The grid offers a dense storage system that maximises space utilisation in the warehouse. They travel at four metres a second and can pick and pack a full customer order be in five minutes – many times faster than if done by humans. Running three million routing calculations a second, the system directs the robots around the grid. The grid houses 250,000 storage locations, and the robots pick crates from this grid and take them to stations where they are assembled by packers into the customer orders.
The facility went live in December 2016 and features up to 1,100 robots working on a grid roughly the size of a football pitch. The OSP is an advanced storage and automated picking system used at one of the company’s customer fulfilment centres (CFCs) at Andover, in Hampshire. Whilst the Smart Platform seeks to revolutionise the grocery industry through the use of artificial intelligence, AmazonFresh is reshaping the consumer picking process by establishing itself as the online supermarket delivering fresh food at the customer’s convenience. This comes thanks to solutions such as AmazonFresh and the Ocado Smart Platform (OSP). You have three calendar days to pick up your package from an Amazon Locker.Continuing our series of posts on logistics digital disruption, we turn attention now to disruption in the grocery market and how the buying experience is changing for consumers. How long does Amazon Locker hold your item?
If your order is ineligible, then you will not be able to choose the Amazon Locker pickup option at checkout. View the full list of eligibility requirements. For example, the product must weigh less than 10 pounds, have dimensions of less than 16 x 12 x 14 inches, and be sold or fulfilled by Amazon. Keep in mind not all items are available for Amazon Locker pickup. Visit the locker, pick up your package, and you’re done. You may need a code, barcode, or the Amazon Shopping app to open the locker. The email will contain simple instructions for how to open your locker and retrieve your package. Then, wait for the delivery confirmation sent to your email.
When you check out your cart, make sure you’ve picked the Amazon Locker location. Alternatively, visit “Your Addresses” in your Amazon account and add the Amazon Locker location to your address book from there. The page also contains operating hours and directions to find the locker. You can search by address or zip code to find a pickup location near you and then add it to your address book. Getting set up on Amazon Locker takes just a few steps.įirst, choose an Amazon Locker location near you.
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