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Amazon Logistics Strategy

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Wydział Informatyki i Zarządzania kierunek studiów: Zarządzanie specjalność: Organizational Management

Praca dyplomowa – licencjacka
(Bachelor Thesis)
Logistics in e-commerce enterprises – strategies and tools
Mikołaj Przerada

Słowa kluczowe/Key words: logistics, e-commerce, logistics strategy

Streszczenie/Abstract:
The thesis contains an analysis of logistics strategies, methods and tools implemented in e-commerce business. Some examples of process oriented management and an analysis of an influence of new communication and distribution channels with other logistics requirements to successful operations and processes in e-commerce enterprises are also presented.

Opiekun pracy dyplomowej Dr inż. Roman Pietroń ....................... ....................... …show more content…

During that time Dell Computer Corporation reported multimillion dollar orders taken through its Website. The success of Amazon.com fastened the arrival of Barnes & Noble's (largest retail bookseller in the United States) e-tail website. Before that Barnes & Noble sold books directly to customers through mail-order catalogs. It first began selling books online in the late 1980s, in an early generation venue called Trintex (a joint venture between Sears and IBM) but the company's website was not launched until May 1997. According to the site statistics and database it now carries over 2 million titles . 1997 was also the year in which AutoByTel (car selling company) reported that they had sold their millionth car over the Internet website. High amount of orders which in many times were including small objects created the need for those e-tailers to use outsourced delivery companies. Some other major corporations and smaller entrepreneurs begun to be described as e-tailers by using technological resources like the Internet or emails as the major way of selling their products and services to the …show more content…

ERP systems support company management in the area of planning, production and distribution and enables a quick response on demand change in terms of conditions and restrictions on the market. ERP is also often defined as a packet of software for enterprise resource planning, which is ready for implementation of integrated groups of modules, servicing all business functions of company and enabling dynamic possibility of configuration. A main purpose of a packet is full integration of all areas of company. It should support specialized production functions, e.g. management of construction and technological changes, as well as quality management, redecorations, services, staff, etc. Amidst many tasks of ERP systems their characteristic element is generating of multidimensional financial analysis for top management. ERP systems serve setting of information for the needs of users and simulation of activities, their analysis and

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