
Business competitors
Reporters,Criminals
Friends and Family
Two approaches are used:
PGP: Pretty Good Privacy
PEM: Privacy-Enhanced Mail
47. Conclusion
Being in the business for so long, Stop &
Shop is always proving its great care
towards its customers as well as suppliers.
Therefore to remain amongst the top in
this highly competitive market, the
management is continuously monitoring
the need for innovation and technological
novelties. Therefore this year we have
come up with a long list of improvements
bringing a new era to the world of
supermarkets and shopping in Mauritius.
These huge changes towards sophisticated