Supply Chain Integration on Amazon
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Supply chain integration is a major contributing factor to organizational success. The goal of supply chain integration is alignment within the supply chain. As a business leader, how can you achieve greater supply chain integration with suppliers and customers?
Amazon is a prime example of a company that has successfully managed its supply chain to achieve growth and profitability. Research the progression of Amazon's supply chain integration. Write a 1,000-1,250-word paper that address the following questions:
How do sales and operations planning in supply chain integration impact the company overall? What would Amazon's medium- and long-term forecast inform the operations management department? How do logistics, transportation modes, and warehouse locations impact Amazon's competitiveness?
How does global sourcing and procurement impact the overall effectiveness of the supply chain? What are the benefits and challenges that have occurred when outsourcing logistic and other functions?
How has Amazon successfully leveraged e-commerce strategies to promote supply chain integration and boost sales and growth for the organization? Which strategies have been particularly effective and why?
Do you feel that Amazon sets an example for other companies to model regarding supply chain integration? Be sure to explain your rationale.
How would conscious capitalism and a Christian worldview impact Amazon's supply chain integration?
Incorporate five to seven resources to support your paper.
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This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies:
MBA/MSL; MBA, Accounting; MBA, Cybersecurity; MBA, Finance; MBA, Project Management; MBA, Sports Business; MBA, Strategic Human Resource Management; MBA/MSN, Nursing Leadership in Health Care Systems
1.3/7.3 Evaluate e-commerce strategies to leverage web-based sales to promote growth.
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Introduction
Supply chain integration involves a complex web of relationships, networks, and processes moving downstream and upstream to offer consumer products and services within a business organization. The business leader can achieve outstanding customer and supplier supply chain integration by building a robust collaborative supplier integration mechanism that shares working, financial, and strategic knowledge and competencies between all company stakeholders, including buying firms and suppliers, to enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty. Corporate leaders might practice collaborative customer integration to attain greater supply chain integration by establishing and maintaining outstanding customer integration. The business leader can build strong and attractive customer integration through joint coordination efforts on inventory forecasting, open transparency information sharing, and introducing new products to increase customer performance. This paper discusses how Amazon successfully manages its supply chain processes to achieve sustainable profitability and growth.
Impact of Sales and Operations Planning in Supply Chain Integration on Amazon
The sales and operations planning in supply chain integration have enabled Amazon to maintain good relationships with customers by offering high-quality products as well as fast logistics services. In this context, Amazon provides customers with easy application and acquisition of their online services by recommending products to consumers based on information provided by customers are they create and fill in online shopping accounts and purchase exercises. Research conceptualizes sales and operations planning activities as an effective marketing approach that allows customers to choose their preferred products, thus making shopping increasingly convenient and easy (Zhu, 2022). In this way, sales and operations planning enables the company to demonstrate greater visibility related to supply and demand, better inventory management, improved promotional planning and augmented accuracy in making budget forecasts.
Amazon’s Medium- and Long-Term Forecast and Operations Management Department
Amazon’s medium and long-term forecast would inform the operations management department to determine methods of increasing consumer loyalty and satisfaction by evaluating their needs and how to deliver them in the market. Accordingly, medium and long-term forecasts provide an opportunity for the operation management department to predict customer demand in the global market and establish mechanisms to deliver products and services on time (Amazon, 2020). In addition, through Amazon’s medium and long-term forecast, the operations management department could minimize inventory stock-out by making early supply arrangements.
Logistics, Transportation Modes, and Warehouse Locations Implications on Amazon’s Competitiveness
Amazon’s transportation modes, logistics, warehouse, and logistics influenced its competitiveness by augmenting customer satisfaction and loyalty through delivering its products and services ordered on time. For example, there could be a scenario where a customer requests Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) goods and the amazon company-owned-inventory item. In that case, the firm will deliver both items to the consumer in a single box to enhance efficiency. The customers would receive their ordered commodities quickly to increase their satisfaction. This way, the company outshines their rivals in the market to augment its competitiveness (Yasin, 2022). In order to establish dominance in the global market, Amazon’s transportation modes and warehouse locations are strategically situated to offer other firms an opportunity to use their brands upon request. Having other small business companies use their brands enables them to expand communication networks and establishes strong bond in the global market.
Impact of Global Sourcing and Procurement on Amazon Supply Chain Efficacy
The global sourcing and procurement offer Amazon company an opportunity to obtain and increase supplier performance in the world market, which directly relates to augmented cost savings. In this context, global sourcing and procurements lead to positive impacts on Amazon operations sustained through the supply chain since it streamlines the procedures of the goods transportation, thus making it more efficient (Mark, 2018). In addition, global procurement and outsourcing support supply chain management by enabling firms to optimize operational efficiency and achieve impressive margins that allow profits as well as investment in growth (Mark, 2018). In oth...