Comparison: An Example Of The Warehouse Management System In The Amazon

Examples
The example of companies that have practiced the warehouse management system are Amazon.com, DHL and Walmart.
For the Amazon.com, it is an international eCommerce company. It is the world’s largest online retailer. Amazon sells the books, movies, music and games along with electronics, toys, apparel, sports, tools, groceries and general home and garden products. The company has plenty of warehouse in the United States and Canada. So, in each of the warehouse, the company has employed hundreds of employees. The employees are assigned to handle the some tasks, which are unpacking and inspecting incoming goods, placing goods in storage and recording location, picking goods from their computer recorded location and shipping. Amazon also has used some system to manage their warehouse, which are SkuVault and Kiva system.
SkuVault is a cloud-based warehouse management system. It can help to automatically reflect the actual physical quantities in the warehouse. It can be used to integrate the platform, which include the pull all orders and product data, push real-time quantity updates and

It is used to help with both of the suppliers and customers to manage the ordering process. It can help to control the availability and flow of goods to become more accurate. Walmart has used this system because it can benefit both of the suppliers and customers. To benefits the suppliers, this system may help to maintain the predetermined inventory and avoiding the problem, such as stock outs. Then, for customers, it shows that it may help to reduce uncertainty. This system will help the supplier to prepare and schedule its own production, in order to exhaust of inventory. Manufacturers became responsible for managing their products in Walmart’s warehouses. So, by using this vendor managed inventory, it shows that Walmart was able to expect close to 100% of order fulfillment on