Question

Find a news story, video, case study, movie clip... whatever... any kind of artifact that is relevant to ERP, CRM, or SCM. Create a thread with your name as the subject where you present that artifact. Provide some kind of explanation about why you chose that artifact and why it is relevant. Moreover, make sure that whatever you choose further or betters our collective understanding of the topics and themes from this week. Feel free to be creative about any of the above.

Answer 1

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/09/amazon-offering-50-percent-cheaper-shipping-than-ups-to-some-sellers.html

Amazon striving for global leadership in supply chain management too.

Amazon has come to personify perfection in business management within every process. It has taken strategic planning and management to an altogether different level proving that efficiency teamed with capability for impeccable strategizing of a visionary leadership can make all the difference to the limitless success an Organisation can achieve. The level of planning and strategy which the organisation uses when it ventures into exploring avenues of growth, whether lateral or vertical integration, is absolutely incompatible for the death of analysis and the variety of avenues it explores to exploit before deciding on the course of action and the strategy to be adopted. It is macro management but with use of micro analysis for facilitating accurate decision making on the basis of gathering of exceptionally reliable data with innovative means of of data mining with superlative application of business and competitive intelligence. Amazon ensures effective control over supply chain logistics as the home delivery of products in time is crucial to the success of the organisation. Amazon develops collaboration with and maintains tremendous pressure on all third party logistics and trade businesses who are partners of the company to ensure timely delivery and customer satisfaction. Building an excellent logistics network is a major strategy for effective entry into any markets with ownership providing the much needed operational control with flexibility for prioritizing critical deliveries.

There are four functional level strategies within any organisation for Optimisation of processes to render the competition is relevant by creating a unique and hitherto unidentified market space for itself globally. These are, the level at which all individual divisions in departments within the entire organisation and every unit operate, the linking of all strategic issues each other and to every business process on the entire value chain utilisation of all search Strategies and processes for absolute involvement in the development and coordination of all available company resources based on which business unit level strategies can be effectively and efficiently executed. The strategies implemented within each process provide for the inputs to the corporate of action plans for each department and the goal to be accomplished. Entire system strategy is highly dynamic and adaptable with the feedback from implemented strategies becoming action plan and information for decisions on future strategy. This results in a process of constant monitoring and control with continuous modifications and changes being implemented as and where required.

This involves implementation and the ground level to optimise functionality by monitoring efficiency of every employee the quality of output by each department and the innovation and strategy of the company as a whole with sensitivity and responsiveness towards the customer and community through meeting every requirement and satisfying every need. These are the core functional level strategies which are closely connected to each other, making it mandatory that all be optimised in entirety to ensure success for a business entity. Absolute quality of responsiveness to customers requires the company to achieve quality, efficiency and innovation without which customer satisfaction cannot be achieved.

Another major advantage is its ability to maintain secrecy regarding its operations and future plans y why laying the foundation to hit the ground running and take off successfully when it does venture into ownership of a new business process. The company ensures that every activity of process it owns has a unified mission providing adequate direction to everyone involved as a company being absolutely customer centric with providing optimal customer service being the most important objective to be achieved through any process which it realises will finally lead to profits, as has been proved by every process the company has ventured into. With Amazon taking over supply chain management it looks set to imitate the success it has achieved within e-commerce. The company clearly has a goal of becoming a leader in supply chain enabling it to have absolute control over optimising customer service through a dependable and quick delivery experience. The organisation is trying to own every process so as to become a one stop shop for optimal fulfillment of every requirement of the customer team to the strategy to obtain maximum leverage from its economies of scale to pass on the benefit to the customer bye why providing costs which are incompatible and difficult for competition to achieve without having the Global customer base enjoyed by Amazon. the industry may not be confident about the company being able to maintain extremely low introductory rates it has offered on the shipping system but as usual it may prove them all wrong and just continue to Amaze-on.