Amazon - How on earth do they do it?
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P-Jay said:
I've driven past their place in Swansea and it's VAST
It's run by some very clever stock management software and as someone has said it's not laid out 'logically' in the traditional sense, toys with toys, books with books etc - but laid out according to what fits where best. Some of the employees complain how hard it is - they walk dozen of miles a day and are at the mercy of hand-held computers that tell them where to go - they'd never find anything otherwise - but ultimately it's a decent days pay for a decent days work the exact type of entry-level work South Wales desperately needs.
There's 6 other distribution centres in the UK and lord only knows how many more worldwide - make no mistake Amazon is a BIG DEAL.
I work just down the road from it, it is HUGE.It's run by some very clever stock management software and as someone has said it's not laid out 'logically' in the traditional sense, toys with toys, books with books etc - but laid out according to what fits where best. Some of the employees complain how hard it is - they walk dozen of miles a day and are at the mercy of hand-held computers that tell them where to go - they'd never find anything otherwise - but ultimately it's a decent days pay for a decent days work the exact type of entry-level work South Wales desperately needs.
There's 6 other distribution centres in the UK and lord only knows how many more worldwide - make no mistake Amazon is a BIG DEAL.
Off topic but a popular wedding venue and spa is next door, the view just used to be over towards Swansea and the sandunes, now if you're in the bridal suite at the top you over look the depot
Owners probably weren't pleased when they found out it was going to be built!
http://www.thetowersswanseabay.com/
You can just see the tower through the trees and if you turn the camera around it looks straight at the building!
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=fabian+way&hl...
Baz Tench said:
O/T, but what is that film called? Is it the one where the robot is left on its own to tend to the planet at the end? If it's the one I'm thinking of, It used to make me cry as a kid 
, obviously I've got a goatee now....
Silent Running. Released a year after I was born in 1972, great film, obviously I've got a goatee now....http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Its not a planet but an ecosystem attached to a spaceship.
Cotty said:
Baz Tench said:
O/T, but what is that film called? Is it the one where the robot is left on its own to tend to the planet at the end? If it's the one I'm thinking of, It used to make me cry as a kid , obviously I've got a goatee now....
Silent Running. Released a year after I was born in 1972, great film, obviously I've got a goatee now....http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Its not a planet but an ecosystem attached to a spaceship.
Amazon is just a big warehouse with a few pickers, robots / computers, and van drivers.
If you can advertise, pay, pick, pack and ship 1 item, then you can do it for a billion items (same thing repeated over and over).
Roughly 80% of their items shipped are "small", under 5kg.
Amazon is an expert in logistics, but not so good on the finance side of things. Barely made a decent company profit in decades.
If you can advertise, pay, pick, pack and ship 1 item, then you can do it for a billion items (same thing repeated over and over).
Roughly 80% of their items shipped are "small", under 5kg.
Amazon is an expert in logistics, but not so good on the finance side of things. Barely made a decent company profit in decades.
Baz Tench said:
O/T, but what is that film called? Is it the one where the robot is left on its own to tend to the planet at the end? If it's the one I'm thinking of, It used to make me cry as a kid , obviously I've got a goatee now....
It's Silent Running. according to my mum, I was distraught and inconsolable when I first saw the film aged about 8. Tough to watch even now. , obviously I've got a goatee now....lamboman100 said:
Amazon is just a big warehouse with a few pickers, robots / computers, and van drivers.
If you can advertise, pay, pick, pack and ship 1 item, then you can do it for a billion items (same thing repeated over and over).
Roughly 80% of their items shipped are "small", under 5kg.
Amazon is an expert in logistics, but not so good on the finance side of things. Barely made a decent company profit in decades.
If they make a profit they have to pay tax.. If you can advertise, pay, pick, pack and ship 1 item, then you can do it for a billion items (same thing repeated over and over).
Roughly 80% of their items shipped are "small", under 5kg.
Amazon is an expert in logistics, but not so good on the finance side of things. Barely made a decent company profit in decades.
Baz Tench said:
Prand, I've just bought it off Amazon. It used to get me every time (used to be shown about twice a year on the telly in the 70's iirc). Fantastic film, and I can't wait to see it again tbh, hopefully I will hold up this time
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It will hold up, as long as you are not expecting it to be some CGI fest and accept it as a film of it time, its surprisingly good. .If you like it after re-watching is, I suggest you watch Moon http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/?ref_=nv_sr_4
Cotty said:
Baz Tench said:
Prand, I've just bought it off Amazon. It used to get me every time (used to be shown about twice a year on the telly in the 70's iirc). Fantastic film, and I can't wait to see it again tbh, hopefully I will hold up this time.
It will hold up, as long as you are not expecting it to be some CGI fest and accept it as a film of it time, its surprisingly good. .If you like it after re-watching is, I suggest you watch Moon http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/?ref_=nv_sr_4
Btw, I'm hoping that 'I' hold up, not the film...
Edited by Baz Tench on Monday 28th July 22:26
RobDickinson said:
lamboman100 said:
Amazon is just a big warehouse with a few pickers, robots / computers, and van drivers.
If you can advertise, pay, pick, pack and ship 1 item, then you can do it for a billion items (same thing repeated over and over).
Roughly 80% of their items shipped are "small", under 5kg.
Amazon is an expert in logistics, but not so good on the finance side of things. Barely made a decent company profit in decades.
If they make a profit they have to pay tax.. If you can advertise, pay, pick, pack and ship 1 item, then you can do it for a billion items (same thing repeated over and over).
Roughly 80% of their items shipped are "small", under 5kg.
Amazon is an expert in logistics, but not so good on the finance side of things. Barely made a decent company profit in decades.
If it were so, all stockmarket companies would be running ~1% margins.
Oakey said:
I've noticed that recently if you choose free delivery it takes them an age to dispatch your items. I ordered something recently on a Friday that was in stock, chose free delivery and it was the following Thursday they dispatched it and it arrived on the Friday. The cynical part of me says this is to get people to sign up to Prime as they never used to be this slow.
When I drove an orange Sprinter for a living, I made daily collections from Amazon in Glenrothes. There's two delivery systems, at 5 pm each evening I'd collect a van-full of priority, next-day or internationally addressed boxes and take them straight to the hub at the Gyle in Edinburgh, where they were sorted into vans going directly to each delivery base.
Everything else was loaded onto artics, which only left once full, and made their merry way to Hams Hall, waay down south, to be sorted and forwarded to local bases for delivery. This could take three working days.
Even if the box was being delivered a couple of miles away from the warehouse, it would have traveled hundreds of miles in a trailer.
sooperscoop said:
prand said:
It's Silent Running. according to my mum, I was distraught and inconsolable when I first saw the film aged about 8. Tough to watch even now.
I can't watch it. It makes me cry like a baby.
JPJPJP said:
According to Q2 results (posted last Thursday as it happens), the inventory value was $6,644,000,000 ($6.64bn) and they claim 9.4 inventory turns per 12 months
Its all here
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&...
That's what I wanted to know, 6.64 bn Its all here
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&...
GTIR said:
Can I assume that you and every other male (including me) saying they cried or will cry at the movie do so because of what happens at the end to the robot?
I never cried at the end, I didn't think it was sad. I thought it was a good/happy ending in which the forest was going to survive indefinately.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff