# Navigating uncertainty in Amazon's middle-mile network

DevFeed: [Navigating uncertainty in Amazon's middle-mile network](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/navigating-uncertainty-in-amazon-s-middle-mile-network-7604.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.amazon.science/blog/navigating-uncertainty-in-amazons-middle-mile-network>)

Author: Ruth Misener; Hana Ku; Georgios Paschos

Published: 2026-05-06T13:37:38Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Amazon Science homepage](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/amazon-science-homepage.md>)

Topics: [amazon](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon.md>), [Network design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network-design.md>), [Optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/optimization.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>)

Tags: [amazon](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/amazon.md>), [combinatorial-optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/combinatorial-optimization.md>), [demand-forecasting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/demand-forecasting.md>), [efficiency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/efficiency.md>), [middle-mile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/middle-mile.md>), [network-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network-design.md>), [operations-research-and-optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/operations-research-and-optimization.md>), [optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/optimization.md>), [scot](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scot.md>), [supply-chain](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/supply-chain.md>), [supply-chain-optimization-technologies-scot](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/supply-chain-optimization-technologies-scot.md>), [transportation-planning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/transportation-planning.md>)

## AI overview

Amazon engineers and scientists describe how they optimize the company's middle-mile delivery network under uncertainty. The article covers demand and travel-time variability, network design, routing, inventory positioning, and mixed-integer optimization across many facilities and products.

## Source excerpt

Amazon engineers and scientists have created new tools to optimize delivery networks under uncertainty -- and keep them adapting without missing a beat.