Business Proposal: E-commerce Implementation, Resource Planning

This report presents a business proposal for the implementation of an e-commerce strategy, specifically addressed to the Operational General Manager of "North Wharf." It details the required human and physical resources, including staff, delivery trucks, and warehouse space, and provides a financial analysis, including initial investment, projected cash flow, and profitability index. The proposal also outlines the potential risks of not adopting the e-commerce plan, such as customer dissatisfaction and reduced profitability, while highlighting the benefits, such as improved service quality, enhanced customer satisfaction, and competitive advantages. The financial projections indicate a positive return on investment, making the e-commerce strategy a favorable option. The report emphasizes the importance of this plan for future business sustainability and growth.

Business proposal
To,
Operational General manager
“North Wharf” .
This is a proposal for resourcing that presented the approval to implement the E-commerce
within the enterprise. It is proposals that explains the requirements for human and physical
resource for execution of operation plan.

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Henceforth, as per the consultation with staff management the following needs are
identified as are-:
Human resource requirement-:
Particulars Number of resources
Online sales and customers
representatives
8
Drivers required for product delivery 4
Workers for warehouse 4
Total 16

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Requirements of physical resources-:
Particulars Number of resources
Delivery trucks 10
Forklifts 4
Office and warehouse space 1500 square meter (50% warehouse and 50% of display)

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In terms to fulfil these requirements the firm has make the initial investment in following
areas as-:
This is expected that initial investment is expected to be returned within three years. As per
discussion made with Chief financial officer, this has been identified that investment is
beneficial and it takes three years for giving returns to employees.

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According to the chief financial officer, these are as follows-:
1st Year after investment- $250,000
2nd Year after investment- $ 400,000
3rd Year after investment- $ 700,000
Present of future cash flow is $ 180,000+ $ 420,000+$ 600,000= $ 1350000.
Profitability index of such investment is 1.39 which is greater than 1 so the project is preferable.

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Organization faces the following risk if cannot adopts such operational plan and these as
are-:
 Enterprise fails to satisfy customers with their services.
 Earn low amount of profitability.
 This may not exist in future.

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Benefits to organization- The execution o the e-commerce strategy within the entity has
the following benefits and these as are-:
 It leads to bring improvement within quality of commodities and services.
 This aids to enhance the customer satisfaction.
 It assist in bringing improvement in sales profitability.
 This helps in gaining competitive advancement.