by Walther Ploos van Amstel
Amazon posted stronger-than-expected sales for the 2022 holiday shopping season. Net sales for Amazon, which has been battling cost-conscious consumers and higher costs, were $142.2bn in the last quarter of 2022, up 9 percent from 2021. Sales events during the holiday season offered glimmers of hope that Amazon’s retail business may be staging a recovery, …
Thousands of new electric vehicles will more than double the size of Amazon’s European zero-emission fleet—bringing it to at least 10,000 electric delivery vans and more than 1,500 electric heavy goods vehicles. Amazon today announced plans to invest more than €1 billion over the next five years to further electrify and decarbonize its transportation network …
Amazon is launching a fleet of e-cargo bikes and a team of on-foot delivery staff to replace thousands of van deliveries on London’s roads. With their fleet of electric delivery vans, Amazon will make more than five million zero-emission deliveries to customers yearly across more than 10% of London Ultra Low Emissions Zone. Various Amazon partner businesses will operate the …
Amazon and Stellantis will collaborate to deliver software solutions for Stellantis’ new digital cabin platform, STLA SmartCockpit, starting in 2024. Stellantis selects AWS as its preferred cloud provider for vehicle platforms to deliver its long-term, software-focused vision. AWS and Stellantis will launch collaborative engineering and innovation initiatives and tools to accelerate time to market for …
Amazon showed disappointing third-quarter results on fulfillment. The costs of fulfillment rose again, to now almost 31% of online sales. Year after year, these costs increase by one percentage point despite more sales. Growing volumes do not result in economy of scale at Amazon? Zalando is doing a better job. Zalando’s fulfillment costs are decreasing …
Finding the optimal route between multiple destinations (the traveling salesman problem) is a challenge regularly faced by Amazon’s Last Mile team. Meeting that challenge has meant developing planning software to allow Amazon’s delivery fleet to find the most efficient routes. But what happens when drivers must deviate from those routes? Drivers have access to real-time …
Amazon doubled down on its commitment to expand supply chain capacity on its latest earnings call. In 2020, Amazon’s capital expenditures were more than three times greater than those of Walmart. Retaildive reports about it. In 2020, Amazon upped its spending as it works to stand up more delivery stations and fulfillment centers. Amazon fulfillment …
ABB and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a collaboration to develop a cloud-based digital solution for the real-time fleet management of electric vehicles (EVs). The solution will optimize the efficient use of EVs and speed up the electrification of transport fleets, helping operators maintain 100 percent business continuity as they transition to fully electric.
As e-commerce volumes surge, contract-logistics companies face increasing complexity. How can they capture more value in a $ 600 billion opportunity? McKinsey looks at market opportunities. McKinsey projects that the total value of omnichannel distribution will continue to grow 7 percent every year, from $ 600 billion in 2019 to $ 840 billion by 2025.
Amazon drivers at some US facilities will soon have an extra set of eyes watching them when they hit the road to make their daily deliveries. Amazon has deployed the AI-equipped cameras in Amazon-branded cargo vans used by companies that are part of its delivery service partner program, which are largely responsible for last-mile deliveries. …