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Imagine a demon supervising the people and bots picking items for an Amazon order. If any of them pick an item from a bin also containing inventory from anothe
by tomjakubowski 7y ago
Imagine a demon supervising the people and bots picking items for an Amazon order. If any of them pick an item from a bin also containing inventory from another seller (commingling), the demon puts the item back and removes it from the order.
I would like Amazon to, effectively, offer that demon as an option, to guarantee the provenance of an order's items. Of course, it might work better to filter commingled items out at search time, if that's possible, or put a big warning banner up on the product or order page when you might get your item from another seller's inventory.
- cameronbrown 7y agoThat would be almost every item.
- PKop 7y agoThink of how many layers of both the fulfillment logistics, supply chain, and actual tech stack have to be modified/re-imagined to achieve this. They should move this way, but it is extremely complicated & expensive. The difference between 1 fungible pile of a good spread out everywhere, and multiple distinct piles is enormous.