Earth’s Biggest Selection

Prepared By:
Amr Ahmed Moheb
Mohamed Mahmoud Gaddafi
 OUTLINE
• History of amazon.com
• Activities
• Types of items
• Warehouse layout
• Equipments
• Accessories
• Operations
 History
• Jeff Bezos founded amazon.com in 1994
• His garage was his only warehouse
• Started as a book web store, then added CDs
and movies in 1998, and then added a lot of
different items
• in 2008, the website attracted at least 615
million visitors, twice the number of
walmart.com
• Amazon net income in 2009 was 902 million
 Activities
• Online shopping site
• A large warehouse, providing millions
of products of different suppliers
through the web, and deliver these
products to the customers
• A link between suppliers and
customers, and between customers and
customers
 Types of items
• Books
• Movies, Musics, and Games
• Digital downloads (books, musics, etc - no physical warehouse)
• Kindle (and it’s related digital materials)
• Computers and Offices
• Electronics
• Home, Garden, and Bets
• Grocery, Health, and Beauty
• Toys, Kids, and Babies
• Clothing, Shoes, and jewelry
• Sports and Outdoors
• Tools and Home improvement
• Automative and industrial
Types of items
 Warehouses Layout
• Landscape envelope building
• Super flat floors + Usage of slabs
• Large windows to reduce the need for
electricity in day time
• Not very high shelves
• Medium to small spaces between shelves
• Big doors
• Fire protection
 Equipments

• Labor workforce

• Forklifts

• Conveyer belts

• Scanner guns
Storage Accessories

• Shelves

• Totes

• Trolleys
 Operations

Handling Handling and

Invoicing
Receiving packing and gift
and issuing
Storage wrapping
Operations
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