Discuss Amazon.com outbound transportation and sortation network designs. Identify with supporting evidence what Amazon’s weaknesses are in both of their network designs. Offer recommendations on how to create a better network design for their transportation and sortation processes. Lastly, describe how the type of product would affect the design of a supply chain network?

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Read the online article Wulfraat, M. (2014, July 23). Logistics Comment: Amazon is Building a New Distribution Network – Quickly and Quietly! Retrieved from Supply Chain Digest:

Discuss Amazon.com outbound transportation and sortation network designs. Identify with supporting evidence what Amazon’s weaknesses are in both of their network designs. Offer recommendations on how to create a better network design for their transportation and sortation processes. Lastly, describe how the type of product would affect the design of a supply chain network?