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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2013
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Denis Bellavance, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael Cy Wu, Seattle, WA (US);
Robert James Wilson, Seattle, WA (US);
Bryan Michael Psimas, Seattle, WA (US);
Mona Mehrandish, Seattle, WA (US);
Jacob Marshall Austin, Seattle, WA (US);
Salman Hamid Ali, Toronto, CA;
Nishant Singh, Seattle, WA (US);
Fnu Arun Singhal, Bellevue, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
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.