Picking apart the DHL-Evri UK e-commerce deal
It’s all about scale
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While talk of Amazon’s growing logistics capabilities has centred on the threat to its principal logistics service providers, UPS and FedEx, a new report from Armstrong & Armstrong suggests it is the 3PL sector that should be most concerned by the e-commerce giant’s increasing reach.
“If Amazon does choose to try to become a major parcel player, it would be embarking on that endeavour even as UPS and FedEx invest massive figures in their own technology, automation, facilities, assets and capacities,” ...
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Anindo Chakraborty
February 04, 2019 at 7:47 amShippers like UPS, FedEx are at certain disadvantage when it comes competition with Amazon as they are established players and someone as big as Amazon(with loads of cash) is right at their doorstep. But surely there are other openings for UPS, FedEx which can bring them a semblance of hope. For example, partnering with third party companies like StorePep, StarShipIT, GoShippo is certainly an option as they would be able to provide a one-stop solution to store owners which would make it easy to take orders and ship them with ease along with real time tracking. With StorePep’s real time feature, the customer gets real time status updates for every checkpoint at which the shipment has reached. Hence I think, collaboration is the way for companies like UPS, FedEx if they are thinking of thwarting competition with someone like Amazon.