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Short review Amazon Fulfillment Center Tour with AWS

Products from where they're received stowed then picked packed and put on a truck for
distribution the inbound process starts with forecasting and ordering before anything arrives
to the fc engine is used for over 400 million products daily let's go to the receiving area as
you'll see we put a lot of energy into our logistics it's a symphony of people aws software and
other high-tech components the result is a coordination between our great
employeesemployees and the finely honed computer systems we've evolved for more than 20
years our employees are the heart and soul of our operation some are military veterans some
are active members of the community some are employees that work here with their loved
ones they're all amazing trailers full of vendor and small and medium business seller items
arrive at these bay doors by appointment employees unload the trailers and begin the process
of staging items located at their receiving workstations this fc carries millions of items of
inventory and using the service known as amazon aurora we manage our inventory
transactions and other relational database needs at this station you can see how ourour
inbound associate receives a product and how those products are stowed in our inventory

amazon robotic drive units are activated when an associate logs into their workstation to
perform their task storage pods arrive facing the correctcorrect side to stow items into
inventory every time an associate touches a product they scan a unique barcode for that item
which we call the amazon standard identification number or asin that's stored in our inventory
system so we know what the quantity and location of that item is at any given time to manage
our inventory history.we use amazon neptune a fast reliable Filly managed graph database
service from aws now you might expect that we'd organize this in a way where similar items
are stowed together for example all electronics would be stored in the same sectionsection
however at amazon we've found that it's more efficient to stow products using a randomized
method that's why you'll see a variety of items in each inventory bin once that process has
been completed a physical and digital match is created in our systems so just a few seconds
after an item is stowed you can order it on amazon.com

looking at a station next door we see a great example of computer vision helping with
automation when an associate scans an item you'll see magenta lights over some of the bins
in the pod this lets the associate know not to place that item in those locations as artificial
intelligence driven logic has determined that the bin is full thatthat placing an item there may
negatively impact the pods overall weight distribution or that a visually similar item is there
and may cause confusion later when an associate needs to pickpick the item the associate can
then place the item in any of the other bins but computer vision doesn't stop there it will also
detect what bin the associate reached into and knows where that item is placed as

one final step

it will take a picture of the pod and use image recognition to count the number of items in the
bin making sure the count matches what is recorded in our tracking systems when the
machine learning model has low confidence it sends images to people to classify and train
more ground truth data for our machine learning model which operates in amazon sagemaker
and amazon sagemaker ground truth from aws this allows us to perform ongoing inventory
reconciliation avoiding the scheduled inventory counts that are often done at least once a year
at other organizations
organization now what's up with those robots we see moving the pods around there are
thousands of robot drive units spread throughout each floor helping associates fulfill
customer orders daily amazon robotics operate in dedicated fenced-off areas within the fc
which account for about 65 of the facility's total square footage the drive units travel to
various locations in rfc to pick up mobile shelves of product and deliver them to employees
who are working at ergonomic workstationsworkstations to navigate they read 2d barcodes
on the floor and locations are tracked in real time
using our own created robotic operating software our amazon robotics team has developed
more than 100 services to support operations and uses aws extensively in the amazon
fulfillment centers only specially trained individuals wearing custom safety equipment are
allowed to enter this area but on our virtual tour we're allowed to walk through this restricted
area each sortable fc has over one million unique items helping us with our goal toto provide
earth's largest selection you may be thinking okay robots are.