Most businesses would love to reduce supply chain costs while maintaining fast, dependable operations at scale. One of the most effective ways to save? Consolidating logistics support with a single provider, like Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS).
ASCS brings together the full strength of Amazon’s global logistics network for businesses, so you can move, store, and deliver goods with confidence. If you’re looking for a flexible, scalable logistics provider, ASCS offers access to a full range of services and solutions—freight, storage & distribution, fulfillment, and more—and the freedom to choose and pay for only those your business needs.
Streamlining a fragmented supply chain by consolidating services can result in meaningful savings in a number of areas—time, money, focus, to name a few—and position your business for long-term growth. Here are four reasons why.
1. Reduce provider complexity and operational overhead
Contracts and accompanying costs add up quickly when you work with multiple supply chain vendors, as each provider has its own rules, requirements, and fees. When you consolidate your logistics under a single partner, you’re reducing complexity and unnecessary fees across the supply chain: fewer contracts, handoffs, relationships to manage, and individual costs per partner.
Outsourcing your logistics to a single provider can help growing businesses run more efficiently and also lower in-house costs. When ASCS manages your supply chain, you’ll:
- Decrease time spent managing vendor relationships: Consolidating with ASCS means fewer accounts to manage, and less time spent navigating the requirements of multiple providers. By outsourcing the operational burdens associated with executing logistics tasks, you’ll create a more efficient business with time back in the day for other priorities.
- Spend less on hiring, training, and overseeing staff dedicated to navigating complex supply chain needs: Instead, your logistics will be managed by industry experts who’ve already put in decades of work to execute a smooth, efficient supply chain backed by advanced technology. In short: Amazon manages complexity so you can get back to managing your business.
- Do more with less: ASCS enables businesses to move forward without added capital expenditure, instead tapping into Amazon’s established network to increase efficiency and reduce operational headaches and hidden costs. Take ACTIVE®, an ASCS customer utilizing Amazon’s end-to-end logistics capabilities to inbound product overseas, store it in our network, and fulfill orders across sales channels, both Amazon and elsewhere. Bringing these separate pieces of the supply chain puzzle under a single provider enabled ACTIVE® to double its YoY revenue in 2025—without adding headcount to its internal operations team.
2. Leverage built-in technology and logistics innovation
Amazon has invested billions in its logistics network and built a global operation that delivers more than 13 billion items annually. Those investments formed, fueled, and future-proofed ASCS to absorb shocks and reroute in real time, continuously optimizing with technology that factors in speed, reliability, cost, environmental impact, and customer experience.
How does this benefit your business? By tapping into Amazon’s supply chain network and technology, you’ll:
- Benefit from an advanced, tech-forward network from first mile to last: Amazon uses technology to optimize supply chain at every turn. From advanced algorithms ensuring the safest, most efficient freight and delivery routes to fulfillment centers powered by advanced AI and a fleet of more than one million robots ensuring a fast, reliable order fulfillment experience, your inventory’s journey from factory floor to customer door is powered by performance technology—even during high-volume shopping seasons. Slower systems, lack of visibility, and manual, inaccurate forecasting often lead to reactive or last-minute decisions, big contributors to unforeseen—and unwanted—costs for your business.
- Manage inventory cost-effectively: With more than 200 fulfillment centers strategically positioned across the US, your stock will be dynamically positioned based on customer demand and shorter delivery distances, plus the ability to easily expand into new markets without additional investment.
- Seamlessly connect to your existing systems: Amazon prioritizes integrating with key partners and channels, so you don’t have to, creating seamless connections to a business’ existing systems and applications for greater efficiency and shorter time to market.
- Reduce the likelihood of returns and customer complaints: With more than 100,000 trailers, intermodal containers, and aircraft, you can count on Amazon’s range of shipment modes and capacity options to move your product with reliability across the supply chain. Plus, ASCS ships seven days a week, offers real-time tracking, and is equipped to handle cross-border shipping, time-sensitive products, and support for temperature-controlled and specialized cargo. Bringing these separate inventory needs under one provider cuts through carrier complexity and allows for more reliable, consistent deliveries every time, not just sometimes. That kind of consistency makes for happier customers and repeat purchases, adding greater value—and revenue—to your brand.
3. Consolidate pools of inventory for added efficiency and happier customers
Just as fragmented service providers add complexity and financial risk to supply chain, the same goes for splitting inventory into separate pools to serve different sales channels. By engaging ASCS, you can consolidate inventory across all channels into a single pool. That can result in:
- Fewer missed sales opportunities: You can utilize stock already in the Amazon network to open, test, scale, and manage new channels—or fuel new growth in existing ones. By consolidating inventory into a single pool, you’re also less likely to experience stockouts and missed sales opportunities, as ASCS will automatically replenish stock when supply is below anticipated demand.
- Reduced fulfillment overhead: Beverage brand Poppi lowered its labor and freight costs when it consolidated fulfillment services under Amazon, realizing a 30% savings per order in just seven months.
- Lower storage costs than traditional 3PLs: Most third-party logistics (3PL) providers charge storage fees—the longer your stock sits in a warehouse, the more fees it’ll accrue. When you consolidate your inventory into a single pool with ASCS, stock is stored strategically across Amazon’s network to be close to your customer base and will be shipped quickly once sold. In fact, sellers who fulfilled orders in the United States using both Multichannel Fulfillment (MCF) and Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) services, on average, improved inventory turnover by 12%.1
1Based on trailing twelve-month data from 590,000 sellers who shipped more than 100 units with FBA throughout 2023, comparing performance between sellers using both MCF and FBA versus those using FBA only.
4. Scale—and save—all at once
Expanding into new markets and channels doesn’t have to mean rebuilding your supply chain or adding new vendors. With ASCS, you can choose to add on more services as your business grows, knowing for every logistics need you may have, there’s an ASCS service for it.
ASCS services are designed to work together to reduce handoffs. So, when your business is ready to scale, you can augment your existing logistics package with confidence that your stock is well-managed as part of a streamlined, efficient supply chain. Amazon’s immense physical network and broad geographic coverage also mean we’re already showing up nearly everywhere, helping you reach more customers in more places with ease—and without upfront investments of your own—whenever you look to expand.
Cost savings and reliable logistics don’t have to be a tradeoff for supply chain management. With ASCS, you can access Amazon’s global logistics network—designed to simplify, support growth across channels, and reduce the overhead and time spent managing multiple providers.
