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Enterprise Supply Chain from the Perspective of Socioeconomics——Taking Taobao and Amazon as Examples
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Abstract
With the rapid development of the Internet in the world, the Internet has connected the world as a whole, and online shopping has brought many conveniences to people. People can buy items from all over the world on their mobile phones or computers. Especially in the sudden epidemic period, people stay at home, so online shopping has gradually become the choice of more and more people. This paper mainly studies the corporate supply chains of Taobao and Amazon and their supply policy changes and impacts before and after the epidemic. This paper uses literature analysis method and others to analyze and study this topic. Research data are mainly obtained from professional articles or literature. The results of the study found that both companies found suitable measures for their own supply chain development during the epidemic, and adopted them in a timely manner, and finally achieved unexpectedly good results both at the economic level and social employment level.
Keywords
enterprise supply chain, M2C and FBM model, e-commerce live broadcast, logistics and transportation
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Sun,Y. (2023). Enterprise Supply Chain from the Perspective of Socioeconomics——Taking Taobao and Amazon as Examples. Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences,10,244-248.
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