The evolution of inventory management at Amazon.com

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Amazon.com was launched by Preston Bezos Jeffrey back in the early days of 1995, and it is currently considered as one of the most prominent retail website on the internet with the record turnover of over fourteen billion in 2007. Ammazon.com remains to be the largest online retailer around the globe. The company has different websites as well as product listings in various nations that deal with the activities to sell their product6s to different targeted customers or end users (Whitney 2018, p. 157). Management of inventory remains to be the backbone of most retail business operations of Amazon.com. Appropriate management of inventory by Amazon.com has helped its operations in cutting down costs while streamlining business processes. The company planned and managed their inventory better while selling products through ideas of planning, sourcing, and storage inventories (Terry-Armstrong 2013, p. 3). Therefore, this research paper has principal target that examines how Amazon.com has improved its operations by implementation of management of inventory. The ideas presented below explore how Amazon.com has utilized the concepts that inventory offer to keep the company to remain competitive and high profitability during its operations in different markets.

It is clear that the founder of Amazon had the intention of creating the internet based organization with the most dedicated as well as portfolio of product on the internet where consumers could find anything that they might require at any period. The success of operations of Amazon.com has been based on technology, products, and services (Segan 2018, p. 53). Controlling inventory has remained to one of the toughest operational problems for operations of different companies. With thirty-nine million active accounts for different customers along with operational vision such as being “biggest selection of product globally,” the company has been putting a lot of concentration to be as efficient as possible in management of inventory (Welcn 2011, p. 107). There has been a lot of evolution n that have occurred on management of inventory of Amazon that has also resulted in various effects on operations and growth of the company.

Amazon.com uses management of inventory as a way of allowing customers to shop online where they can choose among products owned by them at any time. The use of inventory by the company has helped in increasing the number of customers as most clients are able to get products every time they need such products without necessarily having to go to shops by themselves in various places (Bozer and Aldarondo 2017, p. 39). The use of inventory has helped in providing Amazon.com with the tools that the customers can use for searching, viewing, as well as updating product and listing information on every product on offers so as the targeted client can view such data. Therefore, use of inventory by the company help in increasing the speed of delivering products to different customers. It also has aid in improving the quality control services that leads to improving customer experience and trust when requesting and purchasing products from the company.  Furthermore, Amazon inventory management has been on the high end in helping the company sellers to keep their products in stock and sales flowing (Henry 2017, p. 26). However, management of inventory within the Amazon.com involves more than simply the process that deals with counting of products along with listing quantities in Seller Central. Volume of different orders, cash flow, along with sales forecasting all perform the function of inventory management and sellers always have the responsibility of mastering the entire process to stay on the top of Amazon’s search listings together with drive sales.

Management of inventory as the backbone of Amazon’s retail operations

Amazon.com utilizes the process of inventory by ensuring that their products are right for Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA). Before process of listing products with FBA, management ensures that they understand what can and what cannot be fulfilled in the process. The idea of making sure that products are right start from Seller Central as it goes through to the Inventory Tab before selecting Manage Inventory (Dvorak 2018, p. 147). The use of inventory allows company to check the product that they need to ship to different fulfillment centers, select ‘Change to Fulfilled by Amazon’ from the drop-down menu, as well as follow the prompts to change Amazon’s listings. The use of manufacturer barcode helps in tracking inventory as a way of ensuring that Amazon.com remains to be competitive marketplace. Therefore, idea of planning inventory better by Amazon.com remain to be the general idea that help in matching the company’s product supply with the expected demand in different places globally. The planning of Amazon inventory in most cases is achievable or done through detailed forecasting along with planning. In simple approach, Amazon.com as always the mandate to use the efficient plan of their inventory better (Shahi and Pulkki 2015, p. 1321). For instance, Amazon Selling Coach can aid in identification of inventory opportunities based on the company’s sales together with current inventory information. The idea planning for inventory in the competitive marketplaces is important in improving the operation of Amazon.com. Planning inventory by Amazon remains to be the efficient approach that provides personalized suggestions that help in optimization of company’s stock levels. It also helps the management to view their listing status and details on the manage inventory page (Rajan and Marathe 2018, p. 863). The page help management of the company to manage cases of inactive or out of stock listings for effective understanding of how healthy their inventory is and how they can improve it during operations. 

The use of different inventory templates is essential in improving operations of Amazon.com. It helps in improving their operations to keep its competitive advantage and remain highly profitable. One of the major merits that Amazon inventory as in its operations remains to be the idea of helping the business organization to concentrate mostly on principal activities as the strategy essential in reducing costs of operations (Shinn 2010, p. 19). Amazon remains to be one of such corporations that require to be taking advantage of the benefits associated with outsourcing of inventory. The use of product creation and matching during inventory in Amazon can help in allowing online users to check if pages on different products exist in Amazion.com catalog and thus they will have full information on the product on sale. Therefore, Amazon inventory management help in saving time and helping the company to grow its business with such benefits that customers get from to use of online platforms. The use of inventory has helped in ensuring that every product that Amazon posts on its platforms are always eligible for Amazon Prime Free Two-Day shipping activities, FREE Shipping, along with other benefits that allow it to top in global market for books and sales of music over internet. In most cases, inventory management for Amazon is always divided into different stages. These stages include an initial start with no inventory, and the other stage is built warehouses to store inventory (Smith 2014, p. 12). Other stages include ideas of entering into partnerships with distributors along with stage of entering into partnerships with different retailers globally. The use of template of inventory that deals with recommended removal is vital in operations of Amazon.com. The template form an inventory in Amazon fulfillment centers at risk of being charged fee for long storage at the time of next inventory cleanup.

How Amazon.com uses inventory management to increase customer satisfaction

The initial stage on Amazon inventory starts with no inventory during the management as the main targets of Amazon that focus on creation of a virtual bookshop, where targeted clients could have more choices than any present bookshop that is physical around the global community. The idea of using such concept in managing inventory in Amazon was vital as the founder did not want to spend extra money and time on process of developing more warehouses and deal with inventory since every warehouse could cost more than fifty million dollars for the establishment (Xia et al., 2011, p. 457).  All these stages have allowed Amazon.com to set high standards for its operations along with sellers when it comes to activities and processes that deals with focus on customers. The great experience of shopping for customer that inventory help in improving include finding and ordering different products with ease, shipping products at no cost, getting products faster after placing an order, offering excellent support to customers on different orders along with returns. Besides, process that deals with building warehouses to store inventory are vital in operations of Amazon.com (Higins 2012, p. 59). It allows Amazon to build its objectives and gain better control over their inventory together with improving the range of different products while reducing their costs of logistics. Amazon inventory allows the company to procure different items from their distributor as well as storing them in their warehouses before selling to different customers (Wolf 2013, p. 17). Therefore, there is a need for the customer to make the order and Amazon couriers it to their respective destinations.

The approach of outsourcing in inventory remains to be loyal service providing technique by a company. It concern with the system wherein goods as well as services are procured from different external sources to the operations of Amazon. The usage of internet has remained to be popular in operations of Amazon.com as the management uses it to advertise as well as sell their products to reach various people that are unable to reach its headquarter (Mathaba et al., 2017, p. 3099). Amazon opened the whole fresh marketplace for competitive business in the specialty corporation on the computer, and for extended duration, it has proved to be the successful company on the Net. Amazon.Com has continued to be one of the famous public corporations that investors have the desire to invest in its operations. Amazon inventory helps the company to focus on its core operations along with savings. Amazon has been able to utilize inventory for outsourcing as a way of ensuring that it offers quality products to markets (Helle et al., 2018, p. 54). The idea has made the company remain as one of the companies that require those benefits from inventory outsourcing. Amazon always outsource only some of its inventory to help its operations in mitigating risks and optimizing services in competitive markets that use internet to support their production, distribution, and supply of books. The use of inventory outsourcing by Amazon.com has helped in improving its operations by ensuring that its services help in growing business quickly (Wolf 2015, p. 27). The operations of Amazon are thus focusing of fulfillment centers that are always built with their inventory in mind. Having inventory in mind makes the company to have no minimum in the number of units that they always need to send as they concentrate on handling the details of different of their products to help them in saving time so that management can largely focus on their business.

Inventory planning and forecasting for efficient operations

Amazon.com found that the decision that deals with stocking the stores with every possible commodity was not the appropriate approach. Although some of its targeted clients might decide to choose not to buy if there are not adequate goods in the stock, Amazon decided to manage its inventory in the season of 2000 by using specific strategies (Whitney 2018, p. 157). The company started from approaches that deal with reduction of the warehouses while concentrating a lot on the products’ quality as well as manufacturer of publisher of different products like books. The management of the company decided to manage its inventory by deciding to buy its essential products directly from the manufacturer with the objective of sustaining its relationships with vendors so as it can gain the appropriate deal from such vendors. Besides, Amazon.com developed appropriate distribution structure with the aim of offering its targeted clients with the fast delivery of the operations of company directly. The formation of such distributions facilities have the significant influence on improving its products delivered or shipped very fast to the targeted clients (terry-Armstrong 2013, p. 3). The fastest process of shipping goods by the management of the company comes out of the significant presence of the goods that help in attaining satisfaction of a client.

The idea that deals with inventory management has given rise to the process of selling other products by Amazon.com on its website. Therefore, activities that deal with ideas of selling other competitors products on the site of Amazon remain to be profitable. The profitability arises since the targeted and esteemed clients of the company remain to be aware of the different prices of other products when they compare with Amazon (Segan 2018, p. 54). The process help in ensuring that the company focuses on improving their prices so that they become less when compared to prices offered by their competitors. Besides, this idea provides the corporation with extra profits without necessary getting involved in the process of making advertisements for their products that are offered at low prices (Breniere et al., 2016, p. 12). Besides, such management of inventory by Amazon.com opens new stores on its stores to provide higher availability of products as well as draw more clients. Therefore, clients that are making different orders at Amazon.com are always ready to wait longer than those that drive to the nearby stores along the borders to get the same books or journals that they need (Brasler and Lettis 2018, p. 37). Clients that use Amazon.com sites have the merits of finding the variety of published books at Amazon than any other place.

Using inventory templates to reduce costs and improve productivity

Conclusion

The need to improve supply chain management by Amazon.com has helped in improving the management of inventory for the company to achieve its success in operations. It is clear from the above discussion that the primary target of Amazon inventory remains to be the need to offer the one-stop service. These services allow targeted and esteemed clients to get all products of Amazon on its online platforms and deliver necessary products to clients within the needed period. In order to realize the organization’s goals, Amazon needs to focus on creation of collaborative partnership with its partners through the multi-tier system of inventory in order to offer unlimited products to clients. Besides, there is a need for Amazon.com to maintain sufficient network for its supply and distribution as a way of inventory management to help it in delivering necessary goods to the customers. All these factors that have been illustrated in the discussion affect operations and inventory of Amazon by affecting its competitive advantage as well as improving its profits that they earn during operations. The use of inventory by Amazon has illustrated that getting company’s products to customer promptly remains as the vital part of developing the vast experience of customers’.

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