Amazon Fulfillment Web Service

Posted on March 20, 2008
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This and this are good to see from Amazon.  My team built the same thing back in 2000, but e-commerce collapsed and took the company out with it. Amazon has done a nice job presenting their fulfillment as a service offering.  More discussion here.

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2 Responses to “Amazon Fulfillment Web Service”

  1. order fulfillment on March 20th, 2008 11:49 pm

    Hello Alex,

    I’m Nate and I’m with Shipwire. What company were you with in 2000 when you built this?

    I wanted to add that amazon isn’t the only company out there doing this.
    http://www.shipwire.com

    Our API’s have been exposed for a while.

    Free Trial. Try us out. No credit card needed to connect and try the warehouse.

    http://www.shipwire.com/trial

    We allow merchants to ship from many warehouses for faster delivery and much lower shipping prices. We have a widget at Shipwire.com/pricing that shows how this works. Hover over the orange Tag at “DHL”. Input your current ship from location and see how much you would save. Then see if you get 1-2 day delivery for the price of ground if you use the full warehouse network.

    We build the free trial to be used, so please do try it.

    cheers,

    Nate

  2. alex on March 21st, 2008 8:15 am

    The company started out as Shipper.com and later became Sameday.com. Our target was to provide 80% next day ground coverage and 30-40% same day delivery coverage.

    We built a network of warehouses around the country with a multi-client/multi-location order management layer above that that provided availability information, order routing based on geographic optimization, split order management, shipment data, and I’m sure a bunch of other stuff through our API. We were doing web services, before they were give a name.

    After e commerce crashed, we turned it into a time critical spare parts network - but by then the valuation had tanked. Sold the network to Ryder.

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