SMEs’ online trading activities to see strong development
The Vietnam e-business index report showed that 32 per cent of Vietnam's SMEs have established businesses with foreign partners through online channels.
Joining B2B (Business to Business) e-commerce platforms will help export enterprises directly approach customers, thereby expanding opportunities to access the global market and reducing costs relating to traditional trade promotion such as fairs and exhibitions, and open offices in target markets. Meanwhile, businesses could deal with customers through online channels or e-commerce websites.
According to a representative from the E-commerce Development Centre under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT)'s Vietnam E-commerce and Information Technology Agency (Vecita), Vietnamese enterprises have used online trading floors to find foreign partners and customers.
In fact, for traditional trading channels, besides cumbersome procedures, many businesses see huge expenditure when finding foreign partners or implementing trade promotion programmes.
Therefore, the online import and export channel is a great opportunity to reduce costs and time for businesses, especially SMEs looking for business partners, doing trade promotion, marketing products and implementing transactions and payments, according to the representative.
However, according to experts, the local enterprises, especially SMEs in Vietnam, still had difficulty accessing online trading activities because about 66 per cent of SMEs are of a tiny scale.
Nguyen Ngoc Dung, vice chairman of the Vietnam E-commerce Association, said the enterprises still had limitations in information and knowledge about e-commerce, especially cross-border e-commerce, leading to difficulties and inefficiencies in joining online export activities.
Sharing reasons on not really popularising the online export-import channel, Dung said that enterprises did not have enough skills to confidently sell their products online. The association had worked with many providers and consulting companies to support businesses in accessing websites to export products.
The association hoped businesses would have more experience in online trading activities to gain new customers, Dung said.
To support businesses applying e-commerce for import-export activities, the Vietnam Export Support Alliance had been established to seek support service packages to find customers and improve competitiveness in some neighbouring markets for local businesses, reported phapluatxahoi.vn.
Dung said cross-border e-commerce was becoming an important channel for businesses in export, he said that Vecom would strengthen promotion and training activities to make products from traditional craft villages available online.
In 2019, the MoIT plans to organise programmes to support businesses to enhance export capacity in online retailing and provide them with information on export opportunities.
Besides, the ministry will guide enterprises to improve their products’ designs and complete administrative procedures for export.
According to the ministry’s Vietnam E-commerce and Digital Economy Agency, Vietnam’s e-commerce has had strong growth with the highest rate of 30 per cent in 2018 rising to US$7.8 billion revenue from $4 billion in 2015.
If the growth rate of 2019 and 2020 continues to be at 30 per cent each year, the revenue by 2020 will reach $13 billion.
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