Building a Korean Fashion Platform in Taobao, China’s Biggest Online Commerce: The Case of Fashion e-Commerce Company Accommate
- Authors
- 한동교; 유병준; 전성민
- Issue Date
- Jun-2015
- Publisher
- 서울대학교 경영연구소
- Keywords
- Online marketplace; Alibaba; Taobao; Tmall; Fashion; e-Commerce
- Citation
- Seoul Journal of Business, v.21, no.1, pp.87 - 104
- Journal Title
- Seoul Journal of Business
- Volume
- 21
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 87
- End Page
- 104
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gachon/handle/2020.sw.gachon/11558
- DOI
- 10.35152/snusjb.2015.21.1.004
- ISSN
- 1226-9816
- Abstract
- In 2008, a Korean online fashion distributor, Accommate, is founded in China and it tapped into the Chinese online market with the alliance of Taobao, online C2C(consumer-to-consumer) commerce platform of Alibaba.
Taobao offered free listings to attract more sellers in order to compete e-bay and introduced keyword search features which Accommate made use of as an early adopter and partner. As Taobao became China’s market leader, Accommate secured the partner position to distribute Korean apparels and strengthened its partnership with Alibaba. Soon Alibaba introduced a new online brand mall called Taobao Mall or Tmall to complement the C2C platform. Accommate extended its business with Alibaba by taking charge of the Korean product sections in the online brand mall of Tmall. From the perspective of scales, China represented for Accommate a dynamic and fast-growing market, though it is so competitive. Moreover, it is a tough job to manage the adequate level of inventory for clothes which have as short lifecycle as 45 days. A number of Korean predecessors failed to manage cash flow issues resulted from the inventory.
Accommate came to encounter the management issues of both meeting the changing requirement of Chinese customers and managing the inventory level at the same time. Considering these changes and challenges, we may well think what the strategic and operational issues regarding Accommate are and how the company should grow in this fast growing electronic marketplace. This case study will help readers think about the emerging electronic market in China and form an opinion on the associated management issues and analyses.
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