...A SWOT analysis is an essential evaluation that every company should consider utilizing. It reviews phases and elements of a company with the purpose of showing what aspects are working well and which ones need to be improved. By applying the SWOT analysis to Netflix, I have concluded that their strengths are, the easy stream and the accessibility that the service offers to its customers. Subscribers can enjoy their favorite shows and movies in the comfort of their home, on the go, during their lunch break and even on their mobile devices or computers. Another strength that Netflix has is their affordable monthly subscription that ranges between $7.99 and $11.99 per month which includes unlimited movies and TV shows. The additional benefits of a membership depend upon how much you want to pay each month. With the improved development of internet speed, more customers are preferring to watch their movies and TV shows online thus decreasing the usage of DVDs. This is considered a weakness of Netflix, because the company decided to separate their services into two categories: the streaming Netflix and DVD.com, a Netflix company which offers physical DVDs that are delivered by mail. The DVD by mail operations have decreased considerably in recent years and the decline of memberships is expected to continue in the future. On the other hand, a big advantage Netflix has compared to other similar services, is the growth of International markets. Netflix is present in more than 200 countries...
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...7p’s for Amazon Price – Amazon has lowered its prices of items due to more completion with other e-tailers such as eBay. Products – Amazon allows customers to buy products that are cheaper. The customers would place an order and amazon orders it straight from the local warehouse, this then means the delivery speed is quicker and the customer gets the product a lot quicker. This lowers storage cost and allows businesses to provide a larger range of products instead of having a slow delivery speed and a small amount of products stored, this makes them have a large variety of products. Place – Amazon can access the international markets by being on the internet, they can set up multi – language Amazon can access the international markets by being on the internet, they can set up multi – language website to target specific markets, also there isn’t much cost as a store isn’t needed since it is directly from the manufacturers. Promotions – Amazon allows customers their products according to what they want. Also social media has now become more popular that means that this has become a main way of communication so people chose it as a main form of buying things, this promotes the business because it’s quick, easy and simple to use. It’s a lot more cost effective and is a lot effective for people who don’t have enough time to shop. People - For customers, it can save lots of time and this means they can order what they want and chose from a bigger variety of things instead of...
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...The Languagelessness of Immigrants Ivy Dr. S. Xie English 239.03 Nov 21, 2012 People are in the fortunate position of choosing where in the world you would like to live. However, most immigrants facing removal proceedings are frequently hamstrung by language and cultural barriers. Both Kingston’s Woman Warrior and Suki Kim’s The Interpreter illustrate languagelessness of Chinese and Korean immigrants across American states, which are rejection by failing assimilation into American mainstream, loneliness and isolation from other people, and sense of identity crisis. Rejection by failing assimilation into American mainstream For the first generation born in America, it is especially difficult to reconcile the heavy-handed and often restrictive traditions of the emigrants with the relative freedom of life in America. In Women Warrior, Kingston draws a sharp contrast between her fantasy about Fa Mu Lan, the Chinese traditional woman warrior, and the defining moments of her real "American life." Fa Mu Lan had her village's grievances tattooed on her back; Kingston has Chinese stories practically drilled into her brain and is labeled with racial epithets. Her personal struggle and vengeance lie in making sense of the stories through writing, in depicting through words the struggles of growing up Chinese-American. There is an important difference, though, Fa Mu Lan could achieve her vengeance and then return home, but Kingston's vengeance seems to be a never-ending struggle...
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...Wonder Woman was more than a lasso slinging, bullet dodging super hero; she is an American feminist’s icon. Wonder Woman was introduced to Americans during World War II, by William Moulton Marston, a Harvard trained psychologist and lawyer. She represented nationhood at a time when our nation was at war. She was the daughter of Queen Hippolyte ruler of an all-woman race of Amazons living on Paradise Island, somewhere located in the Bermuda Triangle. She was named Princess Diana, after the Romanized version of the Greek Goddess Artemis (Emad, 2006). Since the inception of Wonder Woman, her origin has changed twice. Originally she earned her power and title she embodied for decades when she won a power competition amongst the other Amazonian women. In the second version of her origin she did not win her powers but instead was given them to her by the Gods themselves. Wonder Woman was much more than a comic book super hero. According to historian Lori Landay, “Wonder Woman operated in wartime popular culture as a metaphor for the movement in femininity out of the garden and into the war” (p. 11). She contained her super human powers from the public and lived a dual life, nurse and super hero. This reinforced the perception that women need to hide the power and strength allowing men to remain the dominate species. By the late 1990’s, Wonder Woman’s image changed and began to align with the times. She bared a more determined look, her body was toned and she donned a more “ready...
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...CIVIL AND SOCIAL USES OF DRONES Name Course Title Instructor’s name Date Introduction A drone is a remote proscribed pilotless airplane as well as a projectile. A broader definition of this is an unmanned plane as well as a ship that can steer itself separately, without individual control or past the line of prospect. Consequently, this paper will attempt to explain on the civil along with the social uses of drones. There are growing numbers of in-flight drone platforms, comprising of the very energetic do it yourself society. The machines are getting to be more vigorous, with the potential to sustain heavier payloads for extensive flight periods. As with the increasing interest as well as the potential for these tools to tackle novel areas of requests, it is important to address on the civil uses of drones. Thus, among this uses they do comprise of the agricultural sector. Basing on various researches conducted by the “Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International” the news suggested that. The agricultural use of drones could involve 70% of the market. The explanation pointed out for this comprised of the desire to monitor crops strictly so as to enhance...
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...Wizard of Math was extremely interested in the opportunity, they knew they lacked the resources available to connect their data with Amazon’s Webstore platform. At the time, Wizard of Math was managing their listings by hand and had no visibility when an order came through to know if the warehouse had the inventory in stock. Specific requirements included: The ability to transition 15,000+ products from manual to automatic management Custom fields, as required by Amazon The ability to add and discontinue 300-400 products each month Visibility to distributor stock levels so the company could guarantee inventory and achieve a high ranking on Amazon The Solution Amazon introduced Wizard of Math to Merchantry, and, after due diligence, Wizard of Math selected the Merchantry platform. Merchantry assisted in enabling Wizard of Math to sell on the Amazon Webstore, and after integration, became the system that manages all of their inventory and order processing. Data feeds enable Wizard of Math and their distributors to manage large data changes with minimal effort or disruptions to their operations. The Results As a result of a streamlined communication between Amazon and Wizard of Math distributors, Wizard of Math maintains...
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... it is very important to consider and review the stock price analysis. Here, the stock price analysis of the organizations Amazon and Ebay shall be carried out. In relation to the stock price analysis, the analysis of the stock prices shall be reviewed from January 1, 2010, 2011 and 2012 and in addition to this, the stock price analysis for the organization shall also be considered regarding the stock price of the organization since the date of its incorporation. The graph showing the changes in the stock prices of the organizations is provided below (Yahoo Finance, 2014). The chart given above shows the changes in the stock prices for Ebayfrom January 1,2010, January 1,2011 and January 1,2012. These charts show the information that, the organization has been in a position to enhance its stock prices since the date of incorportation. So although the stock price has increased since being incorporated, it hasn’t been a substantial increase amount. Based on this chart, it can be said that, the stock price of the Ebay has definitely grown since the date of its incorporation till the present date, but the growth has been small yet. Though, the increase has not been a significant change, the organization has made sure that, it carries out its activities in the most appropriate manner without any kind of problem or issue for it. In relation to the Amazon, the stock prices shall be analyzed as well.. At the time of incorporation stock prices of the organization initially sold...
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...a. Managing Inventory is one of the most important tasks of a retailing company. If there are not enough goods in stock, some of the customers might be disappointed. Stocking too many will reduce the profit margins. Do you think Amazon.com adopted the right strategy while trying to manage its inventory? Was it successful in executing this strategy? Ans: Amazon’s was started with a focus on the following four value propositions: * Convenience * Selection * Price and * Customer Service With these objectives Amazon opted for e-business of retailing. This offered the convenience. Amazon offered more choices than a conventional retailer. Since, it had the volumes it was able to offer products cheaper to the customer. It always met the shipping schedule and therefore had a lot of satisfied customers. However, as Amazon expanded it kept on changing its strategy and adapted itself. This ensured that though the four value propositions were still maintained the supporting business model kept on evolving. Amazon's decisions in maintaining its inventory have been fruitful over time. Amazon took deliberate and conscious decisions in managing its Inventory. 1.0 Amazon’s Initial Strategy for Inventory Management After the initial success of its lean e-tailing model, Amazon realized that in order to grow and maintain customers it would need to create its own warehouses and stack inventory as per customer requirements. Though this made sure that the goods were delivered...
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...Inventory Management Professor Operations Management BUS430 February 26th, 2015 Managing inventories is integral to a company’s success. Having too much inventory can cost the company a lot of money and having too little can be costly by losing out on customers. It is a juggle for managers to find the right balance in accurately managing inventory. Not only do they have to make sure that they can meet the demand of the customer but they also have to cost effective. Two companies that manage inventory well and still make a profit are Amazon.com and Zappos. Amazon.com is an online company that was founded by Jeff Bezos in the 90’s. Amazon.com sold books online during the early internet years. In a short amount of time it was a success. At the beginning, “Amazon.com carried only about 2,000 titles in stock in its Seattle warehouse”. (Amazon.com, Inc., 2015) Their inventory at that time was very simple compared to how it is now. To stay on top of the competition, Amazon diversified from just selling books online to other products like DVDs, toys, clothing, electronics and just about anything you can think of. Having multiple merchandise requires a strategic central location where the items can be shipped to the customer. Amazon houses their inventory in different states across the country. In order for them to have a variety of items to sell, they have other companies sell their products through the Amazon website and Amazon will fulfill the orders. Amazon has fulfillment...
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...available at the time to the right place and at the right price (Kamal 2007). Amazon is one of the companies that have best supply chain practices in order to respond high level of responsiveness for the customers. Thereby, this paper explains about Amazon Company, analysis of Amazon’s supply chain, recommendations and barriers to implement will be discussed. Company background Amazon is an American commerce company based in Seattle, Washington, USA. The company used to be only a bookstore, but now it diversified into difference type of products. The goal of Amazon is to provide one stop shop experience where the customer can find everything on Amazon as earth’s biggest selection (Warman 2012). Amazon operates as a pure internet retailers that does not have retail store at all while the delivery will be done through Amazon’s networks of distribution centres. This operation makes the company is able to provide wider range of goods and lower cost of products with high quality. Moreover, it is also increase customer satisfaction as it supports customer convenience. An effective supply chain strategy makes the company is able to respond high level of responsiveness. Amazon balances between cost of distributions and level of services by having the efficient distribution centres and multi-tier inventory networks. However, there is a competition from substitution brands that provided the same service as Amazon, which are eBay and Walmart. Currently, eฺBay is pushing shipping fee to...
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...Shijing Zhao Date: February 23, 2013 Introduction and Problem Definition To best support its growth, Amazon Europe was considering building a European distribution network (EDN) where the location of inventory would be strategically determined. Among all issues to be considered, the most important one was to evaluate the three alternatives to design the EDN and choose one of them. External Analysis (See Appendix 1 for full listing) For opportunities, the first thing worth mentioning is the fast growth of international markets. Worth only $381.1 million in 2000, the Amazon International’s revenue reached at $1,168.9 million in 2002. That means the international market environment was fairly optimistic for Amazon and it should expand into other countries such as China and Korea. The second important opportunity is the large potential of European online markets and book markets. For example, Italy holds the third largest book sales of € 4,130 million in 1999 and the fourth largest online spending of €701 million in 2001. Amazon could consider Italy or other Europe countries with large potentials as its future target markets in Europe. For threats, the biggest one is the low EDI penetration among book, music and video distributors in Europe. EDI enables Amazon to get the information about the item ordered from the US supplier quickly. It would be difficult for Amazon to know details about the item ordered without EDI, which could seriously slower the order fulfillment process...
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...Operations, sat in his office in Slough, United Kingdom, and pondered what changes Amazon needed to make to sustain its growth in Europe. Established in the fall of 1998 through the acquisitions of two on-line Logistics Planning & Modelling Techniques booksellers, Bookpages.co.uk in Britain and Telebuch.de in Germany, Amazon.com’s European Distribution Strategy International, comprising Amazon Europe and Amazon Japan, now Amazon Europe had developed into three strong, independently run, country-based organizations in the UK, Germany, and France. Amazon represented 35% of Amazon revenues and was the fastest growing segment of the company (see Exhibit 1). Amazon.com’s European Distribution Strategy Amazon.com’s European Distribution Strategy Amazon.com’s European Distribution Strategy Amazon.com’s European Distribution Strategy To sustain its growth, Amazon Europe faced multiple expansion Taylor felt that a lot had been accomplished since his arrival six months options: it could replicate the broad array of product lines Amazon earlier. His team had managed to standardize and improve supply offered in the US, launch new Marketplacea activities, or expand into chain processes across Europe in the areas of vendor management, other European countries. In addition, Amazon Europe had to decide sales and operations planning, customer backlogs, and inventory which of its activities it should coordinate or consolidate at the management...
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...In the first years, Amazon intentionally kept its website systems separate from its order-fulfillment system. The separation was partly due to the fact that they did not have the technical ability to connect them, and partly because the company wanted to improve security by keeping the order systems off the Web. By 1997, Amazon‘s sales had reached $148 million for the year. Their databases were being run on servers while applications were being written in house. By early 2000, the company had over 100 separate database instances running on a variety of servers. These servers were handing terabytes of data. In 2000, Amazon decided to overhaul its entire system. The company spent $200 million on new applications, including analysis software from Epiphany, logistics from Manugistics, and a new DBMS from Oracle. The company also signed off on deals to work with SAS for data mining and analysis. However, the biggest deal was with Excelon for business-to-business integration systems. The system enables suppliers to communicate in real time, even if they do not have sophisticated IT departments. It provides a direct connection to Amazon‘s ERP system either through programming connections or through a Web browser. About the same time (May 2000), Amazon inked a deal with HP to supply new servers for IT department. The new systems ran the open-source Linux operating system. The return on investment was seen in 2001. Amazon was able to cut their IT costs by 24 percent in 2001 when...
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...are difficult things that caused headaches for managers. As we known, order fulfillment is a main EC support service along with security, payments, infrastructure and technology. So, in this paper, we will see how the world’s largest e – tailer like Amazon resolve its problems related to enhancement productivity of order fulfillment. 2. Case summary The Problem With traditional retailing, the problem is not enough delivery destinations to ship large quantities of goods. With e – tailing, the maintaining an inventory of items is necessary to fill customer’s needs immediately, so this leads to the problem of maintaining and shipping products cost. When Amazon.com launched in 1995, it was a book online retailing with “virtual retailing” business model, it operated as an intermediary; it took order from customers and received payments, and then let others fill the orders. However, this model would not work for the large e – tailer. The Solution Firstly, Amazon changed their business model from no warehouse, no inventory, and no shipments to handling its own inventory and logistics. They spent $2 billion to build warehouse and outsourced the shipment to UPS and USPS. Secondly, to fulfill many millions of orders each month, Amazon implemented a process with seven steps: Step1: A computer program checks the location of the items ordered online, and then it transmits the order to the appropriate distribution center or vendor after it identified where will fulfill the order. Step...
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...Inventory Proposal Learning Team C was tasked with preparing a project proposal that would analyze and present data on an inventory management problem that Amazon Incorporated (Amazon) could face. The Summer Historical Inventory Data shown below was used in the calculations: Month Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 1 18,000 45,100 59,800 35,500 2 19,800 46,530 30,740 51,250 3 15,700 22,100 47,800 34,400 4 53,600 41,350 73,890 68,000 5 83,200 46,000 60,200 68,100 6 72,900 41,800 55,200 61,100 7 55,200 39,800 32,180 62,300 8 57,350 64,100 38,600 66,500 9 15,400 47,600 25,020 31,400 10 27,700 43,050 51,300 36,500 11 21,400 39,300 31,790 16,800 12 17,100 10,300 31,100 18,900 The following proposal includes a short description of Amazon, a short discussion of the inventory system problem that Amazon might face, and the benefits if the problem is solved. Team C used the dataset provided to calculate monthly indexes (using year 1 month 1 as the base), quarterly indexes (using year 1 quarter 1 as the base), and annual indexes of the four years. The busy and slow periods for each were identified. Histograms were constructed for the monthly, quarterly, and annual values. A regression equation, rate of change, and a forecast for year 7 inventory costs, using rate of change as the interest rate, were calculated as part of the analysis for the annual section. Amazon Amazon is a large, internet based business that has been able to maintain its success partially due to the effectiveness...
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