Amazon Fulfillment Center Tour with AWS 

Changes are made step by step with extensive off-site pilot testing. The FCs are also modular so they scale nicely. Moreover, only some FCs have the latest infrastructure.

they will save so much money when they fire all those inefficient humans

Juan Shaft Patel 🗿

We are still sorting out problems from long before the FC opens

@@juanshaftpatel7488 ROBIN

yeah you need to learn how to use the machine to work there

@@juanok2775 Nice Juan!

Did you ever work at an Amazon fulfillment center?

i can tell you most of the store will never have something like this its usally heavy lifting, and there will never be this many robots.

honestly they should show the hours and the messed up sh*t they do.

They do value their customers that's why they accept no mess ups. Trust me I work for this company for 9 months and they are very accurate and what they do and if you mess up you mess up and you failed the company and the customer

@@karena2746 you must not work with the facilities then, its an absolute hell. The shifts are ridiculously bad on your back. Nor are they helpful with scheduling.

@@thegamingfudgeftw4682 Because of these employees we all get our delivery at our doorstep.

@@12Thr33such a childish comment.

It just blows the mind.

@@BenRajan FC wise yes, Flex and DSP Delivery...Still needs a lot of work. Flex app is clunky, slow, not battery optimized. App or routing system needs work.

It is not so baffeling when you realize that it gives amazon a reason to keep the two companies together. Amazon is only financially viable because of aws. This system gives them a little more reason for not being slapped by antitrust. :-) but it’s really clever ofcourse....

@@Thesupermachine2000 thats not true, its been financially viable before AWS. Free Cashflow is the real reason its successful, net income is not the reason.

@@Kimchi203010 all the more reason to uncouple then ;-)

@@Thesupermachine2000 so jeff bezos gets richer? you do know splitting the company would make shareholders far richer in the long run. look at what happened to standard oil. AWS alone is going to be worth 1 trillion dollars.

they will save so much money when they fire all those inefficient humans

It's The Case of the Missing Stuff. Sounds like a job for Sherlock Holmes😀

Are you an AI?

You seem proud of being a public nerd. Keep your pithy comments to yourself, boy.

Option one: stow all computer mice in one bin, only one can be picked from at a time, stow it randomly in 10-20 bins, multiple can be picked from. Stow mice and powercable together, u likely good!

no sometime the bigger size in box is cheaper than smaller one

If you’re referring to the seemingly odd size of some boxes, I’m sure the size is only one in a dozen parameters that govern the selection during the time window when the choice is made.

10:02 that's really why the box sizes are selected. Not for the product inside, but for packing in a truck.

@@joegroom3195 That’s one of the parameters I was referring to, yes.

It works perfectly because they select boxes not just to put products in but also based on truck packing so they fill the trucks in a way stuff doesn't fall and break. Wasted packaging means wasted money, something Amazon isn't going to do.

I mean, they use a recycled paper for their boxes so as long as you recycle your trash things are good. Sending someone to take the boxes back wouldn't be worth the cost and ecological impact. An interesting option would be box-less packaging. In our country (Czechia) the most popular online store has thousands of self-service mailboxes throughout cities, where, upon entering the PIN code of your order a locked shelve will unlock and you can take your items that are not packaged in any box. It is also quite convenient as I can pick it up whenever I have time as in Europe the delivery people can't leave your order in front of your doors, and if you happen not to be at your place, then they try to deliver it to us the next day.

lmao i work 14 hours a day delivering your packages. i literally piss in a cup in the back of my van twice a day. you want amazon to add to my workload? i agree that AMAZON should do a lot more to recycle and a million other things, but don't even try to put it on the 'delivery people'. you'd think after watching the video you commented on you would have worded it differently?????

@@itsmatt228 do you mean Alzabox? They are packaged, tho?!

You just spotted a business opportunity

thats so sad

Juan Shaft Patel dude you are soo sad

I work at Amazon and I see this a lot where people don’t leave their stations at all and it’s actually sad

Oh and btw its true about not being able take a bathroom break

@@blackpoodles9152 @Abraham Aman that sounds awful, I'm sorry y'all have to go through that...

@@abrahamaman8260 I take my bathroom breaks whenever I want or sometimes I go to the bathrooms just to waste time, I’m the one who’s working and drinking water I’m not gonna hold my piss just to stay on my station for 2 hours straight

Maybe should've tried harder in school if you wanted a better job.

Machine learning in your brain bruh

We agree! It's pretty great! 😁

Organized chaos. Kinda like a beautiful symphony

care to elaborate?

@@myGorillaMindset they fire you for any reason they like. No job security

@@partytimelingerie9076 do they make people run around for packages? i think they skipped few things in the video

@@sb.sb.sb. overall bad experience

@@partytimelingerie9076 what's going on with the unions I hear about?

Don't forget RME 👍

Yes agree

This is an AR FC. The bins are brought to the picker in these facilities.

LMFAOOOO

Definitely plastic. Most likely what they use in rain-coats. Like Gore-Tex, Tyvek or coated nylons. It's waterproof, elastic, and lightweight.

they will save so much money when they fire all those inefficient humans

Obrigado! 🙌 ☁️ 😊

Amazon's ecommerce site is nothing without China because 97% of its goods are made in China. Check the product reviews and see for yourself. Plus its very hard not to buy anything made in China. Look around your home. As a non-Chinese, I think we should appreciate China for its contribution to the world regardless how the American govt tries to paint its competition. Yet they are quick to copy their moves, inventions and ideas.

Just employment I think. Their role looks very automatable

Judging by all the automation they have and how well it works. They’re just hiring people for the economies sake

That is basically it. They used to have an annual contest for folks to come up with a versatile grasping robot and haven’t cracked it yet.

This is a shit hole. They work you like a slave ,90 boxes per hour

@@davidheinig9948 No they don't, it's just like any other minimum wage job, just be great full your not a child soldier in Uganda or a modern day slave in the gulf countries.

As someone who has some insight into this, I would have to disagree. Vince Dhilan Dulay, Amazon has no minimum wage employees. All employees make at LEAST 15 an hour and they are about to get a substantial raise. They have excellent insurance (there are many employees that are semi-retired and only working for benefits because they cannot afford to self-insure. Education benefits are excellent even for tier ones. I DO agree they need to have better profit sharing. They used to give free stock and they should, again. When an employee is a part owner, they better see the benefits of frugality, industriousness and creative ingenuity. Just like with fast food, the general public ASSUMES that if total sales are high, that means that the entry level employee should be paid as a percentage of total sales. In fast food, most are owned by franchisees, NOT by the company. Likewise, almost half of Amazons sales are by third party vendors. Often times small startup companies and ma and pa local companies that simply use Amazon's infrastructure so they can grow and thrive because it would be to difficult and expensive to do themselves. Total profits also are affected by the cost of operating and Amazon's investments in building out fulfillment centers, corporate infrastructure, and research and development are huge. Real estate alone and the costs of machinery computers, communications, monitors, electricity and air conditioning, and AI is staggering. Many fulfillment centers are almost a mile long and three or four stories high with more than 25 miles with of conveyance. And of course they have 4/5 of a million employees all getting pay, vacation, insurance, retirement, etc Linden There absolutely ARE challenging departments, but for the MOST part rates are fair. In some departments such as "stow" the rates are ridiculously easy low (easy). And as with most companies worldwide in a wide number of industries, everything depends on the front line, low level supervisor as to how the tier one employee is treated. I think that almost everyone would admit there ARE some are needlessly "attentive", but the vast majority are unbelievably permissive, especially if the tier one is young and attractive. I have direct knowledge that some employees clock in an go to the break room and go to sleep or clock in and spend cumulatively 6-8 hours watching movies out of a 10 hour day (they work 4x10's not 5x8's). I DO believe rates should be adjusted both up AND down depending on the department and depending on the size and weight of the item. In pack, there are employees that cherry pick only the totes with single smalls (and their statistics show that they do upwards of 88% smalls) and they force their co-workers to take the large and heavy boxes. This gives them plenty of time to chit-chat, wander, watch videos on their phone, or play video games on their phone. Again, this is an issue that low level supervision allows. Mid level management or above mostly just see the total numbers and of course when the do walk the floor, the lazy people act busy. There is a middle ground, a fair middle ground between enabling laziness and enabling cheating and "being mean to the employees". I would have to agree that because of the "cheaters" the good, honest, and industrious employees get unfairly blamed. And that probably should be fixed. And the fault lies in low level supervision, not with corporate, not with upper site level management.

@@hrhamada1982 I agree with your analysis.