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The Amazonification of Logistics

Techgistics

Third-party sellers simply ship their inventory to Amazon, which then manages the entire back-end fulfillment of an item once it’s purchased. In 2016, third-party sellers accounted for approximately 50% of Amazon’s unit sales and are also Amazon’s second largest source of revenue - $23 billion in 2016 a 43% gain on 2015.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Revenue data is sourced from the companies’ websites and market research platforms such as Macrotrends. The company was started in 1907 as a small messenger service in Seattle with $100 in borrowed capital. started as a single office ocean forwarder in Seattle. Revenue: $8.7 Expeditors International of Washington Inc.