Amazon type direct Digital Retail order sales

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Amazon type direct Digital Retail order sales

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Under this new Digital Age DLC, will it be possible to emulate direct retail sales from Warehouses so as to make possible the rise of an Amazon type of company or the morphing of a Walmart type company to direct Warehouse retail sales in order to compete against an Amazon type company. The Digital Age is what made possible Amazon type warehouse retail sales. Maybe a new type of Warehouse Retail Sales unit utilizing some modified form of an City's average Customer Traffic Index since there would be no retail store presence.
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This is a good idea. Do you have more concrete suggestions as to how this should be implemented?

I will forward your suggestions to the dev team for their consideration.
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I forgot to mention that for obvious reasons a modified form of shipping costs would have to be implemented into the price of the warehouse retail sale so that the normal retail stores can remain "close" to competitive.
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most of the products are sold by means of dropshipping.

Amazon(etc) gets a fee.

the have bigger margins on there own products offcource.

its a sell platform known to everyone who dont have lived under a rock.

im from the netherlands, here we have Bol.com.
this country is yet to small for amazon so we have to rely then on amazon uk or germany. but whit large shipping kosts.

so Dropshipping with your warehouses would be nice.
then you also need a DHL or other packege delivery service.

like this setup it works more like a advertisement platform then a direct suply chain.

(hope you can understand it)
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There are many variants all across the global, and many different business models, from local purchasing, to global procurement, to traditional import/export going online, to wholesalers online, to retailers online, to drop shipping, to online display platform, even virtual shopping, and even using image recognition to facilitate purchasing similar items, to drone delivery, and all the different combinations. We have grocery shopping package deal, to even cooked meal automated pickup machines (not vending machine, but pick manuel and deliver to nearby subway stations, and grocery stores with machines that kept it fresh) which I think is also cool.

This area has many innovations in the past decades and completely change the traditional producer-wholesaler-retailer models.
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Which of the following methods do you guys prefer for establishing linkage between an e-commerce Internet company and warehouses/factories where the physical goods are shipped from?

1) Add a new unit type for warehouses and factories which you may use to link it to an e-commerce Internet company. The warehouse and factory will be linked with an e-commerce internet company for dropshipping.

2) Add a new interface for an e-commerce Internet company where you can link it to warehouses and factories. The interface will be a list box where a new record you add will be linked to a warehouse or a factory. So you can set up linkages to a large number of warehouses and factories in a single list box.
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David wrote:Which of the following methods do you guys prefer for establishing linkage between an e-commerce Internet company and warehouses/factories where the physical goods are shipped from?

1) Add a new unit type for warehouses and factories which you may use to link it to an e-commerce Internet company. The warehouse and factory will be linked with an e-commerce internet company for dropshipping.

2) Add a new interface for an e-commerce Internet company where you can link it to warehouses and factories. The interface will be a list box where a new record you add will be linked to a warehouse or a factory. So you can set up linkages to a large number of warehouses and factories in a single list box.
Option 1 feels more close to the original game mechanics and organics, but the downside is with very limited space in 3x3 grids, they layout and micromanagement of all of them will be nightmare in late game.

Option 2 is probably like a centralized IT department a corporation can have, and won't interrupt the existing interface and layout. And easily to cut off as DLC contents. However the downside is it doesn't feel natural, unlike the "local IT departments" in every firm, and the setup phase of a giant corporation will be a click feast and it will be difficult to track every factory and warehouses with a list box. (maybe a mixed of two? a factory and warehouse just need a integrated local IT unit, and linked to a central IT department firm, and the linkages to actual e-commerce facilities through the central IT firm which still has a 3x3 layout with multiple floors, hence can linked many e-commerce, but still limited and forced players to expand their IT departments?)

Personally I would pick option 2, due to this being a DLC mechanism.
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Option 1 feels more close to the original game mechanics and organics, but the downside is with very limited space in 3x3 grids, they layout and micromanagement of all of them will be nightmare in late game.
Only one of such linkage unit needs to be added to a warehouse/factory as it will link all the products in the warehouse/factory to the e-commerce firm.

We may also add multiple-floor capacity to warehouses (but not factories). Players may set up warehouses (like Amazon warehouses) and source products from factories.
Option 2 is probably like a centralized IT department a corporation can have, and won't interrupt the existing interface and layout. And easily to cut off as DLC contents. However the downside is it doesn't feel natural, unlike the "local IT departments" in every firm, and the setup phase of a giant corporation will be a click feast and it will be difficult to track every factory and warehouses with a list box. (maybe a mixed of two? a factory and warehouse just need a integrated local IT unit, and linked to a central IT department firm, and the linkages to actual e-commerce facilities through the central IT firm which still has a 3x3 layout with multiple floors, hence can linked many e-commerce, but still limited and forced players to expand their IT departments?)
One possibility is to have a "batch add" function where it will automatically add all products from your warehouses/factories to the list.

As for the product selling prices on the e-commerce site, the player have to set them individually if the player is not happy with the default selling prices (like how retail stores work now.)
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David wrote:
Option 1 feels more close to the original game mechanics and organics, but the downside is with very limited space in 3x3 grids, they layout and micromanagement of all of them will be nightmare in late game.
Only one of such linkage unit needs to be added to a warehouse/factory as it will link all the products in the warehouse/factory to the e-commerce firm.

We may also add multiple-floor capacity to warehouses (but not factories). Players may set up warehouses (like Amazon warehouses) and source products from factories.
Option 2 is probably like a centralized IT department a corporation can have, and won't interrupt the existing interface and layout. And easily to cut off as DLC contents. However the downside is it doesn't feel natural, unlike the "local IT departments" in every firm, and the setup phase of a giant corporation will be a click feast and it will be difficult to track every factory and warehouses with a list box. (maybe a mixed of two? a factory and warehouse just need a integrated local IT unit, and linked to a central IT department firm, and the linkages to actual e-commerce facilities through the central IT firm which still has a 3x3 layout with multiple floors, hence can linked many e-commerce, but still limited and forced players to expand their IT departments?)
One possibility is to have a "batch add" function where it will automatically add all products from your warehouses/factories to the list.

As for the product selling prices on the e-commerce site, the player have to set them individually if the player is not happy with the default selling prices (like how retail stores work now.)
So a mixture of the two is still preferable?

By the description, I feel the e-commerce site is essentially like the virtual "retail store" (obviously), just that it doesn't "freight goods" to the site, but instead link to the "redirect unit" in the factory/warehouse (a virtual sales unit?). Perhaps we can treat this "linkage/redirect unit" in factory/warehouse as "virtual sales unit" in concept (and with the same linking logic as current sales unit), the e-commerce firm "links" to that unit, but didn't actually purchase the goods, just with interface to change price and show a list of linked products?

And will there be any freight cost? or will a "transport service" company also need to be linked to provide the service?
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