SupplyChain Magazine November 2019 | Page 43

Amazon ’ s fulfilment process begins when products arrive on tractor trailers and travel inside on conveyer belts as they start the process of reaching the all-important final destination : the customer . Following the product ’ s journey along the conveyer belts for packaging , the box is packed and weighed before then being loaded onto Amazon trucks to bring the orders from fulfilment centers to sortation centers . Amazon ’ s planes take to the air from 20 airports across the country , packages are loaded onto metal containers that holds hundreds of boxes in slotted stacks . With each plane having the space to carry over 30 containers , Amazon has the capacity to back up any influx of orders . To handle this , Amazon now offers a one-day delivery option for Prime members , in a bid to deal with the quick turnaround and process orders more efficiently .
However , despite this one-day delivery service , Amazon still didn ’ t feel this was quick enough . At the re : MARS conference ( Machine Learning , Auto- 43
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