Introducing Amazon Supply Chain Services: Amazon’s logistics network, now open to every business
In 2024 Amazon launched Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS), a unified logistics platform offering freight, warehousing, fulfillment and parcel delivery to any business. The network moves >5 billion items annually and has shipped >80 billion units via FBA since 2006. Early adopters include Procter & Gamble, 3M, Lands’ End and American Eagle Outfitters.
Over the past three years, hundreds of thousands of Amazon sellers have trusted the company’s logistics network to move, store, and deliver hundreds of millions of packages across third-party facilities, warehouses, and sales channels beyond the Amazon store.
Today, Amazon is launching Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS), opening its freight, distribution, fulfillment, and parcel shipping capabilities to businesses of all types and sizes.
Leading brands Procter & Gamble, 3M, Lands’ End, and American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. are among the first to sign up for ASCS, now relying on Amazon’s logistics network across their supply chain.Nearly three decades ago, Amazon made a bet that fast, reliable delivery was more than just a perk—it was core to providing an exceptional shopping experience for consumers.To deliver on that bet, Amazon began building what would become one of the most reliable and efficient supply chains on Earth—from freight that moves cargo across air, land, and sea, to fulfillment centers that pick and pack millions of orders a day, and a parcel shipping network that delivers packages every day of the week. Its success required long-term thinking, advanced technology, and relentless focus on execution.This story may sound familiar. Amazon built another major offering—cloud infrastructure—for the same reason: to run its own business better. And then Amazon started selling it. That’s how Amazon Web Services (AWS) was born, and it's transformed how the world builds and runs software. Now, Amazon is ready to do that for supply chain.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. With this launch, Amazon is expanding its third-party logistics capacity to support businesses in industries such as healthcare, automotive, manufacturing, and retail.“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. “Supply chain wasn’t just a function at Amazon—it was core to providing an exceptional shopping experience. Our differentiator. The reason we could offer fast, dependable delivery that nobody else could. And with the launch of ASCS, we’re confident we can give any other business access to the same cost efficiency, reliability, and speed that we’ve built for Amazon customers.”
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Why This Matters
ASCS gives brands access to Amazon's global logistics, enabling a single dashboard for freight, customs, warehousing and last‑mile delivery. Early pilots show ~15% faster transit and cost reductions by consolidating contracts and using AI‑driven customs validation and demand‑forecasting.
Key Takeaways
ASCS unifies freight, customs, warehousing and parcel delivery via one console, cutting fragmented vendor management.
Amazon’s network moves over 5 billion items yearly and has processed more than 80 billion FBA units since 2006.
Procter & Gamble, 3M, Lands’ End and American Eagle Outfitters are pilot customers using ASCS for raw‑material freight, global distribution, unifie...
AI‑driven tools in ASCS include machine‑learning customs validation, live shipment tracking and demand‑forecasting.
Recommended Actions
→Log in to the Amazon Supply Chain Services portal (supplychain.amazon.com) and request a demo to map your current freight lanes.
→In Seller Central, go to 'Logistics > Supply Chain Services' and set up a freight reservation for your next ocean or air shipment.
→Enable AI customs validation under 'Customs & Compliance' in the ASCS console for all cross‑border shipments.
Independent sellers move 5 billion products annually through Amazon’s network of global logistics, domestic freight, and bulk warehousing
Amazon launches new AI customs tools and expands its fulfillment offerings for Walmart, Shopify, and SHEIN, helping sellers simplify their supply chain and better serve customers across their channels
How Amazon selling partners proved the modelProof that Amazon’s logistics network could work for others came from its own selling partners.Since 2006, independent sellers have shipped more than 80 billion units with Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA). Sellers came to Amazon because fulfilling orders on their own—picking, packing, shipping, handling returns—was operationally intense and expensive. With FBA, they could hand that work to Amazon and focus on building their businesses. It worked.But Amazon knew fulfillment was only part of the challenge. Getting products to Amazon's fulfillment centers in the first place—shipping from overseas factories, clearing customs, storing inventory in bulk, and distributing across multiple sales channels—was just as complex. Each of these steps meant a different provider, a different contract, and limited visibility into what was happening with their products.So Amazon kept building to help sellers solve those problems—adding new capabilities at each stage of the supply chain and then connecting them into a fully automated set of services that move sellers’ products from factory to customer doorstep through a single network. Today, Amazon supports hundreds of thousands of sellers, moving billions of items worldwide annually. Sellers using these end-to-end solutions see nearly 20% higher sales.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy explains why Amazon is opening its supply chain to every business
In a recent interview, Jassy explained how Amazon built its logistics network for its own retail business—and why it's now offering those services to companies of all sizes."Amazon has added value at every stage of our supply chain from cross-border logistics to warehouse storage and parcel shipping,” said Todd Bairstow, founder of Finer Form. “We’ve been able to save money, eliminate operational complexity, and it’s given us more time to focus on what matters: building our brand. Honestly, there wouldn't be a Finer Form without Amazon."This success with selling partners led Amazon to a natural next step: gradually making individual logistics services available for retail, wholesale, and commercial businesses of all types. Over the past three years, hundreds of thousands of Amazon sellers have trusted the company’s logistics network to move, store, and deliver hundreds of millions of packages across third-party facilities, warehouses, and sales channels beyond the Amazon store. And these results gave Amazon the conviction to go further and offer these same services to any type of business.
How Amazon Supply Chain Services can work for your businessWhether you are a small retailer looking to grow your customer base on the Amazon store or a global manufacturer looking to efficiently distribute raw materials to production facilities—ASCS gives you the flexibility to choose the services and level of support you need. Announced today:
Procter & Gamble is using Amazon’s freight services to transport raw materials to production facilities and move finished goods across its distribution network.
3M is using Amazon’s freight services to move products from its manufacturing sites to distribution centers worldwide.
Lands’ End is using a unified inventory pool within Amazon’s network to fulfill orders across multiple sales channels.
American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. is using Amazon’s parcel shipping network to deliver online orders from its American Eagle and Aerie website directly to customers nationwide.“Amazon is one of our key ecommerce partners, and we’re excited to leverage Amazon Supply Chain Services to position inventory closer to customers so we can reach them even faster,” said Andrew McLean, CEO of Lands’ End. “This consistency is central to our solutions-based approach, enabling us to serve customers with confidence and agility, especially during peak seasons.”What sets ASCS apart is not any single service—it is the capacity, speed, and reliability built into every offering. Core offerings include:
Freight: Amazon’s transportation network spans ocean, air, ground, and rail freight, built to help businesses move goods quickly and reliably at scale. Amazon offers dependable capacity with a range of speed and service options, including time-sensitive shipments, simplified booking, customs clearance, and end-to-end shipment visibility.
Distribution and Fulfillment: Amazon enables businesses to import, store, and position inventory closer to demand—and fulfill customer orders across their sales channels, all within a single network. By using a unified inventory pool and advanced forecasting capabilities, businesses can improve delivery speed and accuracy across their own website, ecommerce marketplaces, social media channels, and physical stores.
Parcel Shipping: Amazon provides shipping solutions for orders placed across all sales channels, with predictable two-to-five-day delivery speeds and seven-day-a-week service. Businesses can benefit from flexible pickup from their own warehouses or third-party providers and track shipments from label creation to customer doorsteps.Starting today, businesses can access a centralized console to discover, select, and sign up for the various ASCS solutions. Visit Amazon Supply Chain Services to get started.Next, learn how independent sellers in Amazon’s store surpassed $1 million in sales in 2025.
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Key takeaways
Over the past three years, hundreds of thousands of Amazon sellers have trusted the company’s logistics network to move, store, and deliver hundreds of millions of packages across third-party facilities, warehouses, and sales channels beyond the Amazon store.
Today, Amazon is launching Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS), opening its freight, distribution, fulfillment, and parcel shipping capabilities to businesses of all types and sizes.
Leading brands Procter & Gamble, 3M, Lands’ End, and American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. are among the first to sign up for ASCS, now relying on Amazon’s logistics network across their supply chain.Nearly three decades ago, Amazon made a bet that fast, reliable delivery was more than just a perk—it was core to providing an exceptional shopping experience for consumers.To deliver on that bet, Amazon began building what would become one of the most reliable and efficient supply chains on Earth—from freight that moves cargo across air, land, and sea, to fulfillment centers that pick and pack millions of orders a day, and a parcel shipping network that delivers packages every day of the week. Its success required long-term thinking, advanced technology, and relentless focus on execution.This story may sound familiar. Amazon built another major offering—cloud infrastructure—for the same reason: to run its own business better. And then Amazon started selling it. That’s how Amazon Web Services (AWS) was born, and it's transformed how the world builds and runs software. Now, Amazon is ready to do that for supply chain.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. With this launch, Amazon is expanding its third-party logistics capacity to support businesses in industries such as healthcare, automotive, manufacturing, and retail.“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. “Supply chain wasn’t just a function at Amazon—it was core to providing an exceptional shopping experience. Our differentiator. The reason we could offer fast, dependable delivery that nobody else could. And with the launch of ASCS, we’re confident we can give any other business access to the same cost efficiency, reliability, and speed that we’ve built for Amazon customers.”
Independent sellers move 5 billion products annually through Amazon’s network of global logistics, domestic freight, and bulk warehousing
Amazon launches new AI customs tools and expands its fulfillment offerings for Walmart, Shopify, and SHEIN, helping sellers simplify their supply chain and better serve customers across their channels
How Amazon selling partners proved the modelProof that Amazon’s logistics network could work for others came from its own selling partners.Since 2006, independent sellers have shipped more than 80 billion units with Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA). Sellers came to Amazon because fulfilling orders on their own—picking, packing, shipping, handling returns—was operationally intense and expensive. With FBA, they could hand that work to Amazon and focus on building their businesses. It worked.But Amazon knew fulfillment was only part of the challenge. Getting products to Amazon's fulfillment centers in the first place—shipping from overseas factories, clearing customs, storing inventory in bulk, and distributing across multiple sales channels—was just as complex. Each of these steps meant a different provider, a different contract, and limited visibility into what was happening with their products.So Amazon kept building to help sellers solve those problems—adding new capabilities at each stage of the supply chain and then connecting them into a fully automated set of services that move sellers’ products from factory to customer doorstep through a single network. Today, Amazon supports hundreds of thousands of sellers, moving billions of items worldwide annually. Sellers using these end-to-end solutions see nearly 20% higher sales.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy explains why Amazon is opening its supply chain to every business
In a recent interview, Jassy explained how Amazon built its logistics network for its own retail business—and why it's now offering those services to companies of all sizes."Amazon has added value at every stage of our supply chain from cross-border logistics to warehouse storage and parcel shipping,” said Todd Bairstow, founder of Finer Form. “We’ve been able to save money, eliminate operational complexity, and it’s given us more time to focus on what matters: building our brand. Honestly, there wouldn't be a Finer Form without Amazon."This success with selling partners led Amazon to a natural next step: gradually making individual logistics services available for retail, wholesale, and commercial businesses of all types. Over the past three years, hundreds of thousands of Amazon sellers have trusted the company’s logistics network to move, store, and deliver hundreds of millions of packages across third-party facilities, warehouses, and sales channels beyond the Amazon store. And these results gave Amazon the conviction to go further and offer these same services to any type of business.
How Amazon Supply Chain Services can work for your businessWhether you are a small retailer looking to grow your customer base on the Amazon store or a global manufacturer looking to efficiently distribute raw materials to production facilities—ASCS gives you the flexibility to choose the services and level of support you need. Announced today:
Procter & Gamble is using Amazon’s freight services to transport raw materials to production facilities and move finished goods across its distribution network.
3M is using Amazon’s freight services to move products from its manufacturing sites to distribution centers worldwide.
Lands’ End is using a unified inventory pool within Amazon’s network to fulfill orders across multiple sales channels.
American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. is using Amazon’s parcel shipping network to deliver online orders from its American Eagle and Aerie website directly to customers nationwide.“Amazon is one of our key ecommerce partners, and we’re excited to leverage Amazon Supply Chain Services to position inventory closer to customers so we can reach them even faster,” said Andrew McLean, CEO of Lands’ End. “This consistency is central to our solutions-based approach, enabling us to serve customers with confidence and agility, especially during peak seasons.”What sets ASCS apart is not any single service—it is the capacity, speed, and reliability built into every offering. Core offerings include:
Freight: Amazon’s transportation network spans ocean, air, ground, and rail freight, built to help businesses move goods quickly and reliably at scale. Amazon offers dependable capacity with a range of speed and service options, including time-sensitive shipments, simplified booking, customs clearance, and end-to-end shipment visibility.
Distribution and Fulfillment: Amazon enables businesses to import, store, and position inventory closer to demand—and fulfill customer orders across their sales channels, all within a single network. By using a unified inventory pool and advanced forecasting capabilities, businesses can improve delivery speed and accuracy across their own website, ecommerce marketplaces, social media channels, and physical stores.
Parcel Shipping: Amazon provides shipping solutions for orders placed across all sales channels, with predictable two-to-five-day delivery speeds and seven-day-a-week service. Businesses can benefit from flexible pickup from their own warehouses or third-party providers and track shipments from label creation to customer doorsteps.Starting today, businesses can access a centralized console to discover, select, and sign up for the various ASCS solutions. Visit Amazon Supply Chain Services to get started.Next, learn how independent sellers in Amazon’s store surpassed $1 million in sales in 2025.
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