Online Grocery Purchase Business Model
Pattu Raj, Ram Kumar (2022)
2022
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2022112524016
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2022112524016
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With post pandemic era starting after the Covid-19, the e-commerce industry has been a considerable growth. Delivery of products and consumer goods has seen a precipitous rise currently. E-commerce and e-business have now come close to each other service delivery has become an integral part of online business. The aim of this master’s thesis was to develop an e-commerce application that help customer to order grocery online from shops in their locality. The business model streamlines the procurement method to improve efficiency and time with added advantage of reducing commutation thereby pollution. Deliver a quality product as a service to approach customer and earn the value is the business model theoretically explained in the thesis.
To achieve that aim it was decided to develop a web service core application using J2EE technology with a Java programming language. A tomcat servlet container was used as the web server and MySQL database for storing the information. The grocery product information obtained from shop website as RSS content are polled, anatomized, and saved in database. This information is available for the mobile application client as Rest API endpoints pertaining to every shop categorized based on city. Location based service offered to customer, helps them to purchase grocery from local store with competitive pricing advantage.
The objective of the thesis was to develop an online grocery business model that helps customer to order products and goods, irrespective of the brand or shop. Using location based service and efficacious algorithms the procurement is planned and purchased from larger outlet malls at competitive price. Based on the number stores visited and goods acquired a minimal fee is levied to the invoice. From customer point of view, the expense is saved, and delivery is received at doorstep.
Although this project was an internal work during the master’s thesis project, the online grocery purchase concept still carries a significant potential for future upgrading and a wide utilization in the e-commerce market. The application and the thesis concept if realized will have overwhelming response from the shop and the end users. Futuristic strategy would be to provide the service to customer with different language options and a region-based service.
To achieve that aim it was decided to develop a web service core application using J2EE technology with a Java programming language. A tomcat servlet container was used as the web server and MySQL database for storing the information. The grocery product information obtained from shop website as RSS content are polled, anatomized, and saved in database. This information is available for the mobile application client as Rest API endpoints pertaining to every shop categorized based on city. Location based service offered to customer, helps them to purchase grocery from local store with competitive pricing advantage.
The objective of the thesis was to develop an online grocery business model that helps customer to order products and goods, irrespective of the brand or shop. Using location based service and efficacious algorithms the procurement is planned and purchased from larger outlet malls at competitive price. Based on the number stores visited and goods acquired a minimal fee is levied to the invoice. From customer point of view, the expense is saved, and delivery is received at doorstep.
Although this project was an internal work during the master’s thesis project, the online grocery purchase concept still carries a significant potential for future upgrading and a wide utilization in the e-commerce market. The application and the thesis concept if realized will have overwhelming response from the shop and the end users. Futuristic strategy would be to provide the service to customer with different language options and a region-based service.