how is it that i can order a raggedy old used book from some warehouse in kentucky and amazon can provide all kinda of tracking information but our inventory/order/customer platforms seem so out of sync??? and for the positions that they are trying to automate does it seem like we are spending way more labor now with scans and studies of scans??? and why no up to the minute item movement reports?? dear amazon overlords please chime in here.....
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You have no choice to collect data that is your job now. A computer should be able to do a better job than a human if it purely based on numbers and calculations. If inventory is up-to-date and shrink is being properly scanned out the system should be able figure out what is needed once the time comes. It has happened in most industries if you don't need somebody physically to use there hands it can most likely be automated.
Produce depts have to do multiple amazon out of stock scans,two pam/out of stock scans,floral scans,spoilage scans,temps on gleason phones...lotta labor on a daily basis for things that could be automatic or monitered by computer systems
SSS does daily price audit scans, the prime shoppers do daily out of stock scans on an iphone, leadership does a different oos scan on a honeywell, tls do a scanogram scan, buyers do a in stock scan, inventory scans one a month...its nuts.
What positions are they trying to automate? Walmart tried robot scanning for its aisles and that has been abandoned.