Subject clauses, object clauses, predicative clauses

ETHICS OF BUSINESS

UNIT 20

MODULE 4 BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

Comprehension check.

BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS

Comprehension check.

1. What services are offered by e-commerce businesses?

2. Why are service transactions of e-commerce businesses very popular with

travelers?

Business-to-business commerce represents one of the fastest growing segments of e-commerce. Businesses order supplies and coordinate complicated projects electronically. For example, construction companies use e-commerce to order construction materials and coordinate the work of subcontractors. Before e-commerce, this work was conducted via telephone, facsimile, and regular mail. Subcontractors often lost time waiting for necessary parts to arrive or for another part of the project to be completed. With e-commerce, however, software can automatically track the inventories of manufacturers and suppliers so that both have adequate supplies on hand and no longer need to have excess inventories. Reducing inventories enables both manufacturers and suppliers to lower costs. The labor-intensive method of printing and then faxing or mailing purchase orders can also be avoided because software can create purchase orders and send them electronically.

E-commerce helps trucking and shipping companies match shipments with shippers. Before e-commerce, it was not uncommon for trucks or ships to drop off a shipment and then return to their base of operations empty. This practice was inefficient and cost the trucking or shipping company money. Specialized e-commerce software, along with the Global Positioning System (GPS), enables trucking firms to track the whereabouts of their trucks at all times and make better decisions as to how their trucks are routed so they can respond efficiently and cost-effectively to companies that need their services, dramatically reducing the number of trucks returning empty.

1. What are the advantages of business-to-business transactions?

2. How does e-commerce help a) construction companies; b) trucking and shipping companies?

Grammar: Complex Sentences. Types of Clauses:

Assignment 1. Read and learn the following words and word combinations.

trade (commercial) secret – комерційна таємниця;

returns – доходи, прибутки;

to survive – виживати;

to point out – зазначати, вказувати;

to obey – підкорятися, виконувати накази;

to adhere (to)/to abide (by) – дотримуватися, виконувати;

consequence – наслідок;

to pertain (to) – стосуватися;

conduct – поведінка;

awareness – обізнаність, знання;

consistency – послідовність, узгодженість;

avoidance – уникнення;

disaster – біда, крах, катастрофа;

to state – точно визначати;

compilation – компіляція, збір;

jurisdiction – судочинство, юрисдикція;

subset – розподіл, розділ, тут частина;

to confer (on) – дарувати, надавати;

to disclose/to reveal – розкривати, розголошувати;

violation – порушення;

stiff – суворий;

penalty – стягнення, штраф;

to discover – довідуватися, розкривати;

to oblige – зобов’язувати, примушувати.

Assignment 2. Read and translate the text.

Дата добавления: 2014-11-29