Centralized Inventory and Advertisement Management System

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Centralized Inventory and Advertisement
Management System

• By Indriyanto Hariyono
• Oct 10, 2007

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Many Online Trading Services

• Amazon.com
• Craigslist.org
• Ebay.com
• Sell.com
• Caretotrade.com
• Etc.

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Selling An Item At Amazon
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Selling An Item At Ebay.com
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Problem

• A seller with 10 different items to sell have to
  manually go to each of the online trading
  services and post advertisement for each of the
  item
• The seller must check everyday if any of the
  items is sold.
• If any of the items is sold in one of the web
  sites, the seller needs to adjust the inventory
  for that item on the other sites so that no
  oversold happen (same thing with return
  merchandise)
• Imagine if the seller has 20 or 30 different
  goods to sell
• Posting the items become tedious
• Updating the inventory become tedious
• The whole operation becomes inefficient

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Problem Solution

• Centralized Inventory and Advertisement
  Management System
• The sellers upload their inventory to the CIAMS
  system
• CIAMS system will list the items automatically on
  the following web sites
• Amazon.com
• Sell.com
• Ebay.com
• Craigslist.org
• Whenever a sale or a refund happen, CIAMS system
  will update the inventory on each of the websites
• Whenever a seller wants to check the status of
  his/her items, just login to CIAMS and CIAMS will
  give a complete report on
• What items has been sold and on which web sites
• How many is still left
• How much profit the seller has made

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Pre-condition To Success

• Amazon.com, ebay.com, sell.com and craigslist.org
  provide APIs to register a product and check the
  status of a product