"When the order comes in, a robot brings pods full of items to associates working at pick stations. The picker reads the screen, retrieves the correct item from the bin, and places it into a yellow plastic box called a tote." - Amazon Amazon has over 100 fulfillment centers across the...
Amazon’s supply-chain engineers have calculated that it’s more efficient for the items to be randomly dispersed, because as the next person in the supply chain—the “picker”—walks around to fill someone’s order, the scanner in her hand will tell her where the closest item is and ...