Over the past decade Amazon has developed an incredible infrastructure of warehouses and fulfillment centers dedicated to delivering your toilet paper and books within hours. For customers, these spaces are invisible, rarely thought about or even seen. But a new map reveals exactly where they are—and how quickly they're springing up.
The map was compiled by Channel Advisor's CEO Scott Wingo, and creating it sounds like an incredible chore (you can read the full blow-by-blow on his blog post). Wingo explains that the biggest areas of growth for Amazon this year were in Eastern Europe, where several new Fulfillment Centers were built, and India, where there are rumored plans to build four new FCs.
There are also plans to build 15 new "Sortation" Centers in the US over the next few months in preparation for the holiday boom. What's the difference between a Sortation and Fulfillment Center? Re/Code explains that this is "a newer type of facility, typically smaller than fulfillment centers, where orders are sorted in-house rather than by a partnering shipping company." Apparently, these new, smaller spaces are being put in place to prevent another shipping debacle like the one that plagued customers last year.
It's a pretty interesting set of maps—and you can bet it's going to change drastically over the next 12 months. See the American map below. [Re/Code; Channel Advisor]
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