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Amazon Fulfilment Center: - 6 Different Types of Amazon Warehouses

Amazon has 6 types of warehouses including sortable, non-sortable, and specialty warehouses that handle different item categories. The warehouses also use Kiva robots for automated warehouse operations - the Kiva robots carry storage shelves to assist workers with stowing and picking items in a way that reduces fulfillment costs by up to 40%.

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Amazon Fulfilment Center: - 6 Different Types of Amazon Warehouses

Amazon has 6 types of warehouses including sortable, non-sortable, and specialty warehouses that handle different item categories. The warehouses also use Kiva robots for automated warehouse operations - the Kiva robots carry storage shelves to assist workers with stowing and picking items in a way that reduces fulfillment costs by up to 40%.

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  • Amazon Fulfillment Center Overview: Introduces Amazon's different types of warehouses, detailing each type's function and specialty within fulfillment processes.
  • Amazon Robotics: KIVA System: Explains the KIVA system as a battery-powered robotic solution for warehouse automation, emphasizing its efficiency and modern technology.
  • Amazon Fulfillment Center Layout: Provides a diagrammatic layout of an Amazon Fulfillment Center, illustrating the operational flow and zones dedicated to different tasks.

Amazon Fulfilment Center

• 6 different types of Amazon warehouses


1. Sortable:- items that can be sorted and packed easily
2. Non-Sortable:- large sized items such as furniture, outdoor equipments etc.,
3. Sortation Center:- where customer orders arrive in bulk and are repacked for
individual customers
4. Receive Center:- where receive large quantities of goods from suppliers and
distribute them across the fulfillment center network
5. Delivery stations:- prepare orders for the last mile, although the majority of
orders comes from fulfillment centers directly
6. Specialty:- handle items that does not fit the above categories, and also
provide support during peak seasons.

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• Amazon Robotics( KIVA System)
 KIVA system robotic unit is a battery powered robots
specially designed to provides Complete Warehouse
Automation Solution
 It is used to store, move and sort all items in the
warehouse.
 KIVA system robot army is run by a game changing
automation technology that helps companies to
simplify its operation task and reduce the costs
 It is estimated that the Kiva robots reduce the
fulfillment cost by 40%.
 A Kiva is a small orange robot about 30cm high and
weighing around 130kg and it can lift storage shelves
(called pods) of up to 340kg.
 These small Kiva robots carry these specialized shelves
to the stowers and pickers for them to add or remove
items to/from the pods.
 Kivas know their location primarily from 2D data codes
that are attached to the floor at regular intervals.

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Amazon Fulfillment Center Layout

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