Re:Amazon as experiment
by hef19898 on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @04:00PM
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The B2B business Amazon is running is, IMHO, more of a competition for the office supplies and small kind of unimportant stuff. Everybody currently in that business should be worries, yes.
The industrial, Full Truck or Container Load B2B supply chain is different beast. Not that Amazon couldn't figure it out, especially the logistics side. They are doing anyway already for themselves. Organization wise I think it is a different story. And in that field I always have a hard time to understand all the potential profits customers leave on the table. At my current gig procurement is buying full containers from Asia that are than directly delivered to our sites. They buy from a European trader only placing orders in Asia after we did. And the Asian supplier is only starting production after the trader ordered. Crazy business, right? And there are a lot of B2B customers like out there, other people's lazyness seems to be a solid basis for a company.
The industrial, Full Truck or Container Load B2B supply chain is different beast. Not that Amazon couldn't figure it out, especially the logistics side. They are doing anyway already for themselves. Organization wise I think it is a different story. And in that field I always have a hard time to understand all the potential profits customers leave on the table. At my current gig procurement is buying full containers from Asia that are than directly delivered to our sites. They buy from a European trader only placing orders in Asia after we did. And the Asian supplier is only starting production after the trader ordered. Crazy business, right? And there are a lot of B2B customers like out there, other people's lazyness seems to be a solid basis for a company.