Amazon is building a proprietary delivery network by increasing the number of drivers to speed up delivery

BySounderBruce

Deliver the item at the explosive speed within one hourPrime NowAlthough Amazon is expanding delivery service, Amazon has secretly invited drivers to start new services in order to speed up normal service delivery as well as services for pay Prime members Has become clear.

Exclusive: Amazon expanding deliveries by its 'on-demand' drivers | Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-logistics-flex-idUSKCN0VR00O


Increasing Amazon's delivery driver is not officially announced by Amazon, but Amazon's delivery of goods on a personal basisAmazon Flex"The invitation mail of a new delivery system has been sent to the contract driver of. Individual drivers who are registered with Amazon Flex are shipping items for paying members 'Prime Now' in 14 cities such as Seattle, Las Vegas, Phoenix and Dallas but in the new delivery service Prime Now's He said that he will undertake ordinary goods as well as delivery. According to Amazon spokesperson, drivers who are responsible for shipping Amazon Flex in Texas have already delivered not only to Prime members but also regular delivery. Although details are not announced about the increase of the driver, Amazon says "We are planning to find a dealer or driver in charge of delivery while looking for a new way to deliver the item quickly to the user."

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The delivery cost of Amazon has reached 11.5 billion dollars (about 1. 2 trillion 295 billion yen) in 2015, and it has increased by 18% compared with 2014 of the previous year. If a new system that entrusts Amazon's ordinary delivery to individuals gets on track, Amazon is expected to significantly reduce shipping costs. In addition, in the latest revenue announcement of Amazon, "Official statement has been issued that" I am not planning to cancel a contract with a shipping company that is currently affiliated and I am considering a way to make more delivery at the peak delivery time " I will.

A driver under contract for Amazon Flex in northern Texas said according to Reuters' interview that Amazon received e-mail from January 2016 and was invited to Amazon's new delivery program. However, for individual drivers, Prime Now's delivery of goods and ordinary goods delivery seems to be very different. Although Prime Now is a service that handles only tens of thousands of items handled by Amazon, when personal drivers are responsible for ordinary delivery, because it is targeted at more than 200 billion types of products handled by Amazon, urban areas It is not necessarily a small logistics warehouse, but it seems necessary to go to a huge warehouse in the suburbs to pick up luggage. In addition, drivers who became responsible for delivering new services can not continue delivery of conventional Prime Now, specialize in delivering new services for a while, delivering Prime Now and delivery of new services from the second half of 2016 It is said that it will be able to do.

The requirement for drivers in charge of Amazon Flex is to have a 4-door sedan car. Working hours are 7 days a week from 8 am to 6 pm, and hourly wage is about 18 dollars to 25 dollars. Petrol for transportation and vehicle insurance must be paid by the driver himself.


It seems that it is about 35% of the physical distribution cost at the stage of carrying from the distribution center to the user's home, which is the most costly in the process of delivering the product to the user by the online shopping service. In addition to improving the delivery speed of ordinary delivery items, Amazon seems to aim to reduce logistics costs of tens of billions of dollars by increasing contracts with personal drivers.

The aim is to compete with companies such as United Parcel Service, FedEx, Alibaba, and Amazon that Amazon now outsources delivery, by Amazon outsourcing to individual drivers and building their own logistics route. It is also reported that there is.

Amazon Building Global Delivery Business to Take On Alibaba - Bloomberg Business
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