Independent station: A New Model of Cross-border E-commerce

Currently most cross-border e-commerce sellers are engaged in cross-border e-commerce through mainstream third-party platforms. But increasingly fierce homogenization competition on third-party platforms, sharp decline of traffic dividends, constantly iterative rules and changing policies, compressed profit margins all make it more and more difficult for the sellers to secure a place in marketplace. As a result, many sellers have begun to look for new growth models and independent station is one of them. This paper introduces the overall development of China’s cross-border e-commerce and background of the rise of independent station and its overall development over the last a few years. The paper explains how independent station works by making a contrast with third-party platforms, and exemplifies causes of the rise of independent station from several aspects through elaborating its benefits over that of third-party platforms and reasons why cross-border e-commerce sellers are turning to independent station. Based on the general introduction of the fundamental basics of independent station, the papers mainly elaborate the currently popular independent station operation models by explaining their characteristics, comparing their advantages and disadvantages of each of the models as well as giving examples of representative independent station companies. Since independent station is relatively a new mode of cross-border e-commerce and its development is immature thus the paper discusses some problems of independent station for the purpose of offering inspiration and enlightenment for cross-border e-commerce independent station sellers

China’s E-commerce Development Path and Mode Innovation of Agricultural Product Based on Business Model Canvas Method

Rapid development of modern e-commerce technology has greatly improved the efficiency of China’s agricultural product supply chain operation , and the traditional e-commerce of agricultural products mode and path have been far from enough to solve new problems that modern economic development brought in China. This paper synthesizes the domestic and foreign development status of e-commerce of agricultural products, further establishes the analysis frame of e-commerce of agricultural products mode, first applies the business model canvas method to generalize China’s e-commerce mode of agricultural products from nine important dimensions of customer segmentation, key business, value proposition, core resources etc, aiming at the deficiencies of the present model,creatively put forward new mode, LBS O2O Community with WeChat, and explores development path of the community e-commerce of agricultural products, provides feasible suggestions to agricultural operators in the selection and optimization of electronic business mode

The Factors Affecting Cross-border E-commerce Development of SMEs ---An Empirical Study

Recently, there are two mainly methods for SMEs operating cross-border e-commerce in China. One is online store of firms via the cross-border third party platform. The other is the online store of firms built by themselves for export markets expansion. Based on the analysis of cross-border e-commerce process, we explore four factors which may affect the mode selection of cross-border e-commerce of SMEs, namely E-marketing, electronic payment, electronic customs and international logistics. For the methodology, we use Probit model of Logit modeling and then have the finding that the three factors E-marketing, electronic customs and international logistics are the impact of SMEs cross-border e-commerce mode selection, and further find that most of SMEs who are weak at cross-border e-commerce operation stay on third party cross-border e-commerce service platform. Based on the finding, we also have some conclusion. In order to assist SMEs development, the government should establish and improve the trade informational platform. Meanwhile, they should encourage the cross-border e-commerce third-party platform to become bigger and stronger and improve electronic customs clearance continuously to raise large scale cross-border logistic firms and third parties with good service, strong competition and high technologies. For the SMEs, they should adopt the third party cross-border e-commerce platform actively. Some firms should have their own cross-border websites for opening cross-border e-commerce channel actively

An Analysis on the Development Model of China’s County-level E-commerce

Based on the case studies of e-commerce activities in six counties of China’s eastern, middle and western regions respectively, this paper has probed into the characteristics of e-commerce development of each county, which are then classified into four development models of county-level e-commerce in China, featuring the integration and aggregation of resources endowment and production factors. The paper further analyzes the key factors contributing to the success of county-level e-commerce development, in a bid to provide reference and guidance for other counties in their e-commerce activities

The Impact of COVID-19 on Supply Chains and E-commerce Logistics

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, supply, demand, and logistics have all been affected. Due to its unpredictable severity, the pandemic has highlighted the need to modify the existing supply chain model, the consumer structure model, and the digitization of markets. At the same time, the situation under COVID-19 offers increasing opportunities for e-commerce, including new business models and online commercial activities. This master's thesis aims to analyze how COVID-19 will affect global supply chains and e-commerce. Moreover, it will try to analyze the practices of major e-commerce platforms during the pandemic to determine whether there are opportunities for innovation and development in the future. The study will examine how retailers adapted to supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic from a practical perspective and highlight the critical role of technology in these processes. The research provides insights into how companies are coping with long-term disruptions. The study we conducted used a qualitative approach, which included a case study and a SWOT analysis. In addition, we analyzed quantitative operational data from public financial reports released by JD.com.Our study examines the effects of a pandemic on supply chains. It also summarises the challenges faced by the retail sector and the strategies used by JD.com during the challenging period. During the pandemic, JD.com was able to handle the various aspects of its supply chain management through an integrated supply chain and intelligence platform. This study presents a supply chain resilience analysis by using actual operational data. Moreover, It suggests that companies should consider operational flexibility and collaboration outside the supply chain to adapt to significant supply chain disruptions like COVID-19

Research on the Overseas Warehouse Construction of Cross-Border E-Commerce

The rapid development of cross-border e-commerce has injected new vitality and productivity to e-commerce. But it also brought the lag problem of cross-border logistics and distribution system. Under current models of logistics and distribution, the order cycle is too long to be efficient which coexist with high cost, uncontrollable risks and complicated procedure. These factors have hindered the development of cross-border e-commerce. In this case, the e-commerce overseas warehousing gradually come into being. How to overcome the contradiction of low-cost and fast delivery, take advantage of overseas warehouse building and successfully open up overseas markets, is an important issue needs to be discussed in the field of cross-border e-commerce. This paper talks from cross-border e-commerce and logistics distribution mode, discusses the rise of overseas warehouse building and analyze their strengths and weaknesses, then give a few suggestions to promote the construction and development of overseas warehouse

Research on The Issue of Payments in The Cross-Border E-Commerce

Cross-border e-commerce is the combination of “Internet+” International Trade, which shorten the distance between products and market in time and space, and promote trade development. While cross-border payment services play an important role in cross-border e-commerce, once the payment services is not successful, it means we are unable to make a deal, so, it pushes the completion of cross-border e-commerce transactions. This paper researches the concept of cross-border e-commerce and cross-border payment, and develops a model to describe current situation of China’s cross-border payment business, summarizes the domestic and foreign cross-border e-commerce platform to solve cross-border payments service solutions. Finally, we analyze the opportunities and challenges of Xi\u27an city facing e-commerce cross-border payment, and proposes solutions