Ep 160: Amazon, FedEx, and Amazon's Delivery Service Partners

Jun 17, 2019

Dean Maciuba, Director of Consulting Services at Logistics Trends & Insights, analyses FedEx Express’s decision to dump Amazon:

• The factors behind FedEx’s decision
• Bad blood between FedEx and Amazon
• What does one-day Prime have to do it?
• Peak season volumes
• Is Amazon a true competitor in the last mile?
• FedEx Ground and Amazon going forward
• FedEx capacity concerns and network renewal

Then we get on to the topic of Amazon’s Delivery Service Partners (DSPs):

• Incentives available to prospective DSPs
• Amazon moving into mid-sized markets - concerns about density
• Is Amazon finding it difficult sourcing DSPs?
• Structure of DSPs (including size of fleets), and how it compares to the FedEx Ground model
• Profitability for DSPs
• Training and driver efficiency
• Amazon and B2B e-commerce (including healthcare and technology)
• DSP vehicles
• How DSPs will impact on US Postal Service volumes
• The fate of Amazon’s original DSPs