Supply Chain of Snapdeal
Subject : Supply Chain Management
Submitted By: Arushi Bhasin & Vidhi Nagar

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Objective Of the assignment : To study the supply chain, flow chart, agility and case study of an e-commerce website . E-commerce website chosen: Snapdeal

A brief about E-Commerce: E-commerce can be defined as the conduct of business communication and transactions over networks and through computers or as the buying and selling of goods and services, and the transfer of funds, through digital communications. It can include all inter-company and intra-company functions (such as marketing, finance, manufacturing, selling and negotiation) that enable commerce. e-commerce usescommunications such as electronic mail, EDI, file transfer, facsimile,video conferencing, workflow, or interaction with a remote computer. e-commerce has also become associated with solutions and tools such as portals, e-marketplaces, e-auctions or virtual inventory. The last few years have seen a dramatic increase in the capabilities of e-commerce as hundreds of millions of dollars were invested in building new solutions and in fighting a marketing war for apparent first mover advantages. At a simplisticlevel, supply chains are typically made up of three major flows – physical, financial and information. e-commerce has the capacity to affect all three. . Physical flows can be affected by using information to avoid physical movements and to make product information available throughvirtual ways. In essence, e-commerce can give companies access to more markets and customers without the physical need to move the levels of product and inventory that were required in the past. Information flows can be affected by the capacity of e-commerce solutions to provide „24 x 7 x 365‟ access to information and to eliminate traditional paper-based approaches to working and company interactions.