Amazon.com

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Amazon.com

• By Daniel Iannacone

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Amazon.com Overview

• Amazon.com is an American e-commerce company
  based in Seattle, Washington. It was one of the
  first major companies to sell goods over the
  Internet.
• It was one of the iconic stocks of the late 1990s
  dot-com bubble (a speculative bubble covering
  roughly 19952001 during which stock markets in
  Western nations saw their value increase rapidly
  from growth in the new Internet sector).
• The company was launched in 1995 and began as an
  online bookstore under the name of Cadabra.com,
  the name was soon changed.
• The company turned its first profit in the 4th
  quarter 2001.
• Amazon sells over 20 different product lines,
  including books, DVDs, lawn garden, apparel,
  toys, electronics, jewelry, automotive products,
  and many others.
• Estimated 15 billion in sales in 2007.
• Now the worlds largest online retailer.

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E-Commerce

• Amazon.com uses many commerce innovations such as
  electronic funds transfer, internet marketing,
  online transaction processing, electronic data
  interchange, inventory management systems.
• Amazon.com has many partnerships and also powers
  and hosts the websites of many companies such as
  Walden Books, Borders, Virgin Megastores, CDNOW,
  Target, Bebe Stores, Sears Canada, NBA, Lacoste,
  and many others.
• You can purchase new products, or buy and sell
  used items via auctions style on Amazon.com, a
  fee is charged only if you sell the item.
• Amazon.com is a Business-to-Consumer and a
  Business-to-Business company.
• As of September 2007, Amazon.com added a
  new MP3 store which allows the purchase of
  MP3 formatted songs
  as downloadable files.

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Supply Chain Management

• Supply chain management is the management of the
  flow of materials, information, and funds across
  the entire supply chain, from suppliers to
  component producers to final assemblers to
  distribution centers, and ultimately to the
  consumer.
• Amazon.com is known to be excellent at managing
  the flow of information and funds, by way of the
  Internet and electronic funds transfer.
• Amazon.com has software development centers all
  over the world, in countries such as England,
  Scotland, China, Japan, India, Africa, and
  Romania.
• Warehousing is ever larger, with 14 facilities in
  North America, 10 facilities in Europe, and 4
  faculties in Asia.
• Most facilities are near major airports.

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How the products get to you