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Executive summary
This assignment report provides an overview of two b2b ecommerce websites. Amazon
and Alibaba are the leading world ecommerce sites in the world. Both websites provide
platforms that links buyers and sellers using internet technology. The report provides an
assessment of the two sites in terms customer satisfaction, design, navigation, payment methods,
security of data and privacy. It also presents an analysis of models of each site and their source
of revenue and profits. The report compares that advantages of each and gives a prediction of the
website that is more likely to make more profits in future. In this case, Alibaba was seen as
website that has a brighter future and will likely make more profits because of its principles and
goals. Alibaba focus on helping small business sell their products using technology. The website
doesn’t own any inventory but rather is a software that connects sellers and buyers.

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Table of contents
Executive summary.................................................................................................... 1
Introduction................................................................................................................ 3
B2B business model................................................................................................... 3
Justification of B2B..................................................................................................... 5
Why is Alibaba B2B?................................................................................................ 5
Goal of each websites................................................................................................ 5
Amazon................................................................................................................... 5
Alibaba.................................................................................................................... 6
Websites attributes.................................................................................................... 7
Alibaba.com verses Amazon B2B............................................................................. 13
Conclusion................................................................................................................ 14
References............................................................................................................... 16

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Introduction
e-commerce is a type of business that involves exchange pf goods and services using
internet (Chiu, Wang, Fang and Huang, 2014). Amazon was among the first websites that was
launched in 1994 as an e-commerce website where customers will books using their personal PC
and amazon will deliver the product using us postal services. With the dynamic technology of
internet, the business took another twist and amazon decide to make a supermarket online where
you can buy anything anytime and anywhere from their website. With time other companies
emerged such as eBay and Alibaba. Alibaba is currently the leading world ecommerce site
(Havinga, Hoving and Swagemakers, 2016). it was created to help small business in china do
business easily using internet technology anywhere on earth. However, it has grown to become a
giant in ecommerce.
B2B business model
The e-commerce model picked for this assignment is B2B. Business to business is an e-
commerce model where services and goods are exchanged through a platform (Laudon and
Traver, 2016). The transaction here may involve a supplier or manufacturer and a wholesaler or a
retailer and a wholesaler through a website. Amazon and Alibaba are the leading e-commerce
sites on the planet (Caro, Kök and Martínez-de-Albéniz, 2020). In this report, Alibaba and
Amazon are compared.

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Alibaba URL: www.alibaba.com
Fig :1.1 Homepage: Alibaba