Z-Commerce

In the year 2003 which will soon, free trade agreements and the elimination of import duties of goods between ASEAN countries Free Trade Area / North American Free Trade Agreement (AFTA / NAFTA) will take us to the gates of the world market globalization. Each country will trigger and accelerate its superior commodity in order to continue to survive and compete with other countries. Structural condition of the business institutions of these countries will face a new standard, deregulated such that the left grip protective monopoly began old, became standard liberalization and privatization. This will change the map of economic competition between states has become more open and transparent. Each country is now preparing for a stimulant enhancing the competitiveness of their commodity.

Based on observations of the World Bank, the ability of the competitiveness of these countries will be accelerated and stimulated in such a way if given a touch of information technology. Starting from the production, distribution to the goods or services pengkomsusian can ditandemkan with information technology in order to achieve effectiveness and efficiency which will ultimately lower production costs and increase the selling value.

Even no less than the developing countries included in the G-7 members have agreed to provide the opportunity for information technology foundation and footing each step of the action increased the country’s economic progress. One application of information technology was the belle of today is the Internet.

One embodiment of the business and Internet-based commerce is electronic commerce or abbreviated as e-commerce. e-Commerce is the process of buying, selling, marketing and service of a goods, services and information through various types of computer networks like the Internet (James A. Oa € ™ Brien, Management Information Systems, 1999). e-commerce itself is basically divided into two types, namely the activity business to business (B2B) and business to customer (B2C).

B2B focus is inter-company trade, while focusing on B2C commerce between a company with the consumer end. One example of a company in Indonesia who apply the concept of B2B is www.dagang2000.com site Adimarga owned by PT Indosat and PT www.indonesianexport.com’s e-Commerce Nusantara. While applying the concept of B2C example is an online bookstore and www.sanur.co.id www.radioclick.com retail sites.

Based on the Newsweek magazine (November 1999 issue) revealed that the projection of B2B e-commerce world increased from approximately USD 200 billion in 2000 to around USD 1.3 trillion in 2003, which means increased approximately six-fold in just three years alone . Even in the January 2000 edition of Newsweek in 2004 predicted to be achieved spectacular rates of USD 2.7 trillion.

While the B2C sector, Newsweek (November 2000 edition) predicts that the value of e-commerce will reach the range of USD 175 billion in 2003, increased 3.5-fold from the initial value of USD 50 billion in 2000. The number is projected that the value of transactions that can be generated through e-commerce activity in the world.

For in Indonesia itself, the survey found Business Intelligence Report (BIRO), showed that approximately 60% of the respondents was used to correspond by e-mail and ready to transact online. The survey results cited by Warta Ekonomi magazine (edition No.25/XIII/25 June 2001) is based on 420 respondents SMEs located in Jabotabek with 80% of respondents had investments below U.S. $ 1 million and 72.5% of respondents have turnover below U.S. $ 1 million. Ternayta also described that as many as 127 companies, or approximately 30% of respondents are SMEs already make and use the website with the primary motivation to support promotional activities.