As a Supply Chain Manager within the Amazon Sortation Center (SC) network, you will play a critical role in ensuring that our ~120 buildings meet the complex demands of Amazon’s next-day and two-day delivery promises. Our Sortation Centers (SCs) process packages from fulfillment centers and sort them by delivery zip code for last-mile delivery to our customers. The primary goal of this role is to define the long-term strategy of the SC network to improve customer experience and reduce the cost to serve. You will develop and execute strategies for optimizing our build plan, as well as influence automation and retrofits to ensure our network remains safe, robust, updated, and fully utilized.
Key job responsibilities
Operational Plan & Build Plan Development: Collaborate with network planning and engineering teams to develop, refine, and optimize a comprehensive build plan that aligns with the organization's strategic goals and growth objectives.
Capacity Planning: Manage capacity planning efforts, ensuring that our network capacity is continuously evaluated and optimized as needed to support our operations through peak and prime.
Automation and Retrofit Initiatives: Identify opportunities for automation and retrofit projects within the supply chain to enhance efficiency and reduce operational costs.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with engineering, operations, network planning, and other teams to ensure alignment and synergy in supply chain initiatives.
Performance Metrics: Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of the network capacity and make data-driven decisions.
Risk Management: Identify and mitigate potential risks in the supply chain, developing contingency plans to minimize disruptions for peak, prime and other critical events.
Continuous Improvement: Drive a culture of continuous improvement within the organization, implementing best practices and innovative solutions.
About the team
Engineering Capacity Planning team's mission is to optimize network capacity and non-capacity build plans for Sort Centers within the NASC Engineering organization. As the hub for NASC Engineering planning efforts, we integrate workstreams across all stages of the Sort Center lifecycle, enabling the actualization of standardization and optimization efforts. We are dedicated to delivering solutions that drive efficiency and excellence in our capacity utilization and lifecycle cost of our assets.
