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In view of all the benefits and risk that the e-commerce that are presented, I would suggest that a phase integration. Phase 1, Beta launch of the system to 'test the water' of the new market. During this initial stage, dedicated marketing/sales team are grouped to target the US SME (whereas that market can adopt much easier). Phase 2, Integrate the E-commerce with their Key existing customers which allow the Key existing customer to benefit from the same process. Phase 3, integrate the entire E-commerce module within its infrastructure to further improve its outstanding supply chain management system. If at any stage that the management finds that the project is not anymore feasible, then it is recommended to cut the losses. In view of the possible complains of the existing customer, LF can offer certain exclusivity for the key customers on some design in which would help the key customer to maintain competitive. Also, some further discount on the commission scheme could be offered to key customer for larger bulk ordering. As the technology being developed, it is always an option to consider the use of a more standardized platform( off the shelf product) that can efficiently linked with LF intranet/extranet as the setup cost would be minimal and maintenance as well. To the end, LF should not loss its focus on what it is good at: the entire holistic supply chain management system that LF has implemented for the past decade that made its success. In view of the possible failure of the system, an option is to use Distributed DBMS. The Distributed database is several databases which relates to each other and they all have the same information. However, they can have different policies and different management on them. This is why, if one of them in anywhere faces failure, the others still keeps on working and no user gets error caused by that failure. These databases might be at different part of the globe with the least shared information.

Finally, security measures is an important. To avoid unauthorized usage, administrators can put secure gates on some of these layers. Gateways are useful for one of these layers and firewall for the other one. Antivirus, anti spam, anti worm, and etc are useful for the last top layer which is application layer and can be programmed. E-commerce is no longer an aesthetic gesture, but a necessary and vital part of the future. Failure to acknowledge and embrace technology can leave a company exposed to competitive threats and functional obsolescence.