615-252 Electronic Commerce

615-150 Organisational Processes, or equivalent.

615-237 Telecommunications Concepts

This subject provides an introduction to the concepts and processes used in doing business electronically. The focus will be on the business value, rather than technical, aspects of electronic commerce. The subject will examine both business-to-business and business-to-computer electronic commerce. Topics that will be covered include the principles and use of e-Commerce technologies such as EDI, XML, automatic identification, standardised numbering, EFT, e-Hubs and e-Markets in managing and re-engineering supply chains. In addition, business models for e-Commerce, marketing, payment systems, security and the legal and ethical issues raise by e-Commerce will be discussed.

A 2-hour end-of-semester written examination, written work of up to 20 pages, group research and field projects taking approximately 20 hours in total. The weighting of the assessment components will be announced at the commencement of the subject.