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Amazon Supply Chain Case Study
Amazon Supply Chain Case Study
Amazon Supply Chain Case Study
Amazon takes a Six Sigma approach to its distribution operations, and applies lean
manufacturing and Total Quality Management methodologies to its processes.
Amazon Conducting business on an international scale (the e-tailor ships to more than 200
countries)
Amazon use a global trade management solution to provide customers in more than 40
countries details on the full cost of orders, including country-specific duties, taxes, tariffs and
licenses.
Part of Amazon's supply chain proficiency is based on its operations philosophy, which is
more reminiscent of industrial manufacturing than traditional retail
Distributor
Warehouse hour service -24
Publisher
Amazon supply chain features
Publisher
Amazon.com has world’s largest Linux Database, with a total capacity of 7.8 terabytes, 18.5
TB and 24.7 TB respectively.
Amazon continually upgraded its search engine capabilities in order to outstrip emerging
competitors
The Central Amazon Data warehouse is made up of 28 Hewlett Packard servers, with four
CPUs per node, running Oracle 9i database software.
The architecture handles millions of back-end operations and third party seller queries
Amazon.com has five international stores in Canada, France, UK, Japan, and Germany
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 and
information costs
Amazon managed nine inventory turns per year
Amazon has continued to expand the set of products that it sells online. Besides books and music,
Amazon has added many product categories such as toys, apparel, electronics, jewelry, and shoes.
After several years of losses, Amazon has been profitable since 2003