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Amazon opens up its global logistics network to all businesses
In Brief Posted: 7:13 AM PDT · May 4, 2026 Image Credits:Matthias Balk/picture alliance / Getty Images Amazon is opening its global logistics network to all businesses, the company announced on Monday. The new service, called Amazon Supply Chain Services, pits the e-commerce giant directly against UPS and FedEx. The service opens Amazon’s freight, distribution, fulfillment, and parcel shipping capabilities to businesses of all types and sizes. The company says the service will support businesses in industries such as healthcare, automotive, manufacturing, and retail. With this launch, Amazon is creating a new growth avenue in its e-commerce division by turning a service long used by thousands of independent third-party sellers into a broader offering for any business. “Amazon is bringing the infrastructure, intelligence, and scale of its supply chain services—proven over decades—to businesses everywhere, much like Amazon Web Services did for cloud computing,” said Peter Larsen, vice president of Amazon Supply Chain Services, in a blog post. Amazon says Proctor & Gamble, 3M, Lands’ End, and American Eagle Outfitters have already signed up for the supply chain service. Topics Subscribe for the industry’s biggest tech news Latest in Enterprise
Amazon Opens Up Its Logistics Networks To Any Business
Amazon After reducing its dependency on the US Postal Service and other carriers, Amazon is opening up its own logistics and delivery services to other businesses. "Today, Amazon is announcing Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS), opening its full portfolio of freight, distribution, fulfillment, and parcel shipping capabilities to businesses of all types and sizes, not only Amazon sellers," the company wrote in a press release. Amazon is launching the new service with a few major businesses including Procter & Gamble, 3M, Lands' End and American Eagle Outfitters Inc. For 3M and P&G, Amazon's freight services will ship products from manufacturing sites to distribution networks, and fulfill orders directly to customers for Lands' End and American Eagle. Much like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon built its logistics service for internal use but now plans to sell it to other companies across industries including healthcare, automotive, manufacturing and retail. Amazon noted that its supply chain was never just a function but a "differentiator" to its core shopping experience, "the reason we could offer fast, dependable delivery that nobody else could." Amazon's supply chain is comprehensive with warehouses, planes, trucks and delivery vehicles around the world. It has become America's largest parcel carrier by volume, according to ShipMatrix. In addition, the retail giant has been selling its fulfillment services to companies that list goods on its retail marketplace for over 20 years. That has made it the world's largest third-party logistics company, so expanding that service to other businesses shouldn't be a big stretch. The move will, of course, pit Amazon against many of its key logistics suppliers including the USPS, DHL Group and others. Third-party logistics services are a huge part of the global economy estimated at more than $1.3 trillion representing "a very large opportunity," Amazon's ASCS VP Peter Larsen told The Wall Street Journal. Given Amazon's scale, the new service could disrupt the entire industry, including the US Postal Service that's already on very shaky financial ground.
Amazon Launches Amazon Supply Chain Services, Opening Its Logistics ...
About Amazon Supply Chain Services Amazon Supply Chain Services gives businesses of all types and sizes access to the freight, distribution, fulfillment, and parcel shipping capabilities Amazon has built, refined, and proven at scale over decades—supporting Amazon sellers and other businesses, regardless of where they sell.
Amazon extends its supply chain services network to all businesses and ...
Amazon decided long ago—2013 to be exact—that it doesn't have to be this way, and after forming, fueling, and refining its own network with breadth, depth, and next-level technology, they're opening it up to all businesses and sales channels.
