A Report on Management Information Systems and Amazon's Implementation

This report provides an analysis of Management Information Systems (MIS) at Amazon, focusing on its use of technology such as Linux for infrastructure, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2). It discusses Amazon's unique sales strategy, challenges in implementing information systems like sorting products and addressing phishing, and issues related to social networking integration and Artificial Intelligence (AI) implementation. The report also covers the gap between marketing and sales activities and offers recommendations for competing in the market through innovation, new technology adoption, and customer loyalty enhancement. The conclusion emphasizes balancing logistics and e-commerce for long-term development, highlighting the scope for enhancing CRM via Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) within Amazon's information systems. Desklib provides access to this and other solved assignments for students.

Running head: Management Information Systems
Management Information systems
Amazon

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Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................2
Use of MIS in Amazon..................................................................................................................................2
Issues faced in implementation of IS...........................................................................................................3
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................6
References...................................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
For 20 years, Amazon has been known to its customers worldwide. It was founded in the year
1995 by Jeff Bezos. Initially Jeff wanted to sell the books he had in his own personal library so
that all the book lovers can read those book in a cheaper rate. After all these years, it continues to
build a largest book store which brings books to people from door to door (Amazon, 2016).
Amazon’s success was known to everybody in 90’s era. Later Amazon became a retailer’s
platform and there were services given to all types of customers such as Consumers, sellers,
content creators and enterprises (Amazon, 2013). It serves all such customers from the site
named as Amazon.com. Today, people can buy whatever they want to from Amazon. It is also
available on app and different types of discounts are available on Amazon and it is one of the
most famous and money earning sites all over the world.
Use of MIS in Amazon
Amazon emerged as an American multinational company of E-commerce and it leads the market
today. It also offers cloud computing services these days. Customer relationship management
and information system management are the two technologies which drives the growth of
Amazon. They help in the overall business strategy of this organization. The core strength of
Amazon is the Linux technology which helps in building the infrastructure of IT department of
Amazon. Linux has helped Amazon in the building of the organization in a way that Amazon can
easily handle million operations at the same time and also can easily handle the queries of the
customers of half of the sellers at the same time (Demir, 2011).
The information related to the debit and credit cards of more than 1000’s of customers was
secured in the data base of the organization. Later the company was exposed to such threats of
leaking this type of information. Customer relationship management was used under enterprise
resource management for storing the personal information of the customers and the trends on
which the customer purchases which is joint with marketing and ad campaigns of Amazon (Zhu
& Liu, 2016).

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MIS in Amazon reflects a very unique kind of strategy in sales. Operation in Amazon have done
the transition from single level to multi-level strategy in E-commerce.
The model of business of Amazon displays the management information systems. Browsing for
the products, managing the accounts and then the final step always comes down to shopping
(Bluschke, 2016). There is Elastic cloud computing service which is a kind of web service is
provided by Amazon. Elastic cloud computing i.e. EC2 has the main objective of serving the
developers who work with the web computing. This technology helps the end users to have
control over the computing actions and allow the customers a good usage of computer
environment of Amazon (Delfmann, et al., 2002). The positive impacts of this technology at
Amazon is that it is capable to save time by the ignorance of booting a new server. Machine
image by Amazon is developed by the end user for the utilization of E2C services. The best part
of E2C is that it has the feature pf paying for the actual use and it also helps all the developers in
customizing the applications in order to prevent the most common failures. In this E2C
technology, there exists S3 which acts as the storage device with the use of the internet. The
search agent acts as the business model which is used by Amazon when the users start surfing
the site for the products. This process takes the help of that technology which is known as data
mining where the information is stored about the products and thereafter the services are
retrieved form the data base and customers are then showed the apt results. For the consumer to
consumer transactions, Amazon takes the brokerage model because it works as a platform for
b2b service (Golafshani, 2003). Another tool names auction brokers is being used by Amazon
which involves information of bidding and fulfillment. Amazon got itself registered in the year
2005 for the offering of the personal content for the customers via tracking the actions of the
users when they surf for the products (Lai , et al., 2006).
Issues faced in implementation of IS
 Sorting of products and anti-phishing interventions: In customer relationship
management, amazon could not give the customers the option of surfing for the particular
look or product based on the recent products search, reviews and the ranking given by the
customers (Almalki, et al., 2017). The issues which are technical are very restrictive in

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terms of the promotion of implementations which are done in the system. Amazon has
been continuously affected by phishing issues which asks the consumers for the
information of accounting of the existing users of Amazon. This can be improved by
strong anti-phishing interventions that support awareness in between the customers.
 Relationship of the website with the operations in social networking: Amazon faced this
difficulty in enhancing the synergy which turns as the result of integrating the
information sourcing from the advertising, after sales services and sales too. The
information system of the organization must help in the suggestion of the touch points to
the consumers every time (Kaur & Singh, 2012). Amazon was incapable of integrating
the complete platform with social networking websites like MIS of EBay and most E-
commerce organizations do. Usage of enterprise resource planning tool would have
helped Amazon in sharing the reviews and the responses of the end users which will be
able to enhance the faith amongst the consumers.
 CRM establishments across the business operations: The customer relationship marketing
has to be planned even more and also promotes the logistics operations in a specific
manner. For this more human resources would be needed and expansion in the market is
also needed. The technology should be induced which can help in language preferences
on the online website of Amazon to help the customers who do not know English (Post,
2012). This would have helped the organization in more customer fall on the website.
Management information system should be extended even more to realize the best
brands.
 Artificial Intelligence implementation: With the implementation of MIS, Artificial
intelligence is what Amazon lacked in. This tool would have helped in the bonding of the
customers in the long run (Oredo & Njihia, 2014). Intelligent Virtual agents would have
set the future for amazon and the information systems too. Information systems would
have been a little more capable in communicating with the customers. E strategy of
Amazon should be flexible enough to meet the all-time changing demands and needs of
the customers. The logistics would have been strengthened the operations of the
departments if the virtual agents were used.
24 hours’ service for chat wasn’t initiated by Amazon on the first place. Supply Chain
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the organization would have been more driven with the usage of the intelligent virtual
agents. The management information’s system used in amazon was inefficient in solving
the questions of the customers who were constantly filing complaints because of the
delay perceived in the response form amazon. For this the use of virtual agents would
have helped the company in relying less on the consumer service center.
 Marketing Campaigns: The campaigns of marketing done form amazon should be more
customer centric. This could be done with the usage of the data of costumers who belong
to a certain community and promotes the practice of offering newsletters which would be
customized according to the needs of the customer communities. The best use of
information of the customers could be done with the usage and the implementation of the
technology. The information system implemented in amazon was not very efficient in
doing so. With the help of customer relationship management techniques via enterprise
resource management solutions, emphasis would have been given to the HRM and
tracking of the activities done is the business. There should have been the transparency in
the accomplishments which should be offered to the customers via dashboards and
tracking of sales when they order nay products.
 The gap between the marketing and sales activities: The MIS system was not able to help
Amazon in the relativity in the sales and the marketing department. ERP has given great
success to the company but the errors should be analyzed and pitfalls when the company
came across Knowledge management systems as it is an area or department which needs
more integration with the information systems and the structure. Employee of amazon
also would have offered modes of viewing the complaints of the customers and through
returned packages. This would have improved offline customer service and helped the
company to gain more emotional bonding with the customers.
Recommendations for Amazon
 Competing the market: Amazon should come up with something new like it has been in
the past. Global market keeps on changing day after day. Competitors are increasing and
investing high just to bring this organization down. There is absolutely no rim for
relaxation. This is challenging to be consistent in the market and to be on top of all the
retailer stores.

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 Innovation: New products should be innovated in the store of the company so that the
customer will retain and be loyal to the organization. For doing that, collaboration with
the brands are to be done. For collaboration, new technologies could be entertained by
Amazon in the information system and supply chain management is to be taken care of
(Imran, 2014).
 New Technology: Technology is growing day by day. For retaining its domination in the
market, Amazon needs to be technology friendly and is able to adapt to the new
technologies which come in the market. Although it has done things like that before too
by adapting the drone delivery system and investing in this type of technology
(Kornkaew, 2012).
 Customer Loyalty: Amazon has loyal customers already but these days the company is
receiving many fake products customer complaints. And this is hampering its customer’s
loyalty. The information system and the CRM should be more effective so that loyal
customers could be retained (Koymen, 2012).
Conclusion
The main focus should always be on determining the problems that surround the organization
and finding the key issues in the MIS implementation when key issues in the implementation are
being discussed. Every stage of implementation should be presented in order to process
altogether with the details of the stages. For the managers in ecommerce or logistic company,
they have to realize what is the most important thing for their company own development in a
long-term scale, and also, they should balance the relationship between logistics and E-
commerce. To offer a service of delivery is not just about sending items to customers, but satisfy
customer needs with a good attitude (Li & Fan, 2014). This report focusses on the infrastructure
of the amazon and process which happens behind the management information systems of
amazon. The complete procedure of the implementation of the information system is focussed
upon and the issues which rose in the implementation and after implementation of the
information systems are also discussed. It seems that Amazon has huge scope in the
enhancement of the customer relationship management via enterprise resource planning in
information systems.

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