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    Amazon.com is an American-based multinational electronic commerce company founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos and launched online in 1995. It started as an online bookstore and grew to become the largest online retailer, offering over 20 million products. Amazon uses a multi-tier inventory model and partnerships to respond to fluctuating demand while reducing costs through an approach where high-demand items are kept in inventory and lower-demand items are purchased in response to customer orders. The company operates multiple international websites and has built one of the world's largest technology infrastructures to handle millions of backend operations and queries daily.

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    Amazon.com is an American-based multinational electronic commerce company founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos and launched online in 1995. It started as an online bookstore and grew to become the largest online retailer, offering over 20 million products. Amazon uses a multi-tier inventory model and partnerships to respond to fluctuating demand while reducing costs through an approach where high-demand items are kept in inventory and lower-demand items are purchased in response to customer orders. The company operates multiple international websites and has built one of the world's largest technology infrastructures to handle millions of backend operations and queries daily.

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    Amazon.com is an American-based multinational electronic commerce company founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos and launched online in 1995. It started as an online bookstore and grew to become the largest online retailer, offering over 20 million products. Amazon uses a multi-tier inventory model and partnerships to respond to fluctuating demand while reducing costs through an approach where high-demand items are kept in inventory and lower-demand items are purchased in response to customer orders. The company operates multiple international websites and has built one of the world's largest technology infrastructures to handle millions of backend operations and queries daily.

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    Amazon Supply Chain Final

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    Amazon.com is an American-based multinational electronic commerce company founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos and launched online in 1995. It started as an online bookstore and grew to become the largest online retailer, offering over 20 million products. Amazon uses a multi-tier inventory model and partnerships to respond to fluctuating demand while reducing costs through an approach where high-demand items are kept in inventory and lower-demand items are purchased in response to customer orders. The company operates multiple international websites and has built one of the world's largest technology infrastructures to handle millions of backend operations and queries daily.

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    The key takeaways are that Amazon started as an online bookstore and has since expanded to offer a wide range of products across different categories. It has also established various international websites to cater to different markets globally.

    Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 and launched online in 1995 starting as an online bookstore. It has since expanded its product offerings across various categories including books, movies, music, kindle e-readers, computers, electronics, home goods, groceries, toys, clothing, sports equipment and more.

    Amazon follows a multi-level e-commerce business model where it acts as an intermediary facilitating sales between manufacturers/publishers and customers. Its supply chain is globally integrated with warehouses, retailers, distributors and publishers/manufacturers moving products to meet customer demand.

    Darshan Shekhar

    Nikita Mehta
    Swati Shrivastava
    Tony k Roy
    Vikrant Saraph
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    Index
    Company profile
    Business model
    Driver of the company
    Supply chain of amazon.com
    Distribution channel
    Partners
    Amazon technology
    Demand management

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    Company Overview
    Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is an American-
    based multinational electronic commerce company.

    Headquartered ---Seattle, Washington.

    America's largest online retailer.


    Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and
    launched it online In 1995. It started as an online
    bookstore.
    With 2.5 million titles, it became the “Earth’s Biggest
    Bookstore”.

    3
    3
    4
    Products
     Books
     Movie, Music and Games
     Digital Download
     Kindle
     Computer And Office
     Electronics
     Home and garden
     Grocery, Health and beauty
     Toys, kids and baby
     Clothing, Shoes and jewelry
     Sports and outdoors
     Tools, Auto and industrial

    5
    Business Model
    Amazon-to-Buyer Sale Approch
    Multi level E-Commerce
    • Customer Tracking
    It operates 7 websites that support their
    business operation globally and offers 20
    million items for sale.

    6
    Models for Web Application
    There are 2 kind of web models :-

    Conceptual model
    Structural model

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    There are four primary drivers for
    growth:

    1. Product focus
    2. Customer focus
    3. Technology focus
    4. Distribution focus

    8
    Supply chain of amazon.com

    Customer Pull
    Customer Customer
    Customer
    Pull

    Amazon Retailer
    Retailer
    Amazon

    Warehouse
    Warehouse
    Distributor
    Distributor

    Publisher
    Publisher

    Publisher
    Publisher

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    Multi-Tier Inventory Model

    Inventory Aggregation respond to fluctuation in


    demand with lower level of safety stock.
    10
    Partners
    Large Partners
    Small Partners
    Trusted Partners

    11
    Partners

    12
    Technology Partners

    13
    Amazon Technology
     Ithas world’s largest Linux Database, with a total
    capacity of 7.8 terabytes, 18.5 TB and 24.7 TB
    respectively.

     The Central Amazon Data warehouse is made up of 28


    Hewelett Packard server, with four CPUs per node,
    running Oracle 9i database software.

     The architecture handles millions of back-end


    operations and third party seller queries.

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    Five international stores of
    Amazon.com
    Amazon Canada, Amazon France, Amazon UK,
    Amazon Japan, Amazon Germany.
    Reasons:
     The Mother-Tongue Issue
     The Shipping Issue
     The Currency Issue
     The Local Product Issue
     The National Pride Issue
     Proper inventory control

    15
    Amazon Technology Architecture

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    How deals the supply chains with
    fluctuating demand?
    Amazon.com carries high-demand title in
    inventory, whereas it purchases low-demand
    titles from distributor in response to a
    customer orders .

    Reduction in various costs like ;-


    - Inventory cost
    - Facility cost
    - Transportation costs
    - Information costs

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    Thank you !!!

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