Amazon is an eight-ton gorilla that animal health pros watch, fear; yet use for personal purchases. Sara Kessler writes about the company’s elaborate systems that have completely redefined warehouse efficiency and customer convenience. Much of the efficiency is supported by technology, robotics and ultimately moving product to people, rather than moving people to the products to be shipped.
Source: Quartz.
What makes Amazon’s warehouses work is the way they organize inventory: with complete randomness. The reason it makes sense to group these random products together has everything to do with technology: the speed and frequency with which customers order online, and the tools that Amazon has developed to keep track of every item in its vast warehouses.
INSIGHTS: We share this to help animal health pros understand the efficiencies of this beast. Amazon is constructed to serve fickle, inefficient customers at the last minute. But, also remember we’ve been in the two-day distribution business for decades. Animal health distribution can remain efficient IF the replenishment process is structured, managed and maintained.
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