Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Fnu Arun Singhal

Michael Ellsworth Bundy

Steven Simons Armato

Kalyanaraman Prasad

Nathan Stanley Burkhart

Maxim Kormilitsin

Nishant Singh

Robert James Wilson

Paul Jeffrey Stroup

Vikas Agarwal

Denis Bellavance

Michael Cy Wu

Salman Hamid Ali

Ngochan Thi Nguyen

Pavlo Korohod

Bryan Michael Psimas

Mona Mehrandish

Vidhi Vinodkumar Bhagdev

Jacob Marshall Austin

Systems and methods may be provided for determining, assigning and directing containers for transshipment between facilities without using an item-level sortation process and moving containers from a receiving area of a facility to an outbound dock without placing the items into inventory. A facility may or may not have item-level sortation processing. Data indicating received items is received. A determination is made for which of the received containers are for transshipment from the materials handling facility based on multiple factors. Containers in receiving that are determined for transshipment may be directed from receive to outbound docks without placing the items into inventory and without using an item-level sortation process. Pallets may be transshipped without placing the items into inventory and without depalletization. A facility with sortation may switch from item-level sortation of transshipments to container-level crossdock transshipment when a sortation process of a processing line approaches or exceeds capacity.

Crossdocking transshipments without sortation

Disclosed are various embodiments for consolidating multiple pickings of an item to fulfill multiple shipments into a single picking of the multiple items. A determination is first made whether a metric representing a plurality of shipments exceeds a threshold, wherein individual ones of the plurality of shipments are mapped to corresponding ones of a plurality of item locations in a fulfillment center. The plurality of shipments are then remapped to an individual one of the plurality of item locations in response to a determination that the metric exceeds the threshold. Finally, a picking of the items is initiated.

Opportunistically consolidated picking

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Fnu Arun Singhal