quality is shown to mediate the relationship between
user ratings and purchase intention. Buttle et al.
(Buttle 1997) carried out mail surveys on 4,250
certificated organizations; 1,220 (28.7 percent)
responded. Marketing considerations were secondary
in seeking registration, and outcomes related to
profitability and process improvement were more
highly valued than marketing benefits.
Logistics and transportation are also important for
e-commerce companies. Speranza et al. (Speranza
2018) propose that problems in transportation and
logistics had to be tackled long before computers and
Operational Research (OR) became available to
support decision making. After the first optimization
models were developed, OR has substantially
contributed to making transportation systems efficient
and companies with complex transportation and
logistics problems competitive. Gunasekaran and
Ngai et al. (Gunasekaran & Ngai 2003) analyze the
company, a small third‐party logistics (3PL) company
in Hong Kong, which has been successful in its overall
business performance and satisfying customers. This
company's strategic alliances with both clients and
customers have helped to improve the utilization of its
resources, such as warehouse space and transportation
fleets. Also, the company is in the process of
expanding its operations across greater China, to
become a full‐fledged 3PL company.
E-commerce is becoming more popular. Sarkis
and Talluri (Sarkis, Meade & Talluri 2004) realize that
a strong supporting logistics or electronic logistics (e‐
logistics) function is an important organizational
offering from both the commercial and the consumer
perspective. The implications of e‐logistics models
and practices cover the forward and reverse logistics
functions of organizations. They also have a direct and
profound impact from an environmental perspective.
Barnes et al. (Barnes 2002) analyze that fueled by the
increasing saturation of mobile technology, such as
phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs), m-
commerce promises to inject considerable change into
the way certain activities are conducted. Equipped
with micro-browsers and other mobile applications,
the new range of mobile technologies offers the
Internet ‘in your pocket’ for which the consumer
possibilities are endless, including banking, booking
or buying tickets, shopping, and real-time news.
Bichler and Zhao (Bichler, Segev & Zhao 1998)
component-based e-commerce technology is a recent
trend towards resolving the e-commerce challenge at
both system and application levels. Instead of
delivering a system as a prepacked monolith system
containing any conceivable feature, component-based
systems consist of a lightweight kernel to which new
features can be added in the form of components.
Jing Dong is one of the giants in the Chinese
market. Li Mei and Guo Chen (Li & Guo 2015)
research the issue of self- logistics in Jing Dong under
the background of the rapid development of e-
commerce. The analysis of the advantages and
disadvantages and the comparison of the third-party
logistics proved that self- logistics enjoyed significant
advantages. However, there exist potential risks of too
large investment, difficult management of staff, and
distraction from core business. Sun and Zhou (Sun,
Liu, Higgs & Zhou 2017) consider the research status
of the Internet of Things as applied to supply chain
management. A supply chain analysis model is built
under the Internet of Things environment using Jing
Dong Mall as a case study. The results show that the
Internet of Things improved the quality of information
available to Jing Dong, enhanced its management
efficiency, and improved customers' satisfaction; it
also reduced the cost of supply chain management
whilst creating more new value.
In this paper, we mainly analyze the e-commerce
orders of Olist Store in Brazil from 2017 to 2018
focused on four dimensions: monthly sales, order
confirmation time, scores of reviews, and the number
of regular customers.
Firstly, we can see that sale volume has been
increasing throughout 2017 and reached the highest
level of the year in November. The decline was
significant in December. Sales have declined every
month since 2018, but overall sales are higher than
2017. Due to the last few months of 2018 being
missing, we do not know how the sales are going in
the rest of the months. Therefore, we guess it will hit
a new high. Secondly, we analyze the order time. We
know that the confirmation time for each quarter was
less than 5 minutes, but similar to the previous
analysis, due to the autumn and winter demand being
high, the confirmation time for spring and summer
was higher than autumn and winter. Thirdly, due to the
user evaluation, it is one of the indicators used to
evaluate the quality of goods, so we analyze the user
evaluation. 59% of users gave a 5 score and 13% gave
a 1-2 score. Overall, customer satisfaction at Olist
stores is not very high. As a result, the total number of
user reviews dropped significantly in August 2017.
We speculate that the reason influencing this factor is
product quality or platform service. Because the
repurchase rate is the key to the sustainable operation
of Olist stores. In the end, we analyze the number of
regular customers. 90% of customers buy once a
month, and less than 13% of customers buy more than
three times a month. For this purpose, the Olist Store