Inside Newegg NJ: A New Warehouse and Another Contest
by Anand Lal Shimpi on May 20, 2008 12:00 PM EST- Posted in
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How a Bill Becomes a L...err, How an Order Becomes a Tote
If Newegg's warehouse had a pulse it'd be a scary thing, as the system is unbelievably self-aware. The warehouse holds around 20,000 unique products and it is aware of the location and quantities of each and every one of them.
This tote is someone's order, I didn't tinker with it
Totes galore
There are tons of red totes that are constantly traveling through the warehouse on automated conveyor belts. They will keep circling until one of them is needed. When an order comes in from the website and is cleared for processing it is assigned to a tote; the order and the tote are married and are only separated once the order is boxed and ready to be shipped.
The totes run by these barcode scanners constantly, they monitor the contents of the tote and the order, if the order isn't complete it keeps getting routed through the warehouse until every last item is in there.
The tote is routed to various locations in the warehouse and filled by hand before being sent back out the conveyor system. The actual filling of the tote is done manually, but tracking the tote and deciding where it has to go is entirely automated. The warehouse knows where to send the totes and it can even detect traffic jams and slow totes down if need be.
Speedy totes
The entire system is optimized so that if the product is in stock in the warehouse closest to you, and your order is placed by 2PM EST, it will ship out that same day. Thanks to careful placement of these warehouses, you should be able to get what you ordered within a couple of days without having to pay for more expensive shipping. It's good to see that Newegg's goal of optimizing for ground shipping is still top priority.
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Darkk - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - link
For those who are cringing about bubble wrap and peanuts for OEM hard drives. Well, when I ordered a hard drive a few months ago the drive was shipped from the CA warehouse and they didn't use either packaging at all. Instead, they used special "wadded" heavy duty paper wrapping which is very sturdy and it arrived perfectly intact. Not sure why they didn't do this at all warehouses but it was perfect for the drives. Also very friendly to the environment.I've ordered alot of items from NewEgg over the years and most of them usually come from NJ or CA warehouse since I live in northern CA.
Darkk
puffpio - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - link
you wouldn't happen to have a picture of the boxing machine? that thing looks like it boxes super fastpuffpio - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - link
err picture = videoMScrip - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - link
I love your warehouse... but 2 things made me cringe in those pictures; the bubble wrap and the peanuts. I'm speaking of course about the way you ship OEM hard drives.Newegg! You're a BILLION dollar company! Please invest in some foam or plastic hard drive carriers! It makes me sick to order an OEM hard drive and have it taped up in bubble wrap and thrown in a box with some peanuts. That's ridiculous.
I buy everything from you, but I am so unhappy with your hard drive shipping policies.
strikeback03 - Thursday, May 22, 2008 - link
Why? Every hard drive I have bought from them has had a anti-static bag or plastic case from the manufacturer, the bubblewrap is just around that. Don't see any risk there, so long as you don't open the hard drive and drop it in the peanuts.m3rdpwr - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - link
I did not know about the NJ depot.Usually I get my order in 3 days being in Mass.
My order last week arrived next day.
This would explain it!
-Mario
laixer - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - link
I'm in NY and most of the stuff I have been ordering has come from NJ for a long time.I'm really disappointed that the contest is not open to New York residents.
H8ff0000 - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - link
Same here, on both statements...Newegg is awesome, this contest is not. I'm curious why we are shun from the giveaway.
AmbroseAthan - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - link
We are shunned from all NewEgg contests :(. Any give-away contests at NewEgg have always had New York exempted. Must be something in the state laws :-/.Polynikes - Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - link
Another of many strikes against NY. I'm getting the hell out of this shitty state as soon as I graduate from RIT.