Amazon posts first profit
News There's lower marketing costs, a big improvement on fulfillment -- in absolute dollars, it dropped by $21m year over year. The company's fulfillment, marketing, and technology and content expenses were lower in the fourth quarter compared to the...
[January 22, 2002, 13:17]
The Day Ahead: Amazon.com's march to profits still hazy
News Retail margins are weak and possibly weaker depending on how you count fulfillment costs. Meanwhile, fulfillment costs as a percentage of sales increased to 17 percent from 16 percent in the fourth quarter.
[April 27, 2000, 12:04]
Deploying Cisco License Manager in Isolated Networks for CLM 2.1
White Papers It automates the licensing workflows associated with fulfillment and accelerates deployment of licenses in customer networks. Cisco License Manager is a lightweight, GUI-based application for managing Cisco IOS Software activation and licenses for...
[October 7, 2008, 1:01]
Achieving Integrated Commerce With Salesforce.com and Sterling Multi-Channel Selling
White Papers Nowadays eCommerce systems and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems have a great deal of valuable process and data overlap when it comes to managing and executing sales, customer management and fulfillment functions.
[May 15, 2008, 1:01]
Asda embraces Tesco's approach to e-commerce
News The closure of the Watford and Croydon depots will mean that Asda will no longer support both models of e-commerce fulfillment. UK supermarket chain Asda is planning to follow Tesco's lead by fulfilling all its Internet orders through its existing...
[January 8, 2002, 16:20]
Oracle tweaks pricing
News The package of programs includes software for marketing, sales, accounting and order fulfillment, among other business functions. Oracle on Tuesday officially said it would alter the pricing methods for its business applications, after the news...
[January 30, 2002, 10:21]
How far can cost cuts get Amazon?
News The changes helped lower fourth-quarter inventory levels by 18 percent and cut fulfillment expenses by 17 percent from the same period in 2000. Computers take up huge chunks of warehouse space, so Amazon's decision to let a partner oversee...
[April 22, 2002, 7:31]
Amazon beats expectations on higher sales
News Under the agreements, business partners pay Amazon a fee and sometimes a share of sales, and in return, the e-tailer takes on a range of duties, from building Web stores to overseeing fulfillment of orders.
[April 24, 2002, 9:45]
The Day Ahead: eToys collapse
News Shares were also hammered because eToys said it would take control of its fulfillment, which was very good but not perfect. EToys is trading at a 52-week low and is more than $3 (£1.86) shy of its May 20 IPO price.
[January 28, 2000, 12:23]
Amazon to partner in baby goods store
News Amazon will be responsible for online customer service, maintaining the Web site and fulfillment. Amazon.com will give birth to a baby goods store by Wednesday as part of a deal with Toys "R" Us. The new store will carry the Babies "R" Us name...
[May 23, 2001, 15:25]
The Day Ahead: Buy.com soon to become Sell.com
News Buy.com said $20m to $30m of the funds will be used for technology and fulfillment upgrades, $70m to $90m will go to sales and marketing, $12.5m will repay debt and the remainder will be for working capital.
[January 31, 2000, 11:33]
US Report: Lycos opens online store
News Lycos will take the orders online, and then turn them over to its suppliers, who will handle fulfillment, said Jeff Bennett, managing director of e-commerce at the Waltham, Massachusetts, firm. Lycos says selling goods on its own site will offer...
[December 9, 1998, 14:38]
IBM plans more Linux-powered PDAs
News What we're trying to do with the price and fulfillment is make it so a senior engineer can go out on the Internet and get it," he said. IBM's Microelectronics division announced on Tuesday it will offer a PDA blueprint aimed at fostering the...
[January 22, 2003, 7:38]
Amazon.com misses estimates but sets profit roadmap
News Predictably, the company's fulfillment expenses were 16 percent of its total sales, up 10 percent from the year-ago quarter. But officials broke with company tradition and mentioned the "P" word -- profits.
[February 3, 2000, 9:43]
Amazon takes the festive prize
News Fulfillment issues cropped up at a few popular sites, resulting in orders showing up after Christmas or, in some cases, never showing up. But the big surprise, according to the traffic data released by the Web measurement firm, was how well the...
[January 4, 2000, 8:39]
CMGI reorganises business units
News The company said it will use those divisions -- search and portal, infrastructure and enabling technologies, internet professional service, interactive marketing, e-business and fulfillment, and venture capital -- when it reports earnings...
[September 7, 2000, 13:09]
IBM to sell PCs via the Web
News Albert said IBM's decision to let its channel partners take the lead in handling fulfillment of Web orders was a promising sign. Apple Computer, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard also sell over the Web. You'll see us get aggressive in that respect," said...
[February 20, 1998, 11:59]
The Integrated Commerce Solution: Closing the Costly Information Gap Between e-Commerce and CRM to Boost Sales Productivity
White Papers The client needed to empower internal sales with a tool to more efficiently manage leads to fulfillment - a fluid solution that would streamline the ordering process and deliver self-serve efficiency through the timely sharing of critical...
[May 15, 2008, 1:01]
