Amazon is bringing its air cargo operation together with its ground transportation and sort centre teams as part of a restructuring of its middle-mile logistics network.
Raoul Sreenivasan, who leads Amazon Air, said his role would expand to include the company’s wider “Middle Mile” organisation, Amazon Transportation Services.
The move will bring Amazon’s air and ground transportation operations under a single leadership structure, covering the movement of parcels between fulfilment centres and delivery stations.
Sreenivasan said the changes would create a more connected logistics network and enable faster operational decision-making and planning.
Amazon Air joins ground transport operations
Amazon’s middle-mile network covers the movement of packages after they leave fulfilment centres and before they reach delivery stations.
The network uses a combination of aircraft, trucks and sorting facilities to move shipments through Amazon’s logistics system.
By bringing Amazon Air together with its ground transportation and sort centre operations, the company aims to coordinate these different modes more closely.
Sreenivasan said the combined organisation would create a more seamless movement of packages across the network while improving planning and operational efficiency.
The restructuring also reflects the increasingly integrated nature of Amazon’s logistics operation, in which air freight plays a role alongside a large ground transportation network.
Leadership change follows Amazon Air development
Sreenivasan thanked Joanne Rzeppa for establishing the foundation for the organisation and praised her leadership and operational performance.
The leadership change comes as Amazon continues to develop its own logistics infrastructure to support its growing e-commerce operation.
Amazon Air operates a dedicated fleet of cargo aircraft and uses a network of air hubs and gateways to move packages around its distribution system.
Bringing the air operation into a broader middle-mile organisation could allow Amazon to coordinate aircraft capacity, trucking, sorting and fulfilment requirements more closely.
For the company’s air cargo network, the change places Amazon Air more directly within the wider transportation system responsible for moving goods between fulfilment centres and final-mile delivery operations.
Source: https://caasint.com/amazon-air-leadership-expands-as-middle-mile-operations-brought-under-one-network/
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