E-COMMERCE: ONLINE BOOKING SYSTEM FOR AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY

Nowadays, Internet has become an important element in our day to day life. The
technology regarding Internet also has improved a lot since it is introduce a long
time ago. It created a borderless world for people to communicate and seek for
information and new knowledge. The project is about developing a web site for
automobile company that provides product information that available for sale. The
reason for this project is to encourage more Malaysians to use Internet as a medium
for online shopping to increase the rate of Internet usage in Malaysia, and to provide
an automobile service to people who interested to survey product information
through online. The objective of this project is to develop a website for automobile
industry. It is to promote and provide information to potential customers where it
can be accessed at anytime and anywhere using web browser. Next, is to develop 3D
car model using VRML in order to integrate with the company website. It is to
enhance the level of understanding and realism of product being sold through
Internet. The website is developed using System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
approach. It consists of four phases; analysis phase, design phase, development
phase, and evaluation phase. The methodology is used to plan the development of
the project. To evaluate the efficiency ofthe website in overcoming the problems, a
test has been conducted. From the test, it seems that the participants are willing to
try this kind ofservice and agree that automobile industry can gain benefits from the
Internet. As to conclude, we must firstly understand the drivers of the technology
innovation. Malaysia has a huge potential for Internet procurement and we shall not
wasting the advantage that we have.