Amazon is trying to shift its massive shipping operation to another AWS

Amazon may soon have a role in delivering all sorts of things to your door, as its massive shipping network opens up to other companies outside its market, competing directly with giants like DHL, UPS and FedEx. the Amazon’s new supply chain services ASCS will provide shipping, distribution, fulfillment and parcel shipping services to companies “of all types and sizes,” including Protcor & Gamble, 3M, Lands’ End and American Eagle Outfitters.

With ASCS, Amazon is betting that other companies will pay to use its sprawling network — just as it pays to use the web infrastructure, which the e-commerce giant provides. The offer has begun to external companies In 2006. Amazon has spent years building fulfillment network for its deliveries, reducing its dependence on it US Postal ServiceAnd FedEx and UPS. In 2023, Amazon launched a new product Supply chain serviceThis allows other companies to use Amazon to ship products directly from factories.

The new service expands on this space, giving companies in the automotive, healthcare, electronics, apparel and food sectors the ability to ship their products through Amazon’s delivery network. Businesses using Amazon’s supply chain services will be able to store their inventory at Amazon’s fulfillment centers around the world, leveraging its fleet of trucks, planes and delivery vehicles.

“With the launch of ASCS, we are confident that we can give no other company access to the same cost efficiency, reliability and speed that we have built for Amazon customers,” Peter Larsen, vice president of ASCS, says in the press release.