Reference no: EM132613086
Assume you are the E-commerce Manager for a company that wants to start selling its products online. The business has a current product inventory of approximately 1,500 SKUs (SKU = stock keeping unit) and expects online sales (in the U.S. and internationally) to be around $150,000 in the first year. The company is experiencing rapid growth and anticipates that its inventory will grow to approximately 10,000 SKUs in the next 4 years and forecasts online sales to reach over $1 million in 4 years.
The company CIO wants you to select a modern, secure, fully-functional, and scalable e-commerce Shopping Cart solution that will efficiently and quickly allow it to start selling its products online. The solution you select must accommodate the current and future inventory and sales volumes, and allow for further grown beyond year 4. Additionally, the cart must also meet the list of requirements listed below.
Shopping Cart Key Requirements:
• mobile-friendly / responsive (allow ordering via smartphones or tablets)
• product reviews and ratings
• custom shipping options and/or integration with third-party carriers (UPS, FedEx, USPS)
• coupon and/or discounts codes
• payment processing and integration with third party payment gateways or processing
• comprehensive reporting tools
• competent and reliable technical support
• POS (Point of Sale) capability
Please review various e-commerce Shopping Carts currently available on the market. Then select three (3) Shopping Cart solutions that come the closest in meeting the current and future specific inventory and sales volume needs of the company (listed above). Include at least one (1) Self-hosted Shopping Cart and one (1) Hosted Shopping Cart solution. Then review the features & functionality, and advantages & disadvantages of each of the three (3) Shopping Cart options and compare and contrast them in the presentation. Make sure you compare and contrast various functionality, features, plans, and pricing across the three (3) solutions (make sure you include all the key requirements listed above).
Finally identify which is the best Shopping Cart option for your company and explain why it was selected. If you decide to recommend a Hosted solution, please identify which specific plan(s) and pricing option(s) is/are required to handle current and future inventory and sales volumes. Present your findings to the CIO via a professional, substantive, and visually rich PowerPoint Presentation that meets all of the presentation guidelines listed below.
Presentation Guidelines:
• Create a professional presentation with 15-20 slides of content that summarize your analysis (excluding the Title and References slides).
• Prepare a minimum of 15 content slides (excluding the Title and References slides) PowerPoint Presentation that is professional, substantive, well structured and organized, and visually rich. Please do not exceed 20 content slides (excludingthe Title and References slides).
• 1 Title slide + 15-20 Content slides + 1 References List slide
• Each content slide should have sufficient content to clearly communicate the information covered. A screen-shot alone does not count as "content" or "analysis."
• Make sure the content is properly formatted, readable, and professional (free of spelling and grammar mistakes). Please use headings, multiple bullet points, and short phrases. Don't include large blocks of text or content in ALL CAPS!
• At least 12 of the content slides must include visually supportive graphics or images that enhance and complement the content on each slide. You must use complementary and different graphics/images/charts to support and enhance your presentation. If you use the same image or graphic on multiple content slides, it will only count as one (1) visual element for purposes of grading. Slide background theme alone does not count as a visual element.
• Use the Notes area of each slide to provide background information, additional support, and/or clarification(s) for the content on each slide.
• Provide a Title slide and a final slide for your References, fully cited in APA style and formatting. Do not count these two slides in the total content slides (15-20) required for the PowerPoint content guidelines.
• Submit your professional and substantive PowerPoint Presentation as a properly formatted MS-PowerPoint file (make sure all guidelines are followed) in the corresponding Assignments area.
• The comparing and contrasting analysis must be your own analysis written in your own words that you put together and organized based on the research of the three (3) E-commerce Shopping Carts you selected, not a comparison that someone else has done and you copied and pasted into the presentation slides. Including screen-shots of comparisons done by other websites or reviewers is not acceptable!
Attachment:- Shopping Cart.rar