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 An Integrated Commerce solution provides a business with the data and tools needed to improve information management, increase customer response time, streamline new business development processes, lower the cost of sales, increase e-sales...
[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. The success of Tesco Direct is widely seen as confirmation that high street retailers can succeed in the e-commerce...
[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. The company is attempting to spur adoption of a wider portion of its business applications for companies, called...
[January 30, 2002, 10:21]
How far can cost cuts get Amazon?
News Computers take up huge chunks of warehouse space, so Amazon's decision to let a partner oversee fulfillment was an obvious choice when the e-tailer opened a computer store last August, analysts said. For a fee and often a share of sales, Amazon...
[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 was slammed and it's one of the stronger e-tailers. Discounting and free shipping was commonplace among e-tailers in...
[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. Find out how the Internet is revolutionising the economy at the E-commerce News Section. Amazon.com will give birth to a baby goods store by Wednesday...
[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. Using the IBM reference design, engineers could create many kinds of PDAs, including inexpensive consumer...
[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. Bezos cited six goals: boost customer count, pursue operational excellence, continue to expand, expand internationally...
[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. Based on unique visitors, the top five e-commerce sites between November 14 and December 26 were Amazon.com...
[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. E-commerce is a favorite theme sounded by IBM Chairman Lou Gerstner, but his company has resisted taking this step for...
[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]
