Marketing
Autor: peterghali • November 25, 2016 • Study Guide • 344 Words (2 Pages) • 807 Views
- How do Amazon.com’s logistics and supply chain management activities help the company create value for its customers?
Amazon’s logistics and supply chain management activities help the company create value for its customers by fulfilling the customers’ orders in a reliable accurate cost efficient way. Its supply chain has been organized in a cost-effective way and its goal is to get the product to its customers on time and efficiently.
By maintain 7 distribution centres around the world that house over 2.7 million items of inventory, Amazon delivers on its orders in a record time that does not break the consumer’s pocketbooks.
By offering tons of items for sale and making sure they arrive in an efficient way, Amazon offers lots of more choices and reasonable shipping rates. What is not to love.
- What systems did Amazon develop to improve the flow of products from supplies to Amazon distribution centres?
The use of technology to group orders of the same products for different consumers allowed it to meet consumer demands in an efficient way.
Secondly, by delivering each order to the closet distribution centre, it allows for a faster delivery and ordering.
Lastly, the automation of the packaging, labelling and the use of conveyer belts helped speed the process of delivering to the distribution centre.
What systems improved the flow of orders from the distribution centres to customers?
The technology that automates the order to be sent to the closest distribution centre. Furthermore, the automation of the labelling and the packaging and the optimization of orders for consumers of the same products.
- Why will logistics and supply chain management play an important role in the future success of Amazon.com?
The core of the operations costs of Amazon services are in the supply chain. If those costs are contained in an efficient supply chain process, Amazon can improve on its margins as well as offer prices for its products that will eventually increase market share and the bottom line. Logistics and supply chain management is essential for Amazon to deliver goods and services that provide values to customers.
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