We toured an Amazon fulfillment center yesterday. It’s unbelievable. Their inventory storage is counterintuitive. It’s organized randomness. • Inventory is stored on moving shelves. Robots take shelves to the pick stations. • Inventory is randomly placed on shelves, tracked by cameras. • A SKU’s inventory is spread out across bins to always be close to a pick station. • Shelves move over QR codes. Amazon always knows where everything is. • Inventory counts are automated with cameras. The computing that goes into the operation is incredible. Not sure it’d be possible without AWS.
@jbryanporter Billions of dollars of investment, and the shelves are bending under the weight of the packages, which are not very heavy. Anyone know what’s up with the shoes that the employees were wearing in the last photo?
@Alt_Perspektiv Good observation. They had us put on steel toed shoe covers for safety.
@jbryanporter @Alt_Perspektiv Clog dance time!