Warehousing
topic on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
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3 statements about Warehousing, every show
Hay: Warehouse ownership costs dropped around 2020, reducing data team size needs
“The thing about it, though, that I think really changed around 2020 is that the cost of ownership of warehousing became much cheaper. And so, twenty-twenty-one, you start getting the place where, like, yeah, it actually makes a lot of sense and is really easy …”
Puri: Reverse logistics requires a different skill set than traditional warehousing
“Cause usually what makes you good at processing returns is not the same thing as what gets you good at like warehouse, a general warehouse with a bunch of pallets and boxes and shipping orders out. It's like, takes like a different skill set in a way.”
Amazon transforms warehouse labor into a specialized object-recognition production line
“Effectively, you've turned warehousing into a production line. Those same principles of specialization. What's a specialization? A specialization here is recognize object and grasp it. It's not walk 20 miles a day.”