Taobao's Operational Model
Taobao topped the E-commerce market in a span of two years and one of the ways that allows Taobao’s success is their operation strategies. The 4 operational strategies are mainly: Charging no transaction fees, strengthening cooperation with banks, establishing a secure trading platform and the strong service they provide. Their operational model is essentially customer centric. Operational Procedure
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Regardless of B2C and C2C business model, Taobao’s logistics essentially relies on the seller to pack and delivery the goods. The first point in contact is when the buyer purchases an item from Taobao website and once the seller receives the sales invoice, they would start arranging the packaging and delivering
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“Alipay” is a secure payment service that helps customer with their online transaction. Taobao worked many financial institutions (E.g. Agriculture Bank of China, China Construct Bank) Hence, becoming a credit intermediary. Alipay helps to temporarily hold the money for their customers for 14 weeks and only when their customers receive their item, they will confirm the payment in Alipay and the seller will receive the payment. Furthermore, if the customer receives a faulty product and requires an exchange, Alipay will extend the holding of money till the the customer is satisfied with their purchase.
In addition, Alipay provides user payment verification that enhances their security. Thus, with more secured payments, customers will feel safe to transact with Alipay. -- Refer to section __ for SWOT analysis of Taobao's use.
Marketing Model
This section aims to explain Taobao’s marketing strategy and how they have effectively tapped on it to rise to where they are today. Their marketing strategy mainly involves online advertisements, web design and ______
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Engaging Web
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Close to 60% of the adults in China utilises WeChat and spends over 40 minutes daily on WeChat. WeChat is social networking application that is heavily utilised by China which users can message their friends and follow brands and celebrities. Through WeChat, Taobao advertises the current sales promotions held at its website as well latest fashion trends targeted to females in China (aforementioned in para __). This advertisement model is largely effective given that users can customise and choose the type of news they would like to received. Furthermore, Taobao allows WeChat users to directly search for the products they would like to purchase from Taobao on the app. Therefore, given the high usage of WeChat in China and increasing usage in other parts of the world coupled with the useful search function, advertisement of its service through WeChat could prove to be a effective
GameStop is an American video game retailer. It operates primarily in the buying and selling of video game, gaming consoles and sometimes in electronics. The company sells both new and previously used video game hardware; physical and digital video games, pre-owned and value video game products; personal computer (PC) entertainment software in various genres, such as role-playing games (RPG’s), simulators, adventure and many more; digital merchandises, including PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live subscriptions; video game accessories, such as controllers, gaming headsets, and other add-ons for use with gaming hardware and software; strategy guides, magazines, and gaming-related posters and toys. The company is headquartered in Texas and different
The management at Zappos attracts customers through exceptional service that has created a “WOW” philosophy and embedded it within the fabric and culture of the company. Zappos has several competitive dimensions in which they compete with other online retailers in the market. The company has always maintained its sales growth rate on the long-term basis at a certain output level. Therefore, the competitive advantages of Zappos have always been sustainable. The corporate culture of the company is nurtured and developed by its management team.
Operations management needs to be effective by making sure that customers’ needs are being met. The production process is the act of combining various immaterial inputs in order to create a good or service which has value and contributes to the utility of consumers. Dymocks The Company will support the sole trader in negotiating great terms with major suppliers in order to achieve the best benefits and discounts. Once an order has been put in with suppliers, the order will then be processed and the goods will be created.
TRADER JOE’S – INDUVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT 1 Part 1 – Introduction What Joe Coulombe did was opening an ordinary supermarket into the industry but the strategies he took were separating the Trader Joe’s from its rivals. What he did was to offer products targeting sophisticated costumers who were searching for good bargains. The offerings of Trader Joe’s were so unique which are not found at rival shelfs. Another crucial decision he made was to take advantage of recent environmental movements such as the rising trend of costumers searching organic foods. The company also decided on selling private labelled products with lower prices than other brands of the same product.
Costco has developed number of operational excellence that helped to achieve low cost operations. Costco’s operational excellences are efficient management of inventory and distribution, minimum merchandise handling, and bulk purchasing to reduce the price of the products. Also, Costco has the ability to offer leading national brands at low prices by getting great discounts from the manufacturers. In addition, Costco generates high sales volume and quick inventory turnover helps in reducing inventory-handling costs and increases the liquidity of cash. Quick realization of cash helped them to pay off their vendors and receive additional discounts for early settlement.
Impact of Digital Marketing and Online Brand Alliance A Case of Wal-Mart and Amazon 2.0 Literature review 2.1 Introduction This chapter explains the objectives and variables of the study under the light of previous scholars to develop a clear understanding on this topic. This chapter entails the studies on current topic by past researchers and scholars. This chapter highlights the impact of digital marketing and brand alliance in the case of Wal-Mart and amazon in view of previous scholars and researchers. The relationship is observed in case of Wal-Mart and amazon brand alliance.
Identify the target customers Marketing techniques should de clearly defined Proper website should be defined Unique logo and product designed. Share for expert opinion Create a social and proactive strategy According to the literature
Introduction Every business organization is using a marketing concept which is used as a tool to identify customer’s needs. And further try to meet them by making right decisions in line with customer’s needs. In line with meeting customer’s needs the ultimate goal of every business is to gain profit. That’s why they make use of different marketing strategies to meet not only the need of the customer but as well as the goal of the company. We know for a fact that marketing strategies comprises everything from developing a product, to introducing it to the market, to selling and improving it as the need of the target market changes.
• Operations: These are the transformation activities that change inputs into outputs that are sold to customers. Here, your operational systems create
However, choosing the appropriate technology is essential to the success of the advertising industry because different markets prefer different ways of conveying information. The use of applications in phones or e-commerce to order goods and services all over the world may be appropriate to a certain market, but media may be appropriate to an illiterate market (Porter, 1998). The development of smart phones is also an added advantage to the development of marketing activities in the advertising industries. For instance, in Singapore China the Taxi industry uses the application in the smart phones to access the consumers. Although the media are one of the appropriate medium to convey the adverts to the consumers,
The purpose of Operations management within an organization is to control the production process and business operations as efficient as possible to achieving overall organizational goal (investopedia.com, 2017). Therefore operation management creates policies, processes and procedures and also use various methods and techniques to maximize profits thus achieving organizational goal. Approaches or Techniques of operation management To improve the operational performance, operation management use various techniques to improve the operational performance. Some of these approaches are: Six Sigma Lean production Queuing theory TQM In this section below some of these techniques or theory has been explained: Six Sigma: Six sigma an effective and significant process improvement theory
Literature review Advertising has become a form of communication and a great source for promoting services and products for any business in the whole market because of its broader impact. The main idea of an advertisement is to get the attention of the consumers, build up the product’s strong image in their mind and provide information to help the consumer to make a purchase decision. So, the central focus in today’s diverse global marketplace is the consumer. Companies exert a lot of effort to find out the best ingredients that should be in an effective advertising and identifying its influence on the consumer’s mind, so effective advertising should be considered as one of the most important tools that strongly affect and can change the consumer’s buying behavior. The research attempts to investigate the impact of effective advertising on the consumer’s buying behavior.
Most people today, own one at least one technological device which could be one of the access platforms that form online channels the company may apply for their digital marketing to achieve profitability and retention of customers. Chaffey and Ellis-Chadwick (2012) state that a digital marketing strategy is constantly needed to provide a sense of direction for an organization’s online marketing activities so that they integrate with its other marketing activities and support its overall business goals. According to Parise et al.
TASK 1.1 Importance of operation management Operations management (OM) is the business function responsible for managing the process of creation of goods and services. It involves planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling all the resources needed to produce a company’s goods and services. Because operations management is a management function, it involves managing people, equipment, technology, information, and all the other resources needed in the production of goods and services. Operations management is the central core function of every company. This is true regardless of the size of the company, the industry it is in, whether it is manufacturing or service, or is for-profit or not-for-profit.
One of the challenges of e-business is that there are customers that prefer cash on delivery payment method because of limited online payment accesss for credit cards in certain countries. This payment method is a problem for global e-business, as it would delay the transactions of goods and payments. However, it is not a problem for Foodpanda because the food orders delivery is made within the country and hence cash on delivery is accepted. Apart from that, returning policy is also a challenge for e-business as it is more expensive with the addition of shipping and packaging cost. Foodpanda however, does not have a returning policy because the service that Foodpanda provide is a food delivery service, not goods.