Amazon, FedEx, and Amazon’s Delivery Service Partners

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