Amazon expands in Italy with a new distribution center and a dispatching center: here's where they will rise and when.
Italians love Amazon and Amazon reciprocates: from autumn 2021 the delivery service of the goods bought by our compatriots will be more efficient and faster thanks to the construction of two new logistics centers, one in Agognate, a hamlet of Novara and the other in Spilamberto, in the province of Modena.
The news of the opening of the two new Amazon facilities in northern Italy has just been announced by the e-commerce giant, who also stated that the total investment amounts to 230 million euros. Amazon's total investment in Italy, then, at the end of the year will have exceeded 6 billion in ten years. Economics aside, the interesting thing for everyone is that the two centers will improve Amazon's logistics network and this will result in faster deliveries and a greater assortment of products with immediate availability. Both plants will be equipped with the now well-known logistics automation systems, which have allowed Amazon to achieve increasingly shorter delivery times and cost optimization.
What the two new Amazon plants will do
The two plants that Amazon is preparing to build in Piedmont and Emilia Romagna will not have the same function. The one in Novara will be a distribution center, while the one in Modena will be a sorting center. In Novara, Amazon's employees (900 workers hired within three years of the site's start-up) will be responsible for picking, packing and shipping customer orders.
In the Spilamberto sorting center, the 200 new workers envisioned by the 2021-23 hiring plan will sort and prepare packages coming from the distribution centers. Amazon's supply chain, in fact, foresees different structures with different tasks in order to optimize delivery times.
In the distribution centers, the goods ordered by the user and shipped to Amazon by the manufacturer arrive. The goods arriving at these centers are sorted by robots and sent to belts, until the live operator proceeds to sort and label all the packages to be sent to a sorting center.
At the sorting center, however, the package is routed according to the final destination and the speed of delivery: Amazon Prime customers have priority.
Amazon in Italy
Amazon arrived in Italy in 2010 and, in ten years, has already invested 5.8 billion euros and employed about 8,500 people. Today in our country Amazon has 15 operational sites between distribution centers, sorting centers, the headquarters in Milan, the research center in Turin and customer service in Cagliari.
Seeing the size and specific needs of two cities like Rome and Milan, Amazon has opened two distribution centers specifically dedicated to these two large Italian urban centers.