Optimization of packaging sizes
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorsHong Tian, Mackenzie Smith, Devesh Mishra
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Abstract
Various systems, methods, and programs embodied in computer-readable mediums are provided for determining sizes of packaging in a packaging suite employed in a materials handling environment. The packaging may be used, for example, in the shipping of items from the materials handling environment to various destinations. The sizes of the packaging in the packaging suite are determined based at least in part upon the three-dimensional bounding boxes associated with packages or shipments shipped or planned to be shipped from the materials handling environment.
Claims20
A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying at least one program executable in at least one computing device, the at least one program having instructions that perform a method comprising:
- receiving, by the at least one computing device, data describing a plurality of shipments, individual ones of the plurality of shipments corresponding to an item collection that has been shipped, or is planned to be shipped, in a single respective package from a materials handling environment;
- determining, by the at least one computing device, for the individual ones of the plurality of shipments, a corresponding one of a plurality of three-dimensional bounding boxes, wherein the corresponding one of the plurality of three-dimensional bounding boxes encloses the corresponding item collection;
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- generating, by the at least one computing device, a packaging suite from the plurality of three-dimensional bounding boxes determined for the plurality of shipments, the packaging suite specifying a plurality of different sizes of packaging that are to be employed in the materials handling environment for future shipments originating from the materials handling environment.
A system, comprising:
- at least one computing device configured to perform a method comprising:
- receiving, by the at least one computing device, data describing a plurality of three-dimensional bounding boxes, individual ones of the plurality of three-dimensional bounding boxes enclosing a corresponding one of a plurality of item collections that has been shipped, or is planned to be shipped, to a single respective customer from a materials handling environment;
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- determining, by the at least one computing device, a packaging suite from the plurality of three-dimensional bounding boxes, the packaging suite specifying a plurality of different sizes of packaging that are to be employed in the materials handling environment for future shipments originating from the materials handling environment.
A method, comprising:
- receiving, via at least one computing device, data describing a plurality of three-dimensional bounding boxes, individual ones of the plurality of three-dimensional bounding boxes enclosing a corresponding one of a plurality of item collections that has been shipped, or is planned to be shipped, to a single respective customer from a materials handling environment;
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- determining, via the at least one computing device, a plurality of different sizes of packaging that are to be employed in the materials handling environment for future shipments originating from the materials handling environment, the plurality of different sizes of packaging being determined based at least in part on the plurality of three-dimensional bounding boxes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.