How Amazon Beat Supply Chain Chaos With Ships, Containers And Planes 

No it just proves that affordable and good quality things can be manufactured in America

Blame unions

@@iconsumedmt1350 no, America is plain expensive place to manufacture

Labor is way cheaper there. You want to work for a $1 a day?

Not quite the whole truth, because making goods in North America would also require the buying (or constructing, or even fundamental development from scratch) of factories and tooling machinery, as well as developing material supply chains, training a workforce, etc.

I am expecting that to happen after seeing this video. Amazon has changed how we consumers shop and buy items, they can change logistics systems as well.

Church

They may have already beat you to that punch........

And government. Expect USA to change to Universal Stores of Amazon.

I heard they had plans to use massive blimps as fulfillment centers and drones to ferry them off, not railroads or ports but still.

Amazon cuts the middle man out so they don't have to depend on nobody.

imagine if amazon actually paid their workers more than 15 an hour

@@charlesa3505 They have been… Since 2018.

Amazon is a case study in how you can actually take over the world one sector at a time. They started out relying exclusively on others for their shipping and over the years they have become a threat to those that they relied on in the past. What I found most surprising is that the main ports in the US where not 24/7 until recently. I had always just assumed that in the country where capitalism is king such critical parts of the infrastructure are naturally 24/7 just like airports but I guess that somewhere in the process something when terribly wrong and infrastructure has been neglected because a non 24/7 port is in my mind just a way to limit commerce and nothing else.

"yes, the planet got destroyed , but for a beautiful moment in time we created value for the shareholders."

That would literally break the US economic model of having the US dollar as the global reserve currency You can't have manufacturing as well as having the US dollar as the global reserve currency Choose on other the other, not both

You do realize literally every country has supply chain issues right now right? Take an economics class, sadly its just not that simple to resolve.

Exactly! I never could figure out why us companies want everything from foreign countries and not make our own products! China is laughing all the way to the bank

@@dgrooveicb because you have zero knowledge about world economy, finances and accounting.

​@@dgrooveicb Because US labor cost is astronomical. If you are willing to make shoes on a few dollar a day, then America can compete with China/ASEAN countries. Shipping cost argument doesn't matter, because even if you manufacture in US, you still need to ship the raw materials to US. This is called competitive advantage. To take advantage of this competitive advantage as an American, you invest in future growth industries, because US dollar is worth more.

Even In Washington post they've built some tech and selling to other media companies that's some genius business skills by bezos

Bezos gets far to much hate than credit. Im not saying he dosent deserve hate, he definitely does. But what im saying is that he has made some ridiculously smart moves and decisions that will have made amazon a top company for years to come. . Has anyone seen Idiocracy ? Instead of Costco it will be amazon.

Yes they're repeating what they did with AWS; build a core requirement in-house, but built to serve "a customer". That customer can be Amazon or anyone else willing to pay. Fantastic business sense.

Logistics is Amazon's bread and butter.

@@MegaMeco2 it was not his ingenuity or intelligence, it was money he made from Amazon over 2 decades that enabled him to do all this.

Not prosperous compliant company Soon they will be in charge of food distribution

@@crisdlcruz145 they've also recently gotten heavily into pharmacy sales and delivery.

@@hewhohasnoidentity4377 That is why when I walked in a store during the PLANDEMIC and they ask "where is your mask a.k.a BREATHING BARRIER", I walk out and shake my head. Because amazon will eventually become the biggest oligopoly we've ever seen and it will DESTROY everything in it's path. They will start doing produce/frozen/fresh products in the next decade. I haven't walked foot in a store since the PLANDEMIC started because I refuse to participate in UNscience. When I order something from Amazon they never ask me to wear a Breathing Barrier that have no exhalation unit on it, thus causing you to breath in your own garbage. I just pay and I get what I paid for. I never wanted to support amazon and leave behind the small businesses but small businesses did this to themselves. What a lot of people doesn't know is that these business got a 70 percent of their income supplemented by the government, that is why they stayed closed during the PLANDEMIC. In other words they made more money staying closed than if they were to open, because they didn't have to pay employees. And now Amazon will DESTROY THEM ALL! It's a bitter sweet, but that's what happen when you've become the warden of your own prison.

No, if you want to pay cost instead of retail for a service and exert more control, you’ve gotta do it yourself.

@@SrChalice - I just ignore the local masking ordinance when I go to the grocery store.

Feel free to quit.

I work for a distributors for another company and I hear you we get screwed too

Don't worry, anyone who has those jobs or has gotten one will tell you no one has received any signing bonuses.

Yeah no kidding, just like how minimum wages increased.. but many workers who make more did not see any raise. And this is why so many skilled workers quit to start fresh at a higher pay.

Actually my new location we all got our sign up bonuses so maybe it depends on the location . I had got a $1,000 sign up bonus. But that’s cuz it’s a new warehouse in my city.

"Extremely proactive"??? Meaning government "help".

@@TheJaxsonjack exactly bro this Jews get it done like that.

And here in usa the postal service is a joke.....and I am being nice.....I get mail twice a week Tuesdays and Fridays.......that is Our delivery schedule even for the holidays ...

@@haroldk724 What? Did you even listen to your words? You're complaining that you get mail twice a week consistently? You literally just compared that to the "2-4 weeks" from OP's Australia's comment? Boomers will complain about everything and anything even though ya'll got handed everything and fked up our economy for the future generations.

People hate Bezos with passion. They hate him so much, that they still shop on Amazon.

He's not their CEO anymore by the way...

@@victoriancu7358 you can hate a ceo. Doesn’t mean you have to dislike the company itself

People alway hate, unsuccessful lazy people hate the hard working successful people.

He is single handedly battling increasing consumer costs... What a devil..

Right.

I see nothing wrong with this. May the best man win lol

@@deetaylor Neither do I.

Well said

That's to be expected from the biggest company on the planet that intends on world monopoly

What will Amazon do when people stop buying things from China?

@@TheVoiceInYourHeadd that will never happen...what they make is better

@@TheVoiceInYourHeadd Will not happen, in sometime China will become more expensive to produce stuff and India will become the new china.

@@TheVoiceInYourHeadd they’re going to shift either to other East Asian/ south Asian countries, African or middle eastern ones, east European in some cases. Then, they’ll try to get bigger at basic goods production (things like tv’s, speakers, or home appliances. If it doesn’t work, they’ll get more and more invested in the infrastructure sector, for telecom’s and general shipping/transport business

Yeah, they don't need to spend on inventory.

Amazon charges 20% of selling price for listing. We don't hold much inventory.

@@johnsarab4500 exactly

@@johnsarab4500 Amazon doesn't pay for it. They get paid

How can you know that for sure though? Recently I had an interview at Amazon for Software Development, my interviewer was a guy who worked in the "Returns " department, SDE 3. I asked him the same question at the end of my interview: "Does Amazon purchase all the goods and then sell it or does it simply provide a platform to connect buyer and seller?" His reply was "It depends" He said it was a company secret and could not explain the details, but he said it depends a lot on the demand and supply for a particular product before Amazon makes that decision... Even in this video, its clearly said they have a lot of data on us and anticipate demand. Now of course, it cannot exactly predict what I'm going to buy for Christmas, but it can make a guess on the no. of iPhones they are gonna sell in the mass market, and pre-order goods. Its actually really smart...

Agree

Not sure where you are coming up with that, almost the entirety of the non-local container freight goes by rail. Union Pacific and BNSF haul it to more or less the Mississippi River, where it is picked up by CSX or Norfolk Southern. And that’s not counting the Canadian coast to coast operations via CN and CP.

Ships are loaded by regional destinations. If they are loaded for cargo with destinations east of the Mississippi they will go to ports in the atlantic or gulf states.

The biggest crux of the matter is a lack of chasis. During the rush period before christmas there simply isn't enough of them to go around. I think ultimately there is a lesson to be learned here that we must shift production back to the Americas because this problem isn't going away soon.

@@Glidescube They should move factories to Latin America. All those migrants will have jobs. If they get wealthier there is less reason for them to go the US.

The problem is not software. Has nothing to do with software.

The problems lie with failed policies and dirty politics at the expense of consumers, not a technology setback.

The software exist at least since 1984 for this. Its a HW issue, not an SW issue.

I might know why... after 9/11 so many IT advancements of both software and hardware were reallocated to the defense industry. I know a few companies whose contacts with commercial companies were “terminated” or “reassigned” to the defense industry. Interestingly it resulted in a slight delay of the tech boom. I’m not too sure about now though.

All because of greed, and competitivity between countries and companies. This is why as John Lennon said, we should not have any different countries

Just use Mexico ports there part of NAFTA

WTF are you talking about? If amazon owns the planes, the ships, the containers, etc. They aren't competing they are monopolizing the game. Do you honestly think Amazon would be ok with helping out its competition? They have nothing to loose from "partnering up with another business" because at the end they just add more data into their system and isn't that what is valued more than goods?

@@Arewethereyet69 You're missing the point. Walmart and Home Depot are utilizing each others empty trailers, drivers, and other assets to keep the supply chain moving. The Big Three automakers, the railroads, and TTX have been doing this since the 60's. It's called a Pool Agreement.

You also have to give a huge credit to his parents which gave him $300 k to start it all.

@@lrodd247 if you say something like that, we should thank his parents for giving him birth.

@@troll2637 Not really. Mostly any female can give birth... But a very small percentage of the population is able and willing to hand over $300 k to their son or daughter at a young age. Between his huge financial help and his creativity and intelligence, you get what we see.

@@lrodd247 reading your reply made me agree with you. However, your first comment made it seem like you gave all the credit to his parents.

@@troll2637 I agree, I should have elaborated. Glad we can still have a respectful convo in this day and age. Have a good day 😎✌️

A few years ago. Some girl got sent coupons for baby stuff, her dad flipped, but the ai detected she was pregnant

@@RosaParksShoe lmao

@@RosaParksShoe wow i wanna look into this more, do you have a link?

well thats their goal. Say goodbye to privacy.

@@RosaParksShoe it is true.

I think that she is the best broker I ever seen

Mrs sonia has changed my financial status for the best all thanks to my aunty who introduced her to me

Mrs Sonia is obviously the best, I invested $3,000 and she made profit of $28,000 for me just in 15 days

Her success story is everywhere

Who's this professional everyone is talking about I always see her post on top comment on every RU-vid video I watched

Buy with prime about to hit. Soon amazon will control everything lmao

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When you prioritize speed above all else other areas like quality usually take a hit

@@JacobDegenaro And pay

@@Pernection and drivers peeing in bottles.

That's why they loose so many packages. If the item comes out of the box it's lost. Once it becomes separated from the shipping label they don't know where it goes. And they won't put any effort to figure out where it belongs, it's just lost.

Yeah love these mini documenteries

@@senoow4215 Check out the 2-hour Amazon documentary on the PBS Frontline RU-vid channel. Although it's not specifically about supply chains, it's excellent. For supply chain-related topics, there's another RU-vid channel called the Epic Economist" that puts out a lot of short mini-docs like this one, albeit with a doom&gloom sky-falling vibe.

@@brad3378 Thanks, will do.

really, so an biased video of only the "good things" is "One of the best reports i've seen on this topic"? This must be a joke??? Please tell me you were joking. Or else this is just sad.

@@Arewethereyet69 explain why it isn't if u so smart 😂😂

We need a chance again to make our own we americans aren't dummies ok

Money solves headaches

People that say otherwise are either poor and in denial, or rich and never wanted for anything in the first place.

But it sure helps.

It can't buy everything.

It’s bause America is the worst country and failed country wahah

Did you just copy someone's comment? 😂😂 Not sure if it was them or you lol

its the route they use its cheaper to use the pacific route compared to the indian and atlantic route

"Small" vs. "smaller." The word used was "smaller." There's a very distinct difference.

@@AbsolutelyRedundant nope my comment was stolen. I'm Navy sailor and grew up in Houston. dark is just farming.

Really? We will see then

There are more Teslas & Bezos to come to replace them as well. give it another 30 years

Maybe he was reading all those books too.

@@MAG320 So?

Virtually unlimited money allows you to do a lot of seemingly amazing things.

@@marcus_b1 yeah but you have to earn that unlimited amount of Money in the first place. Bezos started it from his garage with no money. If it was so easy everyone would be doing it.

AWS didn't solve the container situation either. Getting a ship to dock is half the battle. If you look at Home Depot, Walmart and the likes they chartered their own ships only to not be able to secure dock appointments and wait for an "opening" when there are 100 ships outside the port itself.

California always end up being the donkeys.

Or buy out a lot of ports

Why a peace symbol? A monopoly of a company to controll everybody is not peacefull, but bad for the workingclass.

@@infestus5657 it's my signature.☮️

@@spoileralert3754 ah alright

You forgot... Amazon will eventually build its own China.

that would be great except for the fact that american workers are lazy AF and want to get free handouts to sit in their moms basement.

Got any idea how much your 65 inch Smart TV or amazing new iPhone 18 would cost you if it was Made In America? That is why nothing is made here now except Whiskey, Zippos and Americans.

@@michaelbyron1166 don't have either. The cheapy insignia TV with a Sonos soundbar is enough with a google nexus 5 rooted with oxygen os. Problem isn't the labor, our problem is the economy where the people are to sleepy to understand the problem.

@@gtzgreatride Before 2018 an ipad made in the us would have cost 11k dollars

If production is moved away from Asia, raw materials or WIP will still need to be exported out of Asia. Effectively you'll be changing from importing 1 finished item to importing lots of raw materials. Your tonnage will go up and so will shipping prices. Labour costs are also far higher in most countries than in the countries that currently make up the majority of production. So, respectfully, I disagree that it would be more economically feasible.

So avoiding taxes via tax loop holes didn't play any role?

@@safakt3986 they can't avoid taxes. The IRS is on them as they have the biggest target on their back. They can't pay more than required as the IRS would just refund them the taxes like they do you

@@safakt3986 they pay roll taxes, y r u so bitter

Amazon is the most shady company in the U.S. They're like the mafia of the Internet but more successful, more aggressive and you will struggle to find dirt on them.

Amazon Web Servcies services is what you just said at the end of your comment

It was born here. Our collective desire for the highest wages and the lowest retail costs drove away the jobs that made for a balanced economy.

You would think the higher cost of labor here in the states would now be offset by the shipping rates. The us should fully take advantage of this position.

Cant remeber exactly what company it was but they packed up and moved from china back to the US

@@JA-wb5my The shipping rates will go back down, the higher labor costs will only continue to go up. On top of that, you have to build the building, maintain it, pay property taxes, adhere to massive amounts of regulations, and so on and so on. This shipping problem is temporary, at least we think it is and it should be. Im not advocating for overseas manufacturing, just pointing things out.

It would be nice, but China is the top metal production in the world with the tech they have. We are unfortunately far behind in the production industry for metal.

I only have a echo for it’s sound and use Amazon music cause mom has a family package lol but Amazon knows what they are doing and they do it well

Don't tell people the unions are offering an incentives for companies to not work with them. Some people have an ideology to mantain.

My question is why are we not building the containers in the states they are easy to build and it would create a lot of jobs our president should have been all over that

True

Business with china is ew. Anything China made is cringe until the CCP is disbanded

F Amazon

what's really amazing to me is that this something to be proud of for you.. wow..

"Untold stories"?, I am sure we all know how that story goes, Amazon creates a deal with the chinese government in exchange for cheap labor. WOW so revolutionary!

It is small compared to European and Asian ports. Rotterdam is 10x the size of NYNJ (yes, ten times). If you look at the list of the largest ports in the world, you have to scroll down far to find the first US Port.

very true mate.

Well, American companies need to step up their game.

@@LittleTut It is china that is willing to abuse its citizens with pennies is the reason that the manufacturing jobs go over to china.

@@LittleTut Ain't happening with woke protestors trying to forcibly hike up taxes and wages.

They like doing it because it is cheaper to hire in china and less strict labor laws

You want Wendy's? Pay them more.

@@meleejones tf you blabbering about

@@meleejones They can’t even get a simple order correct. They don’t deserve better pay.

@@meleejones some to most 18 wheeler's are manual transmission try leaving the lot in one of those if you know how to drive stick. Long travel distance without seeing your family, long drives, parking your 18 wheeler in tough spots knowing how to operate it is a more skilled job than flipping burgers buddy

Or get immigrants

but they won't cover that part, instead they glorify Amazon as some type of GOD. Video is all propaganda. No mention of Union busting, no mention of how Amazon has turned into a monopoly, or how it steals intellectual property.

Blame your government, not Amazon

No, no.. Its a trucker problem. And dock problem. Truckers don't want work and ports wont give work. (Joke) The containers at ports are empty. Boats cant offload full containers. Ports are full.

People always like to make up conspiracy theories.

lol he said thang

Is they lose their price advantage they are finished .

Putting all industries on notice. Mad respect.

Why are people stupid?

Just swallowed my pride and applied to work for them.

@@maitlandnewton3841 I worked for Amazon as a temporary warehouse operative in the UK...and to be honest, it wasn’t as bad an experience as I have seen many claim! I actually enjoyed working there!

@@maitlandnewton3841 *letting you know ur not getting that sign on bonus thats a lie*

that movie wall-e is legit the future

@@BillyPhilipRwoth I'm a driver and for the most part i'm not stressed. However, all the Warehouse people at our station are hating their lives. I've never seen such a depressed group of individuals.

Q: How did Canadians decide to spell their country's name: A: C, eh? N, eh? D, eh?

We'd be in a socialist "utopia."

Do you know the restrictions of the Licenced Truckers authorize to drive in and out of California Ports its constricting for a regular LTL driver.

@@larryjohnson6400 I’d imagine just a Twic card?

@@dontdoxmebro $125.00 to $105.00 depends on if the load is or is not Hazardous Materials good for 5 years.

There only is a shortage because of drug testing and the requirement of a SS card or a greencard. If they ever let illegals drive, then there will be no jobs.

@@trentallman984 One year Michigan was giving out CDL License like candy. The road accidents from this activity increased 60% until they stoped giving them to just any individual.

those private railroads, trains, ports, and ships will at the end be subsidized by tax payer money. So i wouldnt be happy about it.

Think more long term then short term.

dont forget about FED printing 40% of dollar in existence and also the debt limit (which will due in mid december)

@@armada70 Yes.

I work for a good size regional LTL freight company. I just work on the semis but I still get informed. My company just signed a deal to partner with full load companies so we can haul their full trailer loads. But we are already short on drivers, dock workers, mechanics, and not to mention we ordered 400 semis this year and seen 150 of them across the company. But Volvo can't build the other 250 without the parts from the container ships, can't get the containers without truck drivers and trucks. It's a circle. What the hire ups decided is we will strip our old 1million Mile semies and put those parts on the waiting volvos. Figured we can 1 semi and strip it and we can get 4 new ones on the road. It's a whole mess and we don't have enough old volvos to make it happen.

Exactly! All part of the plan to destroy small businesses, the middle class and transfer that wealth to the top 1%. The plan is working well for them so far. But it's not over yet.

Transport inside huge bubble wrap looking pods that float and magneticly attach to the conveyor belt that pulls it across the ocean and directly unloads right to the top of a flat bed truck ready to put in the miles. Every quarter of the rail system have check points and customs bla bla stuff lol 😂😂 crazy but possible 🤔

😁

That will never happen

@@thisismarkbro I'll have to agree with you there. It's like when America, the colony, became the producer of goods for the European colonists and America became a wealthy country. So at some point when China surpasses America's economy (and the wealth that goes along with it) we're gonna be just another country begging to borrow more money or better yet print the money like we're doing now and we'll be paying for Chinese goods by the barrel.

Your lucky, my packages usually take a week. They used to only take 2 days and that was the reason I originally subscribed to PRIME.

People are stupid for dealing with Amazon.Amazon is garbage

Amen. Clickbait doesn't get into realities such as the empty TEU pileup in the midwest at rail transloads which actually may be the true culprit and prime point of constraint in the backlog. No one thought much about the backhaul empties, it seems.

sssh you might make the simps for Amazon mad.

Great metaphor!