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Author Das, Sanchoy, author.

Title Fast Fulfillment The Machine That Changed Retailing
Published New York : Business Expert Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 232 pages) : illustrations
Series Marketing collection
Marketing collection.
Contents Chapter 1. Paradigm shift in retailing logistics -- fulfillment -- Chapter 2. The evolution of online retail -- Chapter 3. Speed -- the necessary condition -- Chapter 4. Mathematics of fast fulfillment -- Chapter 5. Innovative differentiators -- Chapter 6. Last mile fulfillment -- Chapter 7. Humans and automation -- Chapter 8. Brownian organization -- Chapter 9. Modeling and optimization -- Chapter 10. Machine building -- Chapter 11. Team innovation
Summary Managers are frustrated just reading about how great Amazon is, and how startups are innovating fantastic technology driven processes. Here is the book, written in a simple easy to read style which unravels the technical mystery of the fulfillment machine. It levels the knowledge field, reveals the secrets of fast fulfillment, and helps the reader construct a plan to innovate and be ready to face the disruptors. This book provides insights and process details of how to design and build disruptive innovations, so that you are not flying blind or just throwing darts in an effort to pivot/expand
Analysis Omni channel
Amazon logistics
Supply chain engineering
Lean supply chain
E-commerce process design
Warehouse logistics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-223) and index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Amazon.com (Firm)
SUBJECT Amazon.com (Firm) fast
Subject Business logistics -- Planning
Inventory control.
Electronic commerce.
Materials management.
Industrial procurement.
Business logistics.
inventorying.
Materials management
Inventory control
Industrial procurement
Electronic commerce
Business logistics
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1637420773
9781637420775