Amazon rebrands third-party logistics arms as unified supply chain service

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Eric Kulisch

Mon, May 4, 2026 astatine 11:56 AM CDT 5 min read

Amazon connected Monday invited third-party businesses to entree the afloat suite of logistics services it uses internally to enactment e-commerce orders connected its platform, officially packaging the discrete shipping and transportation services it has been offering for years nether the umbrella marque of Amazon Supply Chain Services.

The announcement fundamentally declared that third-party logistics services is present a main concern line, on with retail, unreality computing services and grocery.

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) said it is extending its portfolio of freight, distribution, fulfillment and parcel shipping services to each businesses, efficaciously making disposable the excess capableness successful its web to outsiders. Companies crossed industries from automotive, to healthcare and retail volition beryllium capable to vessel thing from earthy materials to finished goods.

Analysts said Amazon would request to put successful overmuch much infrastructure to straight vie crossed the committee with ample water freight wholesalers, freight forwarders and trucking companies, but that integrated logistics providers similar FedEx and UPS could beryllium nether threat.

Amazon this decennary has been evolving into an integrated freight and logistics provider, externalizing assorted parts of its logistics cognition and offering wholesale capableness to shippers.

Fulfillment by Amazon allows tiny merchants selling connected Amazon’s level to usage Amazon for inventory management, fulfillment and last-mile delivery. In aboriginal 2023, Amazon opened eligibility for Buy with Prime to each e-commerce merchants, alternatively of by invitation only. The programme allows online sellers, including those that bash not merchantability connected the company’s website, to connection Prime fulfillment services done their ain online stores. Also successful 2023, Amazon rolled retired a stand-alone shipping work nether which the retail-tech elephantine uses its autarkic drivers to supply pickups astatine warehouses and grip the shipments to last delivery

In 2024, Amazon launched Amazon Air Cargo, allowing shippers to bargain abstraction connected its backstage cargo airline. Supply Chain by Amazon, for example, leverages the company’s presumption arsenic a bulk purchaser of water freight capacity. As an water consolidator for cargo from Asia to the United States, Amazon is liable for picking up inventory from manufacturing facilities worldwide, booking the shipment with an water carrier, handling customs clearance and crushed transportation, managing inventory replenishment, and delivering to its warehouse.

Amazon connected Monday said the debut of Amazon Supply Chain Services builds connected the momentum from transporting, storing and delivering hundreds of millions of packages for extracurricular shippers implicit the past 3 years.

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