Amazon
- 3. POINTS OF DISSCUSSION • Introduction • Company • Historical development • Lean tool in the company • Benefit of lean strategy • Improvement area
- 4. PRINCIPLE of Lean • Elimination of Waste • Continuous Improvement • Respect For Humanity • Levelized Production • Just In Time Production • Quality Built In
- 5. ABOUT AMAZON • A world-class e-commerce platform with books and movies and TV show and have expanded our offerings to include the Kindle family of e- reader, the amazon fashion store and various products under different categories. • It is still “Day 1” and we continue to relentlessly focus on using our investments in technology and innovation to transform the lives of our customers and all our partners. • It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the United States.
- 6. Historical development • Jeff Bezos incorporated the company as "Cadabra" on July 5, 1994and the site went online as Amazon.com in 1995. • The company began as an online bookstore, an idea spurred off with discussion with john Ingram of Ingram Book. • Amazon was incorporated in 1994, in the state of Washington. In July 1995, the company began service and sold its first book on Amazon.com. • Amazon's initial business plan was unusual; it did not expect to make a profit for four to five years. • In 1999, Times magazine named Bezos the person of the year, recognizing the company's success in popularizing online shopping.
- 7. LEAN TOOLS IN COMPANY • 5s • Bottleneck analysis • Jidoka • Continuous flow • Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) and defects reduction • Root Cause Analysis
- 8. IMPROVEMENT AREA • More filtering options • More filtering options • Give me author alerts • Clean up reviews • Show me contact details • Show me contact details • Less cluttered product pages • Less advertising on product pages
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