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Contents. Introduction. The Founder. Role of Distribution & Warehousing.

Amazon.com, Inc. focuses on international e-commerce. Seattle, Washington, serves as its corporate headquarters. It is the biggest and most well-known online retailer in the entire world. Amazon.com started off as a website that sold books, but it quickly grew to sell DVDs, VHS tapes, CDs, videos, MP3 downloads and streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, jewellery, and more. The company, in addition to being a prominent provider of cloud computing services, also produces consumer electronics, most notably the Kindle Fire tablet and the Amazon Kindle e-book reader (Christy-Leung, 2023)..

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According to Sellercloud (2022) in order to prevent retailers from running out of both inventory and storage space, Amazon offers a third-party logistics (3PL) solution called Amazon Warehousing & Distribution (AWD). AWD incorporates upstream inventory ordering and storage. AWD enables the consolidation of worldwide inventory. Upstream Inventory Integration ( Sellercloud , 2022)..

Amazon’s success is partly credited to its skilled warehousing strategy, which guarantees that products are easily accessible from almost anywhere in the world. No matter what is being purchased, there are even small warehouses in smaller towns to ensure that goods can be handled and delivered quickly. Internal warehouse optimization. A large portion of the land under Amazon's management is warehouse space. Amazon doesn't take a conventional approach to warehouse management. One controversial choice made by Amazon was to categorize its distribution network's facilities into 5 different categories. Cross -dock Centres Fulfilment Centres Sortation Centres Delivery Stations Amazon Prime Now Hub (Professors Ana Póvoa and Mafalda Carvalho, 2021)..

Technology. Amazon uses automated and robotic solutions for all fulfilment stages. This approach reduces delivery time, as well as storage and costs. Six warehouse robots are used by Amazon to improve its fulfilment procedures..

Technology. From Kiva to fully autonomous mobile robots and other robots in between ..

Trends & Challenges. Amazon has invested years in creating its logistics network in order to ship goods as swiftly and affordably as possible throughout the world. A few years ago, the focus was mostly on the Whole Foods distribution centers and their huge regional e-commerce distribution centers (Banker, 2021). The Covid epidemic has undoubtedly benefited Amazon's companies. However, not every warehouse employee has always enjoyed working there. (Banker, 2021). The fear of losing their employment due to extensive automation is one of the biggest concerns of warehouse workers. Most businesses, including Amazon, will claim that robots and cobots are made to make employees' jobs easier. To free up staff from tedious and time-consuming chores so they may concentrate on other projects, Amazon continues to invest in robots for its facilities (Banker, 2021)..

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