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? ? ? ? In addition, the Amazon operations center is the industry's leading and behind the operations center of the global distribution system, large data warehouse applications, and operating procedures are in accordance with global standards, in order so that we can intuitively "see" today we took the Amazon is located in Phoenix, Arizona, operations center as an example for everyone diagram - look how Amazon's warehouse operation.

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? ? ? ? Amazon Phoenix (Phoenix) operations center in September 2007 put into use, the same year on September 27 delivered its first order.

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? ? ? ? Phoenix operations center is located in the Amazon operations center in North America's largest, covering about 56,206 square meters, equivalent to 10 football fields, a total length of 9.6 km wher the conveyor belt, the operations center can be transported hundreds of thousands of orders per day.

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? ? ? ?Phoenix Operations Center was originally designed to adapt to the rapid development of the Amazon, by expanding distribution operations center to accelerate the speed of the peripheral consumer receives the goods, to further enhance the shopping experience. This article shows that the Phoenix warehouse operations center three small items in the warehouse.

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? ? ? ?Order buyers

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? ? ? ? once the order is received by the system, suppliers can be in the terminal via a specific site delivery reservation, you will be given a conventional distribution warehouse and storage space to make a calculation of customer orders, the final decision which supplier to the Treasury - Accept local goods is Amazon's "warehouse dock."

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? ? ? ?Receipt

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Treasury Pier 24 hours of receipt, when employees in the warehouse dock receipt, the box will open on the goods bar code scanning, so these items are entered into the system inside the Amazon, but this time they did not foreign sales of goods, but waiting for the shelves.

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? ? ? ?A small warehouse is innovative Phoenix - Receipt of each table has a small button, employees have any questions about the receipt can press the button, the warehouse will think of short tones, within 10 seconds there will be a assistant over to employees to solve the problem.

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? ? ? ?Goods shelves

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? ? ? ? After the goods after the scan is then placed on a shelf waiting blue shelves with shelves dedicated staff will push away these items, a second scan and work on the car, then these goods in a few hours within placed on the shelf, and the moment, the user will be able to see the goods from the shelves and make a purchase on amazon.com.

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? ? ? ?Random Added

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? ? ? ?All goods looks are "placed at random", and picking follow the "people moving goods do not move." The staff responsible for shelves, depending on the routes, and whether there is space on the shelf, "placed at random" and scan to the system. The advantage of this is - to shorten the distance between picking and improve picking efficiency; more efficient use of warehouse space.

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? ? ? ?Big Data System

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? ? ? It can be placed at random according to the recording position, and the demand for goods orders, were picking the shortest path calculation goods. The system will be a few orders assigned to an employee, and optimize the best route, employees and even paperless operation, and after each scan after picking up an item, the handheld terminal will automatically tell him to go to the next shelf.

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? ? ? In picking, the system will be divided into two orders, one is a single item orders, and the other is a plurality of orders of goods from two different packaging lines, this has the advantage of saving time.

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? ? ? Fast shipping system

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? ? ? Picking member according to the order and calculated route to the system, after picking up trucks filled, it will be sent to the packing line. After packing table employees to scan items, the system will enter when commodity size, weight, automatic selection of suitable packaging, packaging staff, stickers, stickers order information, then the goods will be placed on the side of a rolling conveyor belt .

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? ? ? ?How to plan for the Amazon goods?

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? ? ? Different goods disorderly placed on a pick up truck, the owner of the goods is not a person, how to distinguish?

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? ? ? The system will tell the Packers. In front of the Packers have the capacity to adjust the size of the different shelves, each scanning a commodity, the system will automatically recognize the shelves on which such an order the goods can be unified together. The system then also according to the length and width of all items, give the most appropriate packaging recommendations, articles pasted into the same order after the conveyor belt.

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? ? ? ?Review

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? ? ? ?But before that, there is a special Amazon weighing procedures to measure and order the parcel is identical in content.

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? ? ? ?In the middle of the belt, there will be an instrument of order information on the package is scanned, and the weight on the conveyor belt to be assessed, the system will have the weight of the goods receipt when the order information on these cumulative do, whether calculated and measured consistent weight, based on the contents of this estimate is wrong. If the error is large, it will be automatically kicked out at a fork in the conveyor belt, waiting for employee verification.

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? ? ? ?Express sorting area

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? ? ? ?Those goods no problem, on the rolling conveyor belt, mighty to express area, there are sorting staff, depending on the logistics information on the order, the goods classification to a different conveyor belt at the end, different courier truck waiting for the arrival of these goods, and sent to the hands of users in the order desired time.

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? ? ? ?The other two regions

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? ? ? ?A storage area a lot of machinery and equipment, these machines in the New Year, Christmas and other festive summit enabled. There is an area of ??some stacked orderly selling products that large shipments, fast turnaround, so it is put out separately, such as the launch of the Amazon Kindle.

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? ? ? ?After Xiaobian visit the "embattled" Phoenix operations center, you still want to see more? Phoenix will not be just a special "exhibits"?

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? ? ? ?If you think so, then let us follow Teddy perspective to feel the Amazon operations center in Seattle Tracy Bar -

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? ? ? ?Amazon operations center looks like a huge automatic operation of the machine, many people think that Amazon is an Internet company, but behind the Internet, has a very large and complex systems. These intelligent systems, the Amazon shopping experience more convenient and intimate, but also Amazon innovation, upgrading results.

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? ? ? ?Thanks to Amazon's flat management, each employee can participate Amazon innovation. For example, the above mentioned staff help button, that is, employees in the work of innovation, which is in the Amazon staff culture advocated carry out a variety of bottom-up innovation.