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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2014
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Fnu Arun Singhal, Bellevue, WA (US);
Nathan Stanley Burkhart, Seattle, WA (US);
Vikas Agarwal, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael Ellsworth Bundy, Seattle, WA (US);
Pavlo Korohod, Kirkland, WA (US);
Vidhi Vinodkumar Bhagdev, Seattle, WA (US);
Steven Simons Armato, Seattle, WA (US);
Ngochan Thi Nguyen, Renton, WA (US);
Maxim Kormilitsin, Seattle, WA (US);
Paul Jeffrey Stroup, Seattle, WA (US);
Kalyanaraman Prasad, Sammamish, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
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.