The distribution network of Amazon and the footprint of freight digitalization
The emergence of e-commerce as a dominant retail paradigm is associated with a rapid shift in the commercial footprint towards distributional-based consumption. Through the analysis of the geographical expansion, market coverage, and functional specialization of Amazon's distribution network, the research underlines that digitalization has a pronounced physicality. E-commerce is favoring a transition from the conventional retail freight landscape towards a new physicality of freight distributions involving purpose-designed facilities, modes, and channels. The case of Amazon underlines a consistent locational behavior to achieve a distributional hierarchy of facilities granting logistical access to consumer markets. The distributional hierarchy is organized in three stages, which are procurement and fulfillment, distribution, and last-mile.
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- © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
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Authors:
- Rodrigue, Jean-Paul
- Publication Date: 2020-10
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References;
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Serial:
- Journal of Transport Geography
- Volume: 88
- Issue Number: 0
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 0966-6923
- Serial URL: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jtrangeo
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Electronic commerce; Freight transportation; Logistics; Networks; Physical distribution; Real estate development; Retail trade; Warehousing
- Identifier Terms: Amazon.com
- Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01752671
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Sep 22 2020 2:29PM