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Pharma Industry in line with Online Trends

Ecommerce has become the trend on which the companies are relying upon for the futuristic development. In a way, today every organization irrespective of the industrial vertical is certainly dependent on the information and communication technology. More on to it, most of the business is already gaining a considerable amount of business from the ecommerce mode of their business. With the advent development of technology, there is access for the companies to look forward to the global market. Unlike the earlier times, where to have presence in exports and imports, pharma companies had to have a vivid network of distribution channels, multiple-layers of networking and other aspects, today it has become very simple process. There are numerous B2B portals, which are presenting the opportunities for suppliers and buyers to get to know each other thru online medium. In fact, this medium itself is transforming in to a business sector. Such is the kind of penetration which the ecommerce has in to the pharma and other industrial verticals and their businesses. When we look in to the intrinsic aspects of how this kind of development can leverage the market potential for pharma companies, the research studies indicate that the kind of cost of sale which the company use to encounter earlier has come down drastically for this companies. The other major advantage of ecommerce business model which the Pharma companies are gaining is the kind of business growth in EXIM segment. Earlier as the companies use to depend a lot on the intermediaries for EXIM, there use to be a tight margins and no direct access to the export markets, however with the use of ecommerce the companies are able to overcome this issue in an effective manner. Social Media is one of the prevalent sources of networking which the companies are capitalizing across the industrial verticals. Social Media sites like twitter, Face book and professional networking websites like LinkedIn, has only created a great leverage to the companies, and the way the companies are today depending on this medium is far from what is anticipated. Most of the companies are having social medium to drive their business growth. More to the social medium, the companies are also depending on the business analytics and business intelligence systems to work on the customer expectations and the demands across the global market. One of the major mileages which the companies have from the ecommerce mode of business, is the improved CRM process. Today the companies are able to constantly stay in touch with their customers at a very economical cost and are able to have a clear review of their market value and change their dynamics accordingly.