Question

What kind of a role does technology play in the functions of transportation and warehousing? How important is warehousing to Amazon?

Answer 1

The following are the roles the technology plays in functions of transportation and warehousing:

1. The product of the company is stored, so that it impact on the responsiveness on satisfying the needs of the customer and increased sales will increase the company efficiency.
2. The demand is always high as where the company will forecast and the inventories needed would be kept on stock, where they do not want to delay on the deliveries of the product and services to the customers.
3. Flexible mode of transportation is done to increase on the responsiveness and efficiency of the organization.
4. The transportation can be tracked and manage on the logistics as that impact on improve material flows and increase on the inventory level for best outcome of product as a result.
5. Monitoring on the daily activities can focus towards future demands and increase on the efficiency and responsiveness towards adapting to change in the technology, market etc.

The ware housing is important to Amazon as explained below:

1. Predict on the future demand.
2. Identify on the financial risk due to the outcome of the products.
3. Demands can be understood and from that the sales can be predicted in the warehouse.
4. Increased transparancy of the product and the estimation can be done according to that.