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English for Academic Purposes (2013) Amazon’s Logistics management system Chaocong Zhuang De Valera 08 .Aug. 2013 A, Inc. is an electronic commerce (E-Commerce) in America. It is one of the world’s largest online retailers. Statistics by Spiro showed that the company had sold products in all 50 states and in 45 countries in 2009, like America, Canada, and United Kingdom (Spiro, 2009). Amazon started as an online bookstore, then numerous commodities were on sale, like electronic products, furniture, food, and sports goods, etc. Since 2002, it has earned the fat profit (Barney, 2012). Because of the internet and information bubble (dot-com bubble) from 1997 to 2000, many e-commerce companies went bankrupt, but Amazon survived (Johnson, 2010). The main factor leads to success of Amazon is Logistics transportation, which was treated as one of the largest obstacles in the development of e-commerce. This essay will discuss the features of logistics management in Amazon, and analyze how Amazon succeeds due to its specific logistics management. In the tough time of e-commerce (dot-com bubble), Amazon’s strategy was unusual, it did not make any profits in these years. A case study from Chaffey, Amazon put forward an innovative promotion strategy – providing the delivery service for free. If consumers purchase certain price of commodities, they will receive free-shipping service (Chaffey 2012). This measure promoted greatly the consumer’s passion in shopping online, and reassured them the worry of high cost on online shopping. As a result, the growing consumer group brought great economic benefits. According to Spector’s research, the client base of Amazon increased to 40 million, and the profits in the forth quarter of 2001 is 5 million dollar (Spector, 2002). The reality of high prices in online shopping lead to the loss of consumers in many companies, such as P and Cisco, failed completely. In contrast, Amazon used logistics as the promotion strategy,