Amazon opens its global logistics network to all companies

Amazon opens its global logistics network to all of the company’s subsidiaries Announce on monday. The new service, called Amazon Supply Chain Services, pits the e-commerce giant directly against UPS and FedEx.

The service opens up Amazon’s shipping, distribution, fulfillment and package shipping capabilities to businesses of all types and sizes. The company says the service will support companies in industries such as healthcare, automotive, manufacturing and retail.

With this launch, Amazon is creating a new avenue of growth for its e-commerce division by transforming the service long used by thousands of independent third-party sellers into a broader offering for any business.

“Amazon brings the infrastructure, information, and scale of its decades-proven supply chain services to businesses everywhere, just as Amazon Web Services did for the cloud,” said Peter Larsen, vice president of Supply Chain Services at Amazon. Blog post.

Amazon says Proctor & Gamble, 3M, Lands’ End and American Eagle Outfitters have already signed up for the supply chain service.