Amazon has announced the launch of ‘Supply Chain by Amazon’, which it describes as ‘an end-to-end, fully-automated set of supply chain services that provides sellers with a complete solution to quickly and reliably move products directly from their manufacturers to customers around the world’.
The fully-managed service is now available to its sellers, with Amazon saying that ‘sellers can leverage Amazon’s advanced logistics, warehousing, distribution, fulfilment and transportation to move products from factories to customers faster than ever before, reducing shipping times and saving sellers time, effort and money’.
According to Amazon, sellers ‘simply provide product details and pick-up locations and Amazon oversees the rest, including carrier pickup, inventory consolidation, strategic replenishment and placement into fulfilment centres nearest to customers, and continuous analytically-driven optimisation based on demand, inventory levels and costs’.
The company notes that ‘hundreds of thousands of sellers already use at least one of these Supply Chain by Amazon services’, and claims that adoption of multiple services tripled in the first half of 2024.
Amazon moved more than 20,000 containers globally in August 2024 and offers domestic logistics services in 19 countries. In the US alone, Amazon says, US sellers have used its domestic logistics services to send 2 billion product units into Amazon’s fulfilment network in the past year.
It adds that in 2024, the company is expecting to triple its Amazon Warehousing and Distribution (AWD) capacity in the US in order to ‘support explosive growth in seller demand’.
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Steve Neufer, co-founder of Juvo+ – an Amazon seller that sells a wide range of consumer products – said: “Having Amazon partner with us on our end-to-end supply chain has been a game-changer that’s great for our business.
“The speed and reliability of its logistics services has enabled us to keep our products in stock with less working capital while delighting customers with lightning-fast deliveries.
“Customers react strongly to being able to get a product same day or next day, and we see our sales conversion roughly double.”
Following the undeniable success of IntraLogisteX 2024 in the UK, the exhibition is heading across the Atlantic next month, with IntraLogisteX USA taking place on 22-23 October 2024 at Miami Beach Convention Center.
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Plus, the Supply Chain Excellence Awards are also heading stateside as Miami welcomes the very first Supply Chain Excellence Awards USA on 21 October 2024.
For more information about the awards, categories and how to enter, click here!
