The Amazon.com group is now also an independent logistics provider called Amazon Supply Chain Services. Companies can order transport services even if they have nothing to do with Amazon’s online shops. The offer also includes related services such as packaging, storage and, for imports from the People’s Republic of China to the USA, customs clearance.
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The company announced this on Monday. Accordingly, the entire Amazon logistics fleet is ready, with planes, trucks and shipping. It doesn’t have to be about delivery to customers either: one of the partners with whom Amazon tested the offer before launching on the market uses it to have raw materials delivered to its own factories. Another has Amazon transport the finished products to its own delivery centers in several countries.
Amazon has already successfully implemented the strategy in a similar way: The cloud division known as Amazon Web Services (AWS) was originally used to operate the company’s own online shops; From 2002 onwards it was gradually opened up to services to third parties. For example, since 2006, Amazon has been selling server computing power for self-configurable Linux servers on an unbureaucratic basis as needed.
Also for third-party web shops
Amazon Supply Chain Services also expressly supports competing online shops. A uniform storage and delivery system is also possible. Companies can store and deliver goods that they sell on their own websites as well as via Amazon – regardless of which online shop the order is placed through.
The spectrum ranges from individual packages to less-than-truckload (LTL) to completely filled semi-trailers. In the USA, Amazon also receives goods from over 50 other transport companies and forwards them.
It is currently unclear exactly which services are available in which countries. The group also does not provide any information about the transport of dangerous goods. Amazon Supply Chain Services will clarify such details upon request from potential customers. The service is not intended for consumers who occasionally want to send a package or move their household goods.
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