Amazon
Amazon
1. INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................................................4
2. BUSINESS STRATEGY.....................................................................................................................4
2.1. Amazons Global Market Strategy.....................................................................................................4
2.2. Amazon Prime Video.......................................................................................................................6
2.3. Machine learning AT Amazon..........................................................................................................7
2.4. Product recommendations.................................................................................................................8
3. The Effect of Price On E-Commerce Platforms: Statistical Evaluation Of Amazon's Pricing Strategy
9
3.1. Background......................................................................................................................................9
3.2. Pricing Strategy and Sales................................................................................................................9
4. TECHNOLOGY..................................................................................................................................9
4.1. Amazon Web Services......................................................................................................................9
4.2. Smart Home – A New Marketing Era.............................................................................................11
4.2.1: Smart Home Outline....................................................................................................................11
4.2.2: Smart Home Categories...............................................................................................................12
4.2.3: Smart Home Development...........................................................................................................12
5. References:........................................................................................................................................13
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Figure 1: Amazons Global Market Strategy – Assignment Help....................................................4
Figure 2: Amazon FBA - AMZSouct.............................................................................................4
Figure 3: Amazon prime video - Amazon.......................................................................................5
Figure 4: Amazon Global Retail Revenue - BI Intelligence............................................................6
Figure 5: Machine learning AT Amazon – AWS............................................................................6
Figure 6: Amazon web services - AWS..........................................................................................9
Figure 7: Amazon Alexa - Amazon...............................................................................................11
Figure 8: Alexa home smart - Amazon..........................................................................................12
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Table 1: Amazon Prime Video Services - Business wire.............................................................................6
Table 2: Amazon Web Services.................................................................................................................10
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1. INTRODUCTION
Starting as an online bookstore in 1995, Amazon.com Inc. (hereinafter “Amazon”) has grown to be
the world’s largest online retailer, operating more than 361 fulfillment centers, Prime Now hubs,
and other facilities in 14 different countries as of January 2017. It sells almost everything from
electronics to baby and beauty products to gardening tools to music and videos, among vast others
(Hahn, Kim and Youn, 2018). Despite the ups and downs and the misgivings of the Wall Street
throughout the years, Amazon and its founder Jeff Bezos have insisted on the three criteria that
“revolve around the customers and their demands: The best selection, the lowest prices, and cheap,
convenient delivery options”. It is now no secret that Amazon has revolutionized the online retailing
business and delivery systems around the world. Amazon’s success has never been recognized by
three criteria that were identified by its CEO because many researches associated with e-commerce
and e-business heavily focused on websites and customer services through technology instead of
other variables that could be measured in physical retail industry.
While “gauging its strategy county-by-country with the goal of securing capacity and increasing
customer convenience”, Amazon has changed the game of the e-tailers by first launching the same-
day delivery service, soon followed by one-hour delivery service in major U.S. cities and even a
Wi-Fi-connected Dash buttons for immediate re-ordering of select products, making it a “when-I-
want-it and where-I-want-it” delivery service for its customers (Lierow, Janssen and D’Inca, 2016).
In order to accomplish this feat, Amazon has not only partnered with several delivery companies
and acquired its own fleet of trucks, but also developed an app called Amazon Flex, which registers
private drivers and matches them for an Uber-like delivery service for packages.
2. BUSINESS STRATEGY
Amazon sees its Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) service as a major component to its success in
foreign markets (Krey, 2022). The company has seen strong global growth in its fulfillment
service especially for sellers - 40% year on year in 2016 - indicating that FBA may be a critical
advantage to draw sellers to its marketplace. This may be especially true in countries with less-
developed infrastructure, such as India and Mexico. In India it competes against Flip kart and
Snap deal who also embark on warehousing and logistical services (Hussan and Faisal, 2023).
However, Amazon has created one of the most advanced fulfillment networks in the world.
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Figure 2: Amazon FBA - AMZSouct
Here a seller could avail services like storage of products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, sort,
pack, collect, deliver, customer support and accomplish the product returns. FBA is one its
unique service offered to sellers who wish to display their products onto the Amazon platform
(White, 2024). It helps increase seller’s online sale by giving access to Amazon’s world-class
fulfillment resources. When a seller joins FBA, offers become more visible and more
competitive; products become eligible for One Day Delivery, Free Delivery options which
enable the seller an access to millions of Amazons loyal customers (Weigel, 2023). It also gives
an opportunity to compete for the Buy Box which appears with the “Add to Cart” option when
customers click on a product they wish to buy. In a recent Amazon survey done in 2014 among
FBA Sellers in India, 86% reported enjoying a sales increase after they started using FBA (Make
money, grow fast and delight customers, 2018) (Wells, Danskin and Ellsworth, 2018).
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Sweden discontinued since 2013
US Amazon split Prime Video from Amazon Prime in the US for $ 8.99
per month in 2016
Worldwide (except Amazon Video launched worldwide expanding its reach beyond US,
for Mainland China, UK, Germany, Austria, and Japan except for Mainland China, Iran,
Iran, North Korea, North Korea, Syria
Syria)
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real-life shoe datasets show that our model outperforms the state of the art in 5 of 6 datasets and
leads to an improvement of 17-26% in AUC over baselines when predicting size fit outcomes
(Sembium, 2018).
3.1. Background
With the growth of the Internet and electronic devices in recent years, online retail platforms
have experienced significant development in many aspects. More and more people like to browse
and buy what they want through e-commerce platforms (Galhotra, and Dewan, 2020). According
to Jap et al. (2022), in 2020, some famous online marketplaces such as Amazon, Taobao, and T-
mall earned $2.7 trillion in global sales, which held the majority of global online sales of that
year. Besides selling things, Amazon has entered even more different areas these years, such as
education. All of this shows that e-commerce platforms like Amazon have already become a
substantial part of the global economy (Wu and Gereffi, 2018).
4. TECHNOLOGY
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Figure 6: Amazon web services - AWS
With data center locations in the U.S, Europe, Brazil, Singapore, Japan and Australia, customers
across all industries are taking advantage of the benefits of Low Cost, Instant Elasticity,
flexibility to launch your application regardless of your use case or industry, Secure. Amazon
markets AWS to subscribers as a way of obtaining large scale computing capacity more quickly
and cheaply than building an actual physical server farm. AWS comprised more than 90 services
spanning a wide range including computing, storage, networking and tools for Internet of Things
(IOT).
Global Presence Amazon has made a strong foot presence in various countries throughout the
globe. It has been expanding its operations catering to diversified needs and wants coming from
different regions like that of in Asia, South East Asia, Europe, North America and South
America. This gives Amazon a wide global exposure, and delivers quality services. Following
table indicate the Amazons presence in global foot print.
Table 2: Amazon Web Services
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4.2. Smart Home – A New Marketing Era
“Hey, Alexa!”, “Ok, Google!” – Commands like these already underline the immense impact of
the Smart Home industry on consumers’ minds and business marketing activities. A Smart Home
provides several benefits and improvements to the life of consumers – especially from a
convenience point of view. In terms of business perspective, Smart Home products including
Smart Speakers pose serious challenges for marketers as it is primarily Smart Homes change the
entire customer journey. Secondly, Smart Speakers significantly shorten the customer journey.
At the same time, together with the rise of Smart Speakers, audio branding and voice profiling
have become progressively important. As a result, in order to remain competitive in upcoming
eras businesses are forced to reconsider their advertising activities. Smart Speaker providers
already integrate ads into music streaming as well as into news sections. Purchasing is aided
through socalled proprietary ‘skills’ or ‘actions’. In order to market Smart Home devices more
effectively, brands will be dependent on Amazons’ sheer abundance of products as well as on
Google’s advertising power. This article presents an assessment of the positive and negative
aspects of the current Smart Home market. Furthermore, information on the development of the
Smart Home market and where it is to be located within the marketing mix is provided. Lastly,
the paper gives a future outlook of Smart Home development and prospects.
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4.2.2: Smart Home Categories
Smart Home devices are integrated into the living environment and are characterized by a
diversity of functions. Simplified, the scope of application divides Smart Home devices into six
segments: Smart Appliances, Control and Connectivity, Security, Home Entertainment, Comfort
and Lighting, and Energy Management. In this article, Control and Connectivity will be the
predominant focus. It embraces all aspects corresponding to the equipment of connected and
remote-control devices and services that are part of an intelligent home network, including Smart
Speakers, central control and communication units, programmable control buttons and smart
plugs. With Smart Speakers, it is possible to merge the control of all smart devices into one. In
addition to consolidating control, Smart Speakers paved the way for the usage of voice as a
human interface method.
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