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Department of Posts is heading towards e-commerce sector in order to facilitate national markets for rural entrepreneurs. The new initiative is modelled after the pilot e-commerce implemented at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. Venture of Indian Post into e-commerce will promote small and middle-level manufacturers, artisans, craftsmen and weavers in the rural areas. They will be benefited just like the urban manufacturers and business entrepreneurs. S. Rajendra Kumar, Postmaster General, South Karnataka region, confirmed on Wednesday that the suggestion of introducing e-commerce platform was recently received.

The postal department was told to look for products suitable for portal marketing. “We are in the process of establishing links with rural entrepreneurs, weavers, artisans, craftsmen and others and enter into an understanding with them for marketing their produce to the clientele across the country,” he informed. When asked about the time of expected roll-out, Mr. Kumar said, “The roll-out is expected soon with at least a few products.” Postmaster general said Channapatna toys are proposed to be included in the e-commerce biz.

Mr. Kumar said, “Our venture is different from entities in the e-commerce business as our initiative is only to market the rural produce. It does not sell branded commercial goods but products like honey and coffee from Coorg as being done at Postal Shoppee.” On the question of status tie-ups with rural entrepreneurs, he said, “The postal divisions are exploring the possibilities of an agreement with the groups or societies of weavers, craftsmen, and others.” Mr. Kumar confirmed that a link will be available on the India Post website for those who wish to access the e-commerce portal, “Anybody sitting in the remotest corner of the country can order for the products available in another corner. With an unbeatable network, the delivery will be faster.”

NEW DELHI: Issues related to small and medium enterprises, e-commerce and the World Trade Organisation will be discussed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his counterparts at the BRICS summit in Russia.

BRICS members include Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The meet is for two days and will be beginning on Wednesday. It is conducted to focus on issues related to economic cooperation

“While India will give its full support for proposed cooperation in the SME sector and the WTO, it will express its reservations in e-commerce,” the official added.

BRICS members, especially Russia, aims at strengthening barrier free environment which is really important for the better environment between partner countries.

PM Modi insists that inside each country, the development of e-commerce should happen within the existing policy framework.  Presentl,y India allows 100% FDI in business-to-business e-commerce but bars business-to-consumer segment.

Strategy of WTO

For a work programme at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the five nations will be working together on a joint strategy. Next WTO Ministerial meeting will be held at Nairobi in December. The main objective of the meeting is to reach an agreement on selected issues from the whole gamut of areas being negotiated under the Doha Round launched in 2001.

“The BRICS nations need to work together to ensure that the developed countries do not get away by pushing for only the issues of interest to them and that developing country interests are also taken care of,” the official said.

Other Meetings

The inaugural meeting of the BRICS-backed New Development Bank is scheduled to conduct along with the BRICS meeting.  Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will be attending the inaugural. The meeting of trade ministers will be attended by Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Along with the BRICS meetings, Modi will also be participating in bilateral meetings with his counterparts from South Africa and China.

There has been a lot of hype about the growing business opportunities in China. As a result, many companies have operated their businesses in the country. Some of them have been successful while some failed. The reason analysts say is that foreign multi-national companies have been slow in identifying the shift towards online shopping in China.

China’s e-commerce market has grown by almost 50% since last year. A research by Nielsen reveals that half of China’s consumers are purchasing groceries online compared to a quarter globally.

The research has questioned the survival of Fonterra in the market, which aims at enhancing product sales in China by tackling online challenges. However, the company has not announced about going online while announcing its distribution partnership with Chinese baby milk maker Beingmate Baby & Child last year.

Fonterra hopes that the tie-up will benefit the sales of its Anmum infant formula brand in China. Achyut Kasireddy, the company's vice president of greater China brands said, "Previously in China, physical reach was a key driver of success but that is rapidly changing with the growth in e-commerce and innovative marketing platforms." He said that products under the Fonterra brand that includes Anmum and Anchor already have strong online presence through various Chinese e-commerce platforms, including Alibaba's Tmall.com.

"In the case of Anmum, we saw positive results with online sales during its pilot phase and our partnership with Beingmate will take it to the next level," Kasireddy said.

With the revolutionary website for ‘Discharge Accelerator’ created by Probytes, hospitals can now easily work on reducing the discharge time of their patients. The idea of introducing such a website is to make the process of discharge structured and more organised. The discharging process being a time consuming and tedious task, the use of this website from Probytes can prove to be useful.

Probytes has put in the efforts to help hospitals improve their services with discharge accelerator website. The website is also a solution for hospitals to shift from the regular paper work to an electronic health record system. This has also help hospitals to reduce the human effort needed for these paper works.

The processes involved in discharge are made more organised and efficient with the help of these websites. The website categorizes the discharge process into 11 steps, with each step being handled by a team dedicated to it; patients can now be free from those never ending discharge episodes.

Steps involved in discharge

• Discharge initiation is the primary step involved and is controlled by a nurse with the guidance of a doctor.
• Writing a discharge summary which is handled by a nurse or assistant doctor.
• A discharge summary team drafts a summary to be reviewed by a doctor.
• The summary is reviewed by the doctor and any necessary suggestions are made.
• The discharge summary team approves the summary once the doctor is satisfied with it and is used in the following steps of discharge.
• Simultaneously a billing team begins reviewing the billing details.
• Checking for insurance and adding its details to finalize the bill is the job for insurance teams.
• The next step involves the payment of bill which is checked by the billing team.
• Providing the patient with the required medicines is a task handled by the pharmacy.
• After the completion of these steps the patient is discharged.
• As the final step the room is made ready for the next patient to occupy.

With the Discharge Accelerator website from Probytes these procedures can be taken care of quickly and easily from the nurse’s workstation. It is also possible to monitor the time taken to complete each of these steps using a discharge accelerator app in a mobile device. This helps identify where exactly time is being wasted; thereby helping management teams to improve discharge time to achieve patient satisfaction.

KIMS hospital in Kerala have begun using discharge accelerator website and have reported a considerable improvement in discharge time. They are also profited by the website’s ability to organise and streamline operation within the hospital. The greatest benefit of using websites to handle discharge is that nurses and other staff needn’t visit each department to analyse a patient’s discharge status. It gives them the power to operate from their work stations with the discharge accelerator website.

Everybody who is somebody in WordPress will be quite familiar about the WooCommerce plug-in, which is solely responsible for driving WordPress.com with all its Online Store capabilities. This open-source plug-in with a global download of around 7.5 million it is easily one of WordPress’s most popular plug-in. This is the sole reason why Automattic, which is the company behind WordPress.com went ahead and acquired WooCommerce.

Even though it is said to be the biggest acquisition by Automattic till date, the exact price is still a mystery.

A great move

The plug-in that launched on September 2011 already powers around 600,000 WordPress storefronts and the number just keeps on rising. With the acquisition of WooCommerce, the impact WordPress has on the e-commerce industry will leave no stones unturned.

Adding products is made as easy as adding a new blog post. If you want to take payments, it comes with PayPal support and if you want to use Stripe/Amazon Payments/etc, all you need to do is just grab one of their extensions. It can even help you with shipping logistics, inventory management and analytics.

Previously Automattic had also bought a WordPress security Plug-in “Brute Project” from within its own plug-in store.