The Movie Rental Industry

Term Paper # 102345

Business > Applied Operations
Business > Companies
Business > Industries

This paper discuses the supply chain management strategies of the movie rental industry and how it applies to their to eBusiness approach especially for companies such as Netflix, Blockbuster and Intelliflix.

1,485 words () | 4 sources | APA | 2005 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that a supply chain covers all aspects of component and service production. The author points out that eBusiness has helped supply chain management through the automation of tasks, which leads to reduced costs for all companies, increased efficiency and added timeliness of component supply. The paper relates that the movie rental industry has been remarkably slow to adopt eBusiness strategies especially when considering that the industry product is technology based. The author states that a rudimentary and fragmented evolution of the supply chain in this industry has created a patchwork of delivery methods to the end user. The paper reports that, in 1998, Netflix revolutionizes the industry with the first online DVD rental service, which allowed the company to eliminate the liability of retail space expense and customer queues.

Table of Contents:
Supply Chain
Industry Supply Chain History
Netflix
Blockbuster
Intelliflix

From the Paper:

"Utilizing automated ordering helps reduce costs for all the companies in the supply chain as companies do not have to devote human resources to performing those tasks of placing, receiving and processing orders and processing invoices and payments. Another benefit of eBusiness websites is that companies can monitor their orders to see what stage it is at and track the delivery through websites such as Fedex.com or UPS.com which are two shipping websites that offer delivery tracking."

Sample of Sources Used:

Netflix, Inc. Overview. Retrieved December 1, 2007 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbuster_Inc.
Blockbuster, Inc. Wikipedia.com. Retrieved December 1, 2007, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbuster_Inc.
Intelliflix, Inc. Wikipedia.com. Retrieved December 1, 2007 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelliflix
Schnieder, G.P. 2004. Electronic Commerce: The Second Wave (5th Ed). Thomson Course Technology