{"id":293,"date":"2007-01-11T14:48:36","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T21:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/293\/amazon-com-2006-holiday-performance"},"modified":"2022-05-02T18:14:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T23:14:39","slug":"amazon-com-2006-holiday-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/amazon-com-2006-holiday-performance\/293\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Packages Shipped Per Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a296a24fa2fc69ef5487857f02f111e8\" data-index=\"9\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Single Post readerboard -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8207522353004717\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1144967431\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Peak Season at Amazon is crazy, fun, and exciting. That is a time when &#8220;<a title=\"amazon fulfillment centers video tour\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/15-amazon-fulfillment-center-videos\/5520\/\">all hands on deck<\/a>&#8221; really comes into play and everybody is pitching in to help. It&#8217;s also a time that really tests the amazon <a title=\"shmula.com, amazon.com, click-to-ship\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/click-to-ship-delivery-process-times\/175\/\">click-to-ship<\/a> system and overall <a title=\"shmula.com, amazon.com, operations, lean, six sigma\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/operations\/\">Operations<\/a>, to make sure that product flows from warehouses to the customer in a seamless, high-velocity, and defect-free way.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon has 2 peak seasons: (1) inbound peak and (2) outbound peak.<\/p>\n<p>Inbound peak is Amazon&#8217;s buying spree from its suppliers. The key piece here is the Sales and Operations Plan (S&amp;OP) that gets published internally and is disseminated to Operations. This report attempts to show the predicted high-demand SKU&#8217;s (ASIN&#8217;s) and the amount that ought to be purchased. Inbound peak begins around August and ends roughly around September or October. At this time, all labor and budgeted hours is shifted to the inbound side of things.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of an Amazon facility, during inbound peak:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9882\" title=\"amazon-warehouse-supply-chain\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/amazon-warehouse-supply-chain.jpg\" alt=\"amazon holiday season warehouse supply chain\" width=\"500\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/amazon-warehouse-supply-chain.jpg 500w, https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/amazon-warehouse-supply-chain-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Outbound peak typically happens at week 45, or close to Thanksgiving. This is when labor and budgeted hours are shifted to the outbound side of things. This is the time when Amazon makes most of their revenue during the year and there&#8217;s a lot of pressure to deliver and meet customer expectations. It&#8217;s an exciting time and a time and everyone at Amazon feels like they are making history.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon apparently did very, very well this year in fulfilling customer orders. Below is a small snapshot of what the 2006 Holiday Season looked like for Amazon:<a title=\"shmula.com, amazon.com, peak season, Christmas\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/peak_season.png\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/peak_season.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"552\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/peak_season.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"926\" height=\"526\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-31342 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/peak_season.png 926w, https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/peak_season-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/peak_season-768x436.png 768w, https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/peak_season-600x341.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 926px) 100vw, 926px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The above chart is just a sample of the units being shipped by Amazon. Multiply the above numbers by 13+ fulfillment centers and also drop-shippers; the amount of volume that Amazon deals with is amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon&#8217;s focus on Customer Obsession remains a tenet that remains with me to this day. Amazon.com is an amazing company, doing incredible things, and making history. It has its problems but, for me, Amazon.com remains a company to be admired.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peak Season at Amazon is crazy, fun, and exciting. That is a time when &#8220;all hands on deck&#8221; really comes into play and everybody is pitching in to help. 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