Amazon focuses on convenience, selection range, and price. “We seek to offer the Earth's Biggest Selection and to be the Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they may want to buy online”. In addition to the direct retailing services, Amazon allows other small and medium sized businesses to sell their products through the company’s websites. The customers and business are able to complete their orders and transactions in Amazon’s websites. Other individuals such as authors, musicians, and filmmakers are also able to sell their products using the same platform.
Amazon.com Amazon, ranked 5th for its supply chain in the most recent Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 list, is a successful company that is looking to continuously improve. When analyzing Amazon’s supply chain, there are three of the seven principles of supply chain and two of the four pillars of excellence that strongly coincide with its strategy. This company should evaluate itself based on trends of three areas to help improve its supply chain; inventory turnover ratio, days payables outstanding, and net cash flows from operating activities. Amazon has a direct-to-consumer online and drop-shipment model which comes with many advantages (Amazon.com). This model allows Amazon to have millions of different inventories listed for sale without actually having it in inventory since a different manufacturer (who Amazon is partnered with) has it and ships it directly to the consumer.
“We seek to be the Earth’s most customer-centric company”, the operative word here is Earth’s. Amazon is definitely a global company that spans the entire earth they have websites in the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, China, France, Spain, Germany, Italy and Japan and anyone outside of those countries can access any of the Amazon websites of its choosing to do business. I believe Amazon’s mission statement addresses whom the customers are, it also touches on its major services which are selling goods, a platform for sellers to sell their goods and also providing a platform for developers, Amazon sells far too many goods to begin to list in a mission statement as they just about sell everything. The mission statement tackles their markets geographically it states it’s desire to be the Earth’s most customer-centric company. The mission statement doesn’t specifically address technology however one could infer that Amazon is current in technology if it tends to appeal to all customer on Earth in addition to attracting and retaining developer customers.
Time Warner’s businesses strive to gain competitive advantage from opportunities for useful collaboration. The company’s perspective is to become the world's most respected and valued company by connecting, informing and entertaining people everywhere in new ways that will improve their lives. Time Warner includes divisions such as Warner Bros, HBO, Turner Broadcasting, and popular magazines such as People and Time Magazine. AOL (America Online) is an American global Internet services and media company operated by Time Warner. Even though AOL does much more it is more recognized for the best known online software.
Xiaomeng Guo Assignment 1-2: Amazon.com: The Brink of Bankruptcy Abstract Amazon.com is one of the biggest international online-shopping Companies and the most familiar shopping website for every American. No matter if customers want to buy something or sell something, Amazon.com always is a good place for them. I still remember in 2010 I had an opportunity to interview with a Target manager. I asked him, "What is Target’s biggest competitor?" The manager said, "Amazon.com is our biggest competitor."
The shipping company is expanding its business to involve a symbiotic relationship between itself and any outside company that will integrate their technologies into their processes. FedEx is growing its wireless, billing, freight and international technologies to truly offer a well rounded solution for any small to large company’s shipping and supply chain management requirements. Largely web-based the technology solutions simplify and increase cost efficiencies of any company. One of the best parts of the FedEx software and product offerings is that companies can mix and match and add on any element that will benefit them. Supply chain management is an increasingly complex issue within companies, especially in today’s day and age.
* Online pioneer Tesco was an early pioneer of online shopping in the UK, via Tesco.com, and has always appeared to make useful profits from home delivery, extending into non-food and other markets through Tesco Direct, while Tesco’s click-and-collect capability and expertise is now being exported into Tesco’s overseas operations. Weaknesses * UK business mature and neglected Chief executive Philip Clarke inherited “long standing issues” in the UK that had built up during his predecessor Leahy’s
P5 Explain how internet marketing has made a selected business more efficient, effective and successful. The opportunities for business efficiency based on the increasing availability of the web technology which gives Perfect Paints all kinds of opportunities to speed up the interactions with both suppliers and customers. Therefore this can lead to a number of efficiencies. Firstly, the supply chain efficiencies is when a business will always be both a buyer and a seller, buying products from other businesses, buying product from others and selling to others or private consumers. A company like Perfect Paints has to buy the materials it used before it can sell finished products.
The influence of Internet on people’s life. There is a big influence of Internet in our daily life. It is becoming more and more important for almost everybody. This medium has changed our life enormously, there is no doubt about that. There are many advantages that show its importance.
Amazon is an American electronic commerce company that has become an icon of internet business. Jeff Bezos founded the company in 1994 and launched it online in 1995 as an online bookstore. However, the logo soon became symbolic as they started to sell everything from A to Z. Time magazine names Bezos “1999 Person of the Year” and said, “Bezos’ vision of the online retailing universe was so complete, his Amazon.com site so elegant and appealing that it became from Day One the Point of reference for anyone who had anything to sell online.” Strengths • Well established web brand • Loyal customers base of over 12million shoppers • Distribution facilities to handle growth and fulfillment • Leader in use of technology to delivery targeted content • Excellent offline customer service • Building international presence in markets outside of the USA • Has moved away form being a low price supplier of books toward a focus on delivering outstanding service at a price Weaknesses • Amazon.com brand has been diluted by entering a wide number of product segments, increasing competition • Need to restructure business to drive toward profitability has meant upward pressure on prices • No offline brand presence • Insufficient community added value • Now competes as a mass merchant, allowing specialty stores to identify with particular segment, e.g. Barnes and Noble - books, eToys - Toys, Home Depot - Tools.