Case study on amazon.com's supply chain management practices | MBAtiousaneesh p
The case study provides an overview of Amazon.com's inventory management. Jeffrey Preston Bezos the founder of Amazon.com launched the company when he realized that Internet provided immense scope for online trading. Although the site was originally launched as an online bookstore it eventually offered several other products to keep abreast of the competition. The case study takes a look at the different products and features offered on the site. The case also discusses Amazon's value propositions and its criteria for choosing strategic partners.
Case study on amazon.com's supply chain management practices | MBAtiousaneesh p
The case study provides an overview of Amazon.com's inventory management. Jeffrey Preston Bezos the founder of Amazon.com launched the company when he realized that Internet provided immense scope for online trading. Although the site was originally launched as an online bookstore it eventually offered several other products to keep abreast of the competition. The case study takes a look at the different products and features offered on the site. The case also discusses Amazon's value propositions and its criteria for choosing strategic partners.
In early June 2013, Amazon launched their Amazon India marketplace without any marketing campaigns. In July 2013, Flipkart announced a funding of $ 1 Billion immediately after which, Amazon said it will invest $ 2 Billion in India to expand business. Amazon came up with a dynamic distribution system because of which they were able to deliver the products in as less as a day. This was their USP along with the wide variety of products. This is a report that sheds light on the products and services of Amazon India, discussion on the channels adopted by them, the ATL and BTL promotions and finally the evaluation of the channel effectiveness.
Online Retailing, Amazon is the place where you can buy books or any other things through online. The case talks about EDN system which needed to be built by the Amazon's Europe to improve their business process in those Areas.
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AMAZON.COM’S EUROPEAN DISTRIBUTION STRATEGYHüseyin Tekler
Amazon.com, Inc., known as Amazon, is an e-commerce and cloud computing company based in the United States. Founded on July 5, 1994, by Jeff Bezos in Seattle, United States. It is the world's largest shopping site in terms of both total sales volume and market value. Considering that Amazon sales thousands of kinds of products in many countries, it is clear that there is a need for highly developed SCM. To start with, Amazon’s SCM has a strategic fit with its competitive strategy of being the retailer of choice for its customers. The combination of multi-tier inventory management, superlative transportation, and highly efficient use of IT, and its wide network of warehouses are all geared towards aligning its SCM with its competitive strategy. In this paper, a detailed review of Amazon's SCM will be made.
See how Amazon leverages its supply chain as a critical flywheel in its success. Included in the report are value chain analysis, inventory, transportation and fulfillment, cash conversion cycle, and fulfillment space.
Crosscheck: Intergation Methods, Supply Chain Management and the Boeing 787 D...Herbert Ferguson-Augustus
As a part of Communication course at the University of Minnesota, Herbert B. Ferguson-Augustus researched the supply chain management practices at the Boeing Company during the 787 Dreamliner Program. Research focuses on how Boeing integrated its Tier I suppliers into the design and production processes. Research findings are discussed here.
In early June 2013, Amazon launched their Amazon India marketplace without any marketing campaigns. In July 2013, Flipkart announced a funding of $ 1 Billion immediately after which, Amazon said it will invest $ 2 Billion in India to expand business. Amazon came up with a dynamic distribution system because of which they were able to deliver the products in as less as a day. This was their USP along with the wide variety of products. This is a report that sheds light on the products and services of Amazon India, discussion on the channels adopted by them, the ATL and BTL promotions and finally the evaluation of the channel effectiveness.
Online Retailing, Amazon is the place where you can buy books or any other things through online. The case talks about EDN system which needed to be built by the Amazon's Europe to improve their business process in those Areas.
I have participated in this presentation and it was a great work with indian Classmate, SCMHRD. Through this presentation you will receive information that how cobote works inside the company. you will learn more about the inventory system of the Amazon
AMAZON.COM’S EUROPEAN DISTRIBUTION STRATEGYHüseyin Tekler
Amazon.com, Inc., known as Amazon, is an e-commerce and cloud computing company based in the United States. Founded on July 5, 1994, by Jeff Bezos in Seattle, United States. It is the world's largest shopping site in terms of both total sales volume and market value. Considering that Amazon sales thousands of kinds of products in many countries, it is clear that there is a need for highly developed SCM. To start with, Amazon’s SCM has a strategic fit with its competitive strategy of being the retailer of choice for its customers. The combination of multi-tier inventory management, superlative transportation, and highly efficient use of IT, and its wide network of warehouses are all geared towards aligning its SCM with its competitive strategy. In this paper, a detailed review of Amazon's SCM will be made.
See how Amazon leverages its supply chain as a critical flywheel in its success. Included in the report are value chain analysis, inventory, transportation and fulfillment, cash conversion cycle, and fulfillment space.
Crosscheck: Intergation Methods, Supply Chain Management and the Boeing 787 D...Herbert Ferguson-Augustus
As a part of Communication course at the University of Minnesota, Herbert B. Ferguson-Augustus researched the supply chain management practices at the Boeing Company during the 787 Dreamliner Program. Research focuses on how Boeing integrated its Tier I suppliers into the design and production processes. Research findings are discussed here.
How implementing lean technologies into your supply chain can reduce lead times from 15 days to less than two. In the past, manufacturing was vertically integrated and the suppliers were located within a short radius. Manufacturing today is less integrated and the suppliers are global. Only through supplier collaboration can information be controlled and automatically computed.
This case study report is detail analysis of Amazon.com. The report describes the List of areas that
it has been working, the business models it has adopted and the various strategies that it has
implemented to make it one of the most successful E-commerce platform. This case study reflects
that using the strategies and model adopted by Amazon's can leads any other E-commerce site to get
successful. This case study also shows that how the different models and strategies must be
implemented with respect to the dynamic environment of the E-commerce.
Amazon might be the number 1 distributor of the last decade, re-inventing industries through Ecommerce, through a strategic focus on the customer. This report examines some of the tactics used by Amazon across industries.
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Amazon big success using big data analyticsKovid Academy
Today, Big Data is everywhere, but the key problem is – it is too big to tackle and, too complex to evaluate and draw insights from. Also, Big Data Analytics relatively being a state-of-the-art concept, there is a lack of copious knowledge and expertise in the field of Big Data, which is often leading most organizations to misuse their data.
A presentation on Amazon's Corporate Branding. The information in the presentation is collated with the help of both primary and secondary data and is not sponsored by Amazon. It covers Corporate identity, communication strategy, governance and other aspects related to public relations, investor relations, advertising, marketing, etc.
For sustaining in market companies have to plan their strategy to cope with current trends & buying behavior of culture rather then following traditional philosophy. For continuous growth one has to plan before & apply in timely manner.
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Managerial Report for Case Problem “Amazon.com lnc.”
Executive Summary
Today, Amazon is no longer the “online book-selling store” people used to be familiar with, but a very diversified company with an open platform. It not only has a third-party vendor platform that can attract numerous customers but also has achieved a good result in the logistics, film, and television industry. Moreover, Amazon is one of the first group of enterprises to enter the cloud service. Amazon’s leader Jeff Bezos proposed Amazon’s exclusive flywheel business model, which totally demonstrates his business insights and philosophy. Amazon ranks among the world’s top companies through its strengths in customer experience, logistics, cloud services, etc. Also, Amazon has been devoted to the technological area such as artificial intelligence and cloud services. Even faced with intense competition from the leading technology companies like Microsoft, IBM, and Google, Amazon has achieved excellent performance. This report will analyze Amazon’s flywheel model and its core competency, also introduce the competition between Amazon and Microsoft in cloud services and the future development direction of Amazon.
The Business Model of Amazon
Amazon has three core businesses. The first one is Amazon Prime, it is a paid membership system. When customer become a member of Amazon Prime, they can purchase any products on Amazon.com and enjoy free and fast delivery. The second one is the third-party seller platform, Individual merchants can create an online store on Amazon to sell their products. The third one is the AWS (Amazon Web Service). It’s a cloud service and offers a broad set of global cloud-based products including compute, storage or databases and so on. These services help organizations move faster, lower IT costs and scale (Cloud Products, Amazon Official Website). Whether a startup or a large enterprise, they can build their company’s IT system on Amazon’s cloud service system. It’s cheaper and more stable than building your own system.
These three core business looks unprofitable at first, but in fact, they are like a small saw tooth on a huge gear. The Prime and low price product can let the customer keep purchasing on Amazon, while the cloud and logistic service keep the supplier to work with Amazon. More suppliers will attract more customers, vice versa, the more the customers purchase, the more supplier is inseparable with Amazon. These have enabled Amazon to gain more with costs fixed (like logistics and warehouse) and provide customers with a lower price and turns the huge flywheel. Turning the stationary flywheel up must spend a lot of efforts at the beginning. However, in fact, every effort will not be wasted, and the flywheel will turn faster and faster. When a high speed is reached, no more effort is required and the flywheel can maintain its original state of motion.
Amazon’s Core Competency
Amazon’s success relies on robust operations, strict management.
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IMC assignment
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The introduction, targeted customers, advertising, media, pricing and budgeting during a product launch of 3doodler pen.
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Narayana Health Care University
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3. Amazon.com’s SupplyChain ManagementPractices
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Abstract
The case provides an overview of Amazon.com's inventory management. Jeffrey Preston Bezos the
founder of Amazon.com launched the company when he realized that Internet provided immense scope
for online trading. Although the site was originally launched as an online bookstore it eventually offered
severalother products to keep abreast of the competition. The case takes a look at the different products
and features offered on the site. The case also discusses Amazon's value propositions and its criteria for
choosing strategic partners. It then elaborates on the strategies adopted by Amazon for managing its
inventory.It also explains Amazon's decision to outsource inventory management to distributors. The case
takes a look at Amazon's decision to sell the products of competing retailers on its site. It concludes with
a brief note on the future challenges in Amazon's warehouse management.
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Introduction
Amazon.com (Amazon) is one of the first online shopping sites launched in 1995. Since its inception, it
has been consistently ranked as one of the best retail sites on the Internet and is regarded as the universal
model for successfulInternet retailing. In March 1998, Amazon was ranked among the top 20 internet
sites in almost all the major market surveys.
According to an analyst, “When you think of web shopping, you think of Amazon first.” The
ForresterPower Rankingsin 2000, ranked Amazon as the best online shopping site. Amazon owed a large
part of its popularity to its excellent customer service,which was due to its exemplary inventory
management.Amazon realized that there were a lot of players in the e-tailing industry and therefore it
needed to consolidate its position as one of the best online shopping sites. Accordingly, it took several
measures. In order to increase its revenue, it added severalnew products to its site. In 1999, on an
average,it added a new product on its site once in every six weeks.It entered into strategic alliances with
severalcompanies to increase the range of products available on its site. Later,it strengthened its
Customer Fulfilment Network by obtaining products directly from the distributors rather than stocking all
the goods in its warehouse. Amazon was popular among its customers for shipping the goods within the
estimated time, leading to satisfied customers, improved market share and repeat business. By the end of
2002, Amazon had 22.3 million registered users on its site. By 2003, Amazon became the biggest book,
music and video retailer on the Internet and offered more than 4.7 million books, videos, music CDs,
DVDs,computer games and other products.
Further, Amazon had the distinction of being the first e-commerce site to use collaborative filtering
technology. Amazon's immediate business goal was to 'get big fast' which reflected the driving force
behind the company's growth.
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1) Put yourselfin customer's shoes: at Amazon,they care so much about customers and this is not just
something fancy to say. In many internal meetings, Bezos leaves one empty chair next to him and tell
people that they should also think on behalf of one important customer who can't manage to be there.
Then the word "empty chair" becomes a symbol of customer centric business practices inside Amazon.
Also, many executives have to attend call center training so they can know customer's feedback,good or
bad, firsthand.
Update 9 Sep 2013:I just come across one interesting discussion on Quora saying that Amazon actually
named one of its building "Wainwright"after its first customer and this customer still have the original
book and packing slip with him. This is something remarkable!
2) Don't be distracted by the competition: many companies focus on benchmarking performance
against competitors but this is not the case for Amazon. Bezos believes that the pace of industry change is
too fast so it's not good to make knee jerk reaction after competitors do something new. What Amazon
does is to acknowledge what happens but keep focusing on it customer's needs.
3) Keep an eye on the ball: "culture of metrics" is the word used to described the obsession over the
performance measurement. They're currently tracking about 500 KPIs and 80% of them are customer
related.
4) Go extra mile: Bezos once insisted on using better quality box so customer can reuse it. And when
Amazon's brand is on every box, it's the free publicity. He also pushed many executives at DCs to extend
order closing time to 6pm or 7pm, even though this means over-time cost to Amazon.
5) Plant seeds and watch them grow: the example of this philosophy is that Amazon invests in many
hardware technologies that don't make any short-term gain just to make sure that they build Kindle that
people love.
6) Learn to improvise: Amazon asks candidates to make action plans, outside their comfort zone, with
the assumption that there will be no budget for such plan, to test how each candidate react to unfamiliar
business issues. As mentioned earlier, the pace of industry change is fast so they need people who can
think outside the box.
7) Build the dream team: Amazon believes small work team is more efficient. To determine the right
size of each team, they've developed a "rule of thumb". If it needs more than 2 pizzas to feed the team,
that team is too big (so I name it "2-Pizza Heuristics").