05/11/2008

E-C OMMERCE W EBSITE

D ESIGN
[CLICKNWEAR.COM]
Final Project Report

Archana Bobbala
Kannan Murugan
05/11/2008
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Introduction:

ClickNWear.com is the one-click solution for all kinds of apparel purchases. It

provides a good collection of high quality apparels at competitively low price. Some of
these products are exclusive to ClickNWear.com and not available for purchase in other
online stores. With competitive pricing strategy along with advanced marketing and
excellent customer service, we believe, we can make our business one of the most
successful online business in near future. We strive to be a good specialty on-line retailer
inspiring people to buy and use our products to improve their lifestyles through a role and
vogue, while creating a world-class business model.Our key goal is to be the worlds
largest supplier of fashionable apparels for our customers through online shopping.

(1) Information Systems Strategy Development

Business Description
We use the Business to Consumer (B2C) business model to sell our products through
online. In order to achieve customer loyalty and reduce the customer dropout, we make
sure that each individual customer has an excellent shopping experience. Since we are
focusing on long term business, we anticipate to low profits in the coming two years. We
secured enough money from two private investors to cover our expenses in these two
years.

Apparel business is one of the rapidly expanding industry segments in these years. It
expanded rapidly during the boom of the internet age. The main reason was the ability of
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customers to get the product information and pricing without stepping out. They are used
to compare the products and buy them at stores which offer more savings. According to a
survey conducted by one of the marketing firm, teenagers and young adults are the most
frequent buyers when it comes to apparels. Hence, this age group will be our primary
target.

The Company: Competitive Advantage and Challenge

The ClickNWear.com is an online company. The company has its own brand of
apparels called CW, which are priced lower and durable compared to most of the other
brands. Despite of being priced low, our quality is comparable to other brands in the
market as we rely on best suppliers worldwide. Our company plans to achieve the
strategic positioning (as mentioned by porter), developing a highly integrated value chain
that is difficult to imitate. Since we designed and developed our web site, we can make
faster updates based on any new business decision. Also we can incorporate new business
strategies faster than our competitors with less financial impact.

Competitive Advantages:
We believe we can achieve the competitive advantage over the others because:
Our website is developed keeping in mind the customer satisfaction, and easy to
change graphics to raise the instructiveness of the site.
We will send a small piece of designed cloth sample to our customer; this will
give them a feel of the actual cloth, as this is not done by any others in the
industry. So, ClickNWear.com provides look and feel of the cloths to the
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customers before actually buying. This is done only for the customized click and
wears shirts.
The usage of internet dramatically lowers the transaction and agency costs and
organizations (as learnt in the theory of MIS). Hence it is possible that we provide
comparatively low prices.
We formulate a strategy that accounts for an excellent customer service team to
provide support 24X7.
We provide wide ranges of products including all the leading brands and our own
CW brand.
We anticipate implementing Enterprise Applications systems that span functional
areas, focus on executing business processes across the firm, and include all levels
of management.
We try to be in contact with our customers by sending them all promotional offers
of products that they bought previously.
We will use the customer relationship management system to identify, attract, and
retain the most profitable customers; provide better services to existing customers,
and increase sales (an idea developed with the knowledge of MIS theory : Global
E-business)
We make use of Middleware, software that connects our various applications,
enabling them to communicate with each other and to exchange data; this reduces
the cost of connecting each application with all the others, and thus helps us in
gaining better differentiation through lower prices.

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Challenges:
As an E-business company our main challenges would be to differentiate
ourselves away from the-pack in the industry.
Establishing a value chain model that will be effective to critically examine
how to perform value adding activities at each stage and how our business
processes might be improved
Making our Information system to be used to improve relationships with
customers or suppliers
Internet transforms entire industries, forcing firms to change how they do
business. This will become a compelling factor for our company challenging
to change as the industry changes
Web based business industry results in increased competitions, raises
bargaining powers of customers & suppliers; fear of Profits being dampened.
Getting our Knowledge Management System to manage processes for
capturing and applying knowledge and expertise effectively is one of the
challenges that newly started companies face.
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For our company acquiring, storing, distributing and applying

knowledge, creating new knowledge and integrate it may become a
challenge if our KMS is not used properly

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Training our officials and providing basic usage knowledge to customers on

the changes we make to the website and our applications will be a challenge
when the people are not fast learners or are adamant to change.
Business Application designed: Website
We have designed a website for our company using the html tutorial from the website
http://www.w3schools.com/ . The Website carries links to the various apparels we
provide for customers and a mail to link. We have also developed an add to cart link to
make ordering easier to our customers.
We provide faster response to comfort our customers better than our competitors. We are
also planning to design a tool into our website which helps to upload the customers
pictures to our website. Our photo upload tool will also amazingly unique as it allows
customer to upload their pictures and will be able see how the particular apparel looks on
them. This tool will help customer to decide with a better perspective of how the apparel
looks on them. This gives the customers an extra advantage to see themselves on the
screen. The tool also helps the customers to crop the photo which they want to test.
According to that the customer can crop the photo as the tool takes a particular image size
and the files such as jpeg, bmp etc. for the trail.

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(2) Information Requirement Analysis

Customer Personalization:
In order to personalize the content for each individual visitor, the site needs to
track the visitors behavior on the website using cookies. This information is provided to
server software that generates dynamic web pages with contents that the visitor can use.
This information is also used to greet the visitors when come back to the site later.
Kind of information useful for users
E-Newsletter:
We use the e-newsletter to get in contact with the potential customers. Our enewsletter contains informative article about the new Apparels, latest trend as well as
special product promotions, etc. The e-newsletters are sent to individual customers to
protect the email address of the other customers. Also each of this e-newsletter contains a
link to explain how to unsubscribe the future e-newsletters.
FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
Your experience as our customer is our number one priority. Here are the answers to
our most frequently asked questions.
Getting Started:
How to Use Our Website
Our automated website is very easy to use. As you shop simply click on the "add
to cart" icon for any item you would like to purchase, it will automatically be
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added to your virtual "shopping cart". When you are done shopping, just click on
the "checkout" link at the top of the page and follow the simple instructions to
complete your order. Shipping will be calculated automatically for you depending
on your location and the shipping method chosen and you will be given an order
total before finalizing your order.
Ordering:
How Do I Place An Order?
You can place an order with us in one of four easy ways
Use our secure shopping cart system on our website.
Fax an order to our sales department at 201-276-6666 (you can print our offline
order form and Fax it to us).
Call us Toll Free to place your order at 1-800-543-7698 between 9am to 5pm
Eastern Standard Time
Secure Online Ordering
At The ClickNWear.COM we take security seriously as our website offers secure
ordering for your protection.
The ClickNWear.com is protected using a 128 bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
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Shipping:
When Will My Order Ship?
We strive to provide fast shipping at low economical prices to all our customers.
All in-stock orders received by 3pm Eastern Time ship the same day (Monday
through Friday excluding holidays)
When Will My Order Arrive?
If you choose our economical UPS ground shipping method your order should
arrive within 5-8 business days.
If you choose UPS Next Day air or Second Day Air your order should arrive in 12 business days.
Shipping Costs
We ship all orders to continental US via UPS Ground services. Our shopping cart
will automatically figure the shipping cost for you. The average price is $6-10 for
UPS ground and our 2 day rates are quite low as well.
We also offer UPS Next Day Air shipping and our website will calculate the cost
for you on these services as well.
Tracking
All customers who place orders online will automatically receiving shipment and
tracking notification via email after shipment has been made.

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Privacy Policy:
ClickNWear.com is committed to maintaining your confidence and trust, and to
protect any personal information provided online, therefore we offer the following
privacy policy.
Basic confidentiality policy:
It is our policy that all personal information, such as your name, postal and email
address or telephone number, is private and confidential. Accordingly, the
personal information you supply is stored in a secure location, is accessible only
by designated staff, and is used only for the purposes for which you provide the
information (such as to respond to a request or to process your order).
(3) References:
Laudon,J. and Laudon , K., Management Information Systems:
Managing the Digital Firm
www.yahoo.com
www.ArmaniExchange.com
http://www.prenhall.com/turban/
www.verisign.com
www.macys.com
www.discovery.com
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