Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Mark Bosley

Chad Zagar

Michael John Canty

Jayson Michael Jochim

Neil Scott Ackerman

Sivan Almosnino

Ingrid Rivera

Daniel Jeffry Frank

Christopher Frederic Lobo

Balaji Nageswaran

James Dore′ Emmitt

Adrian Dsouza

Nihar Shashank Nabar

Rohit Kumar Nathany

Ashwin Philip Ollapally

Austin Paul Koehler

Kevin Rothermel

Yunior Ricardo Licea Rosales

Sumit Bhangdiya

Robert P Roller

Bijal Satish Mehta

A method of sorting a first subset of items in an order handling center, wherein at least a majority of the items of the first subset are sized below a predetermined size limit. The method includes directing the first subset of the items through an opening into a bag having a plurality of panels of flexible material coupled together at a plurality of seams. The method includes causing the bag to assume a substantially cuboid shape as the bag is filled to capacity with the first subset of items and stacking the bag on a pallet at a staging destination within the order handling center. The staging destination is associated with a delivery route from the order handling center.

Conveyable sortation bag

In one embodiment, a package sorting system has a sorting module that has a sorting station, an infeed conveyor, and first and second pairs of outfeed conveyors. The sorting station has a front end, a rear end, and first and second sides. The infeed conveyor conveys packages from an infeed end to the front end along a rearward direction. The first pair has first and second outfeed conveyors that adjoin the first side and that convey packages away from one another along the rearward and frontward directions, respectively. The second pair has third and fourth outfeed conveyors that adjoin the second side and that convey packages away from one another along the rearward and frontward directions, respectively. In operation, a person or machine at the sorting station receives incoming packages from the infeed conveyor and selectively places each package on one of the first, second, third, and fourth outfeed conveyors.

Package sorting module, system, and method of using the same

Disclosed are various embodiments for performing a consolidated pick and package process in a materials handling center. A computing environment may be employed to generate a batch of a plurality of items to be picked and packaged in fulfillment of a plurality of orders in the materials handling center. Shipping labels corresponding to items in the orders may be generated, wherein the shipping labels comprise pick information that aids a person in locating a corresponding one of the items in the materials handling center and packaging the corresponding one of the items in suitable packaging. A fulfillment cart may be employed by an operator in performing the consolidated pick and package process.

Consolidated pick and pack for outbound fulfillment

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

Mark Bosley