Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Running head : AMAZON SUPPLY CHAIN
Amazon Supply Chain
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AMAZON SUPPLY CHAIN1
Supply chain management can be segregated in three areas, namely purchasing,
manufacturing as well as transport. Transport is an significant fragment of the supply chain
management as there is no unified production area and consumption area. Responsive
transportation management can begin with the end to end visibility of the network. The visibility
of the network benefits the business, and it furthermore centralizes the production by making the
supply of the production segregated (Ji, Wu & Zhu, 2016). An economic transportation network
also begins with the shift of attitude in the business. Transport is the largest component of the
structure of the cost.
Amazon. Com is an internet-based retailer manufacturer and supplier of the goods, and
this is the most paramount example of electronic commerce. The headquarter of amazon is in
Seattle and Washington. The strength of the company is nearly 750000. The main focus of the
company is e-bases commerce and could computing. The company is known for its disruption as
well as established industries through innovation, which is technological and involves large scale
innovation on a mass scale (Crainic & Laporte, 2016). The company is credited with the largest
online market place. The company launched its chain in 1997 with respect to the fulfillment in
the centers. The company has numerous distribution chain, and there is nearly 75 fulfillment
center.
The company enjoys the cult of supply chain management. The company is the customer
favorite mainly because of its quick delivery and efficient system. Amazon has effectively
combined the sophistication combination of information and technology through supply chain
management (Yu et al. 2016). What makes the supply chain management effective is the
combination of the extensive use of multi-tier inventory management besides exceptional use of
the transportation network. Subcontracting inventory management besides insourcing logistics of