{"id":7693,"date":"2013-08-14T16:15:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T21:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7693"},"modified":"2013-08-14T16:15:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T21:15:33","slug":"inside-an-amazon-warehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/14\/inside-an-amazon-warehouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside an Amazon Warehouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/inside-amazon-warehouse-photos-909410\">Dave Smith<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/thought-palace.tumblr.com\/post\/57576336415\/new-aesthetic-inside-an-amazon-warehouse\">Jens Alfke<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/inside-amazon-warehouse-photos-909410\"><p>By storing items randomly instead of categorically, the warehouse has a much better flow of material. Even without robots or automation, Amazon can compile a &ldquo;picking list&rdquo; that locates where each item needs to be taken off the shelf and scanned again before it can be shipped.<\/p><p>The real advantage to chaotic storage is that it&rsquo;s significantly more flexible than conventional storage systems. If there are big changes in a product range, the company doesn&rsquo;t need to plan for more space, because the products or their sales volumes don&rsquo;t need to be known or planned in advance if they&rsquo;re simply being stored at random.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, free space is much better utilized in a chaotic storage system. In a conventional system, free space may go unused for quite a while simply because stock is low or there aren&rsquo;t enough products to begin with. Without any kind of fixed positions, available shelf space is always being used.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Smith (via Jens Alfke): By storing items randomly instead of categorically, the warehouse has a much better flow of material. Even without robots or automation, Amazon can compile a &ldquo;picking list&rdquo; that locates where each item needs to be taken off the shelf and scanned again before it can be shipped.The real advantage to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-7693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}