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Please conduct a search ( web or articles) for a case study on a Company that has implemented ERP or involved with E-commerce . Write an executive summary on the paper and review the status of the business today. Is it better or worse and what impact did the implementation have on the Company? Based on the data and lessons learned - what should the Co. have done better ( if it was a failure ) or what was done right?

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//Here, in this study, a search has been undertaken for a case study on a Company that has implemented ERP or involved with E-commerce. With this search, the paper presents an article that represents Amazon.com.//

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This paper explains the present status of the business and its activities with the help of an article "Belfast-based Global Email Company Limited - gem - to Provide Customer Service Support for Amazon.com's Worldwide Customer Base". The main purpose behind the selection of Amazon.com is that it is the leading company in the e-commerce industry and has faced many variations in its growing period. Amazon.com is a United States based company which does business through Internet and is involved in E-commerce (Belfast-based Global Email Company Limited, 2008). It is based in Seattle, Washington. It was the first major company to sell goods over the Internet. It was established in 1994 by Jeff Bezos but was launched in 1995. When the company was launched, the name of the company was Cadabra.com. After some time Bezos renamed the company's name as Amazon.com. It was incorporated in 1994, started its services in July 1995 and was reincorporated in 1996, but first annual profit of the company was made in 2003 (Friedman, 2004).

The number of employees in the company was 13,900 in ...

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