Selecting an electronic platform supplier via tendering process in Russia
Akusok, Julia (2019)
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Akusok, Julia
2019
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201903253748
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201903253748
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The purpose of this study is to define what is the most feasible e-commerce business platform for the Russian consumer market and what Russian company is the best solution provider for a new Finnish company.
The e-commerce platform market in Russia is enormous, and there are plenty of companies providing this service. The companies differ from each other by size, location, cost, experience, references, Content Management Systems they provide, delivery time, additional services such as internet marketing SEO promotion, and content advertising. There are some of their own Russian Content Management Systems such as Bitrix in the Russian market. So far, selecting an e-platform supplier in the Russian market has been a challenge for a new company. Because of this, the research of this field is important.
The research problem was to define a suitable e-platform supplier in Russia. Objectives were to give a detailed picture of the tendering process, and to provide a full picture of supplier selection and evaluation process.
This is applied research and the case company of this project is a new e-commerce company, Finozon. The company is not established yet. They would like to launch their e- commerce business in spring 2019 after finding a suitable supplier for e-platform. Their business area is internet retail. They would like to sell to the Russian consumer market. Consumer products include; electronics, design, apparel, sport, health and beauty products, and products for pets.
During this thesis we found out about the Russian e-commerce market opportunities for outsourcing e-commerce services and Russian e-commerce market opportunities for a new business, the tendering process, supplier selection and evaluation criteria in IT procurement projects.
The knowledge base of this project leads to tendering process, evaluation criteria and supplier selection in IT-procurement. This thesis identifies and describes the evaluation criteria and supplier selection process. The thesis structure includes; an introduction, two theoretical parts, practical part, conclusions and development suggestions and findings.
The e-commerce platform market in Russia is enormous, and there are plenty of companies providing this service. The companies differ from each other by size, location, cost, experience, references, Content Management Systems they provide, delivery time, additional services such as internet marketing SEO promotion, and content advertising. There are some of their own Russian Content Management Systems such as Bitrix in the Russian market. So far, selecting an e-platform supplier in the Russian market has been a challenge for a new company. Because of this, the research of this field is important.
The research problem was to define a suitable e-platform supplier in Russia. Objectives were to give a detailed picture of the tendering process, and to provide a full picture of supplier selection and evaluation process.
This is applied research and the case company of this project is a new e-commerce company, Finozon. The company is not established yet. They would like to launch their e- commerce business in spring 2019 after finding a suitable supplier for e-platform. Their business area is internet retail. They would like to sell to the Russian consumer market. Consumer products include; electronics, design, apparel, sport, health and beauty products, and products for pets.
During this thesis we found out about the Russian e-commerce market opportunities for outsourcing e-commerce services and Russian e-commerce market opportunities for a new business, the tendering process, supplier selection and evaluation criteria in IT procurement projects.
The knowledge base of this project leads to tendering process, evaluation criteria and supplier selection in IT-procurement. This thesis identifies and describes the evaluation criteria and supplier selection process. The thesis structure includes; an introduction, two theoretical parts, practical part, conclusions and development suggestions and findings.