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It is known fact that if the management of a company have a strong vision and
foresee the developments going to happen in the market and orient the
companys focus towards accepting those developments by nurturing its
competencies, then the subject company is bound to grow. Same was the case
for Zappos. Zappos management had imbibed a strong vision in its every aspect
of business be it customer handling, supply chain operation, creating a user
friendly web interface or building up trained
competencies thats why they had invested continuously in the company to help
it to grow. Since Zippos was based on such sound fundamentals of business, it
ensured the sustainability of their competencies.
3. How would you expand the business? Would you add more
products, more geographies, or by selling private labels? As you
expand the business, how can the company become more
profitable, particularly in light of the costs associated with the
focus on service?
There are three sides of concern while going for an expansion of Zappos
business- geographic expansion, more products or by selling private labels.
4.How would you expect the environment of a more costconscious consumer to affect Zappos business? What can Zappos
do in such an environment to maintain sales growth?
Zappos should look to serve the cost-conscious customers through 6pm and
overstock. It should not look to serve these customers through the existing
supply chain and guaranteed next day delivery as with those of the zappos
customers as it would only bring lesser margins and maybe losses.
Instead
they
should
look
to
focus
on
expanding
their
reach
of fulfilment centres (maybe smaller ones) to reach out to this segment of the
customers (which is not that small also). They can tie up with retailers where
these discounted goods can be sent off to and then further on distributed among
the end customers which would reduce the per delivery cost. Cost-conscious
customers primary concern is to get the best price for the product, for them all
other aspects (delivery time, newness of the product etc.) come much later and
zappos should try to use this to their advantage by making the supply chain
more cost effective rather than pure efficient. This will help them in maintaining
growth among this segment of customers too.