Inside Amazon's Smart Warehouse

imagine having a warehouse probably with every item you could imagine... and you get a t-shirt or a water bottle for a good job... lol

When I started working in a Amazon fulfillment Center in 2017 we were allowed 1 error per 1000 items. By 2019 it was 1 error per 5,000 items.

The next automation they should come with is an adult diaper dispenser for warehouse employees. This will cut down on the amount of time it takes to pee into a bottle.

I've worked as an order picker at an AR fulfillment center and I am currently working at a different FC driving an order picker to pick larger, heavier items. Honestly, the work in the AR facility where I was stationary picking items off the pods that the robots bring to me was more exhausting. The rate at the AR facility was much higher, picking one order roughly every 7 seconds, and due to the height of the pod, you may need to kneel down to the bottom or climb a step ladder to the top... Every 7 seconds. Doing that for 40 hours a week was very tiresome. I personally wouldn't recommend working as an order picker in an AR facility.

I worked at an Amazon Distribution Warehouse for a month. It was brand new. You had to have a package stowed in at least 8 seconds and have a package scanned in less than 2 seconds. Mind the fact that you were dealing with 2 to 3 rows at a time. Not to be critical, but that type of time management is unrealistic. Getting paid $15 an hour to be ran ragged is not smart. I was able to find a better job in less than 24 hours getting paid $18 an hour plus benefits packaging electrical parts. Just working the second week at my new job I made right over $1,017 after taxes.😁

amazon is on an absolutely insane level

8:06 "This rate can be challenging to fulfill" *Unrealistic

The last line ”as long as we are all buying, Amazon will keep on delivering ” 👌💯

9:30 Amazon: Okay we are now going to invest in robotic ambulances

Amazon's smart warehousing is awesome! I found that as long as there are many types of products and many SKUs, smart warehousing will be used to deal with the problem. Our factory also has such smart warehousing. It is as high as several floors and can accommodate hundreds of thousands or even millions of product packages. Of course, the effect is very high when there are a lot of orders, which saves delivery time. As an employee of picking goods and quality inspection, they need to be in good physical condition and move quickly, and the working hours are also very long, sometimes there is no time to drink water and go to the toilet. This work is fast-paced and intense. When we receive the goods, we should be grateful in our hearts, because it comes from the hard work and sweat of many people!🙏😇

I work in an Amazon warehouse and started during the height of covid. The safety issues that we bring up to managers are rarely enforced, the truck the guy is shown loading will fall on someone. I've been hit several times because there isn't really much accountability between warehouses. It gets worse because they poorly train workers and hire people who don't care. While I don't work in an AI warehouse, I do know that several packages are mislabeled and cause more waste and time for real people to fix the slam machines' issues. Some times sharp objects are poking through thin envelopes and heavy objects (think dog food....) are not packed in reinforced boxes and consistently break open. Sorry hungry doggos. Good AI is still a LONG way into the future.

8:08 put another way, the workers have to process and package one package every 30 seconds (no later), to as fast as one per 12 seconds.

I used to work in a warehouse like this for Amazon. It was known as TEB9 in New Jersey. They named it that because TEB is the airport code for the closest airport, Teterboro. I forget what the 9 meant. But it honestly wasn't a bad job to have. I mean they kinda treat their employees like crazy but over there. It wasn't what I was hearing about too much. I can definitely see what it's all about.

I work at FedEx and this looks way easier than what I’m currently doing.

You missed the part where the boxes are half opened or on the ground or jamming conveyor belts.

This is insane. How well a warehouse is configured will have a bearing on how successful a business will be in the speed and accuracy with which it can achieve order fulfilment for its customers. This is clearly the case here.

2nd week at a brand new FC Warehouse, clocked in 8-10 miles every 10 hour shift. Got some good shoes, insoles, compression socks, I don't feel shit! 😁 time goes by fast too.

This is insane, say what you want about how they treat their workers, but the logistical and technological genius here is mind blowing. It’s wild to think that almost anyone in the US could order an item and within hours get it at their door step hand delivered, I remember having to wait until the next day just to drive 45 mins to the nearest Best Buy to get some DVD player or whatever...

To all the negative comments, the work at Amazon is easier than at other warehouse jobs (from experience), place is clean (minus the adults acting like mommy and daddy works there), environment is climate controlled, offers large breakrooms, cleaned bathrooms and a variety of work hours accommodating personal schedules. Company also offers a variety of employee programs to help you grow. Pay is not bad.... Yes, the work can get difficult, especially if you work too many hours and they do cap the work hours even if overtime is available.

Those pick rates are probably for Universal Stations. ARSAW’s are 340 - 400 units per hour. Last night, someone on my shift was hitting 512 uph. The errors are referring to what are called “False Pick Shorts” and are the quickest way for an employee to get in trouble, you’re basically cancelling out/delaying a customer order by hitting “Missing Item” on the pick screen. If the item is discovered by a “Counter” to be in the bin and the picker didn’t pick it but instead opted to cancel out the order, that’s a big no no. Always check and confirm through scanning all items in a bin to confirm an item as missing before labeling it as such.