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What are Amazon warehouses really like?
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I've seen worse myself. At least Amazon warehouses aren't at much risk of going "boom" on you in a thunderstorm. |
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There was a recent news show that is showing Amazon now using Robots that bring the needed shelve-rack to the pickers.
This includes putting a Spotlight onto the proper shelf to aid fast locating. After the item is picked, the shelf returns to storage. The computer stores frequently used shelves closer to the pick station to reduce travel time. |
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Oh that makes me think maybe if I look for the Ark of the covenant on their website that they would send it to me. I kind of wanted to open that thing to see all those ghosts floating around before they melt my face away...
EDIT: I'll be damned... http://www.amazon.com/Design-Toscano...ch+of+covenant Last edited by Quexos; 01-27-2015 at 03:25 AM. |
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Is that picture legitimate (Amazon Warehouse)?
My nieces would also react to those life-size Justine Bieber stand-ups and contest there should also be ones from One Direction. Hahaha. Also, I'm baffled that Amazon won't organize their things. God knows we need to properly shelf copies of Barbie VHS from 1993, 1994 to present... lol |
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But it isn't by some archaic, simplistic system like product name or marketting category. Rather it is by available volume space at time of arrival. As the article says, the computers know where everything is so they don't waste time sorting and reorganizing stuff, they just stuff it in the first available cubby that can hold it. Their warehouses are a lot like computer hard drives. Do note that the warehouse procedures they describe are for the older, pre-robot warehouses. The newer robotic warehouses are slightly different: in those, the pickers stay at their stations and it is the racks that move. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...eady-ship.html Last edited by fjtorres; 01-27-2015 at 06:43 AM. |
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At my workplace, we had a warehouse of printer ribbons. They deliberately did not stock similar ribbons side by side to avoid people mistakenly grabbing the wrong ribbon when placing an order.
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I agree (War)e Houses are a world unto themselves.
-- Don't fear the AI, the Djinn or Skynet, rather fear the WareNet!! While in school, I spent 6 months at a Pepsi warehouse. It was an experience! Rampaging propane fueled forklifts driven by zonked out parolees from nearby prisons, governed by retired Military Sgts! |
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