The term "e-commerce" is the abbreviation of e-commerce by industry insiders. It refers to business activities conducted through the Internet, breaking through the limitations of time and space. Compared with the traditional business model, it has huge and obvious advantages: expanded consumer groups, reduced costs, higher efficiency, etc.

E-commerce has digitized and digitized traditional business processes. On the one hand, it replaces physical flows with electronic flows, which can greatly reduce manpower and material resources and reduce costs; on the other hand, it breaks through the limitations of time and space, allowing transactions to be conducted at any time and any place, thereby greatly improving efficiency.

E-commerce enables enterprises to enter the global electronic market at similar costs, making it possible for small and medium-sized enterprises to have the same information resources as large enterprises, and improving the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises.

E-commerce ERP integrates the logistics and capital flow modules such as procurement, production, sales, inventory management in traditional ERP with the online procurement, online sales, capital payment and other modules in e-commerce. It uses electronics and electronic technology as means and business as the core to break down the tangible and intangible barriers between countries and regions, allowing enterprises to shift from the traditional focus on internal resource management and utilization to the focus on external resource management and utilization, and from business integration within the enterprise to business collaboration between enterprises.